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.

Teachers could lose up to 5 per cent of pay due under public service deals if they fail to co-operate with controversial Leaving Cert reforms, second-level teaching unions have been warned.

"This is a Leaving Certificate subject as valuable and as important as any other and you can get just as many CAO points," she said. Teachers Clare O’Brien and Maree Murphy will teach the new ...

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 ...

Study Hub 2025 guest Andrew Cussen is here with some great tips and free notes to help Leaving Cert Biology students. Having returned from Melbourne he took up a role as a Maths and Biology ...

Post primary teachers are to be balloted for industrial action if talks with the Government over Leaving Cert reform do not achieve "an acceptable outcome". On Tuesday an emergency motion on the ...

It’s just 13 weeks since Helen McEntee was appointed Educa­tion Minister. In that short time, the “S” word has already lodged firmly on her desk, with the Association of Secondary Teachers ...

TEACHERS are considering industrial action in a bid to push the government to act on concerns about proposed reforms to the Leaving Certificate. The final set of exams in secondary school - the ...

Education Minister Helen McEntee will update Cabinet this morning on starting major changes to the Leaving Certificate. The significant reforms from the next academic year will see 40 per cent of ...

On the morning of the final two exams, I woke up with a heavy cold, a sense of dread and, barely able to keep my eyes open, hauled my groggy self to school. I have no idea what I wrote, or how I ...

The new reforms, the most significant seen to the Leaving Cert schedule in more than a century, will see a fundamental move in emphasis away from written exams, with a minimum of 40% of marks for ...

Brónagh English, a Leaving Cert student who died when the car she was driving hit a wall and entered a river in Co Tipperary on Thursday night, is to be laid to rest on Tuesday. Tributes are ...