Parents furious that around 10,000 students with inflated grades who deferred will have a greater advantage over current pupils set to sit exam Thousands of Leaving Cert deferrers with inflated ...

Fifth year students will begin studying the revised curriculum for accounting; construction studies; engineering; English; geography; PE; and LCVP (Leaving Cert Vocational Programme) link modules.

She said that grade inflation has caused Leaving Cert points to “lose their credibility” and has given a quarter of CAO applicants “a massive advantage” over the class of 2025. Writing in ...

Leaving Cert reforms are being rushed by the Government and schools do not have the capacity to implement the necessary changes in an effective manner, teachers have maintained. The Association of ...

Teachers’ unions have been told by the minister for education that changes to the Leaving Cert will proceed as planned from this September. Concerns around the incoming changes have prompted ...

This year's Leaving Certificate results will be released on Friday, 22 August, the State Examinations Commission has announced. The SEC said this is in line with the date of issue of the results ...

Higher grades means higher points. Last year, the 61,000 students who sat their Leaving Cert saw their grades boosted by an average of 7.5pc. But some didn’t get the place they wanted or got ...

PEOPLE BEFORE PROFIT TD Paul Murphy is calling for a major overhaul of the current Leaving Cert exam, proposing to “get rid ...

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A judge has directed that a secondary school student who assaulted a man in his 60s at a protest against a rumoured new accommodation centre for asylum seekers bring his forthcoming Leaving Cert ...

The State Examinations Commission has published sample examination papers for the seven revised Leaving Certificate subjects due to be introduced in schools next September. It has also published ...