CAO offers: Major effort to minimise use of random selection
Minister for Education Norma Foley announced in April that there will be no change from last year, with grades to stay at the same level
Minister for Education Norma Foley announced in April that there will be no change from last year, with grades to stay at the same level
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Minister for Education says exam authorities will ‘give an opportunity for students to return to pre-Covid levels’
Joy at getting high grades may be short lived for some when they access their CAO offers next Wednesday
Almost 61,000 students receiving their exam results from 10am on Friday
Leaving Cert and Junior Cert exam oversight body paid out €60,000 in a legal settlement, accounts show
Timeline of this year’s Leaving Certificate results, with dates and deadlines for viewing exam scripts, appealing subjects and CAO offers
‘Gradual’ return to normal Leaving Cert results without ‘postmarking adjustment’ to begin next year
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A transition year student’s award-winning investigation has shone a light on readability issues for many sitting Junior Cycle maths papers
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Norma Foley ‘deferred’ school-based assessments last year, citing need to research impact of artificial intelligence
Representatives had called for return to term-time assessments to give candidates a ‘much-needed break’
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Students and teachers want return to term-time to give candidates a ‘much-needed break’
Those achieving highest grades must demonstrate ‘high level of mastery’ of knowledge, understanding and skills
Junior Cert: Signs of positive shift in teaching and learning, but concerns voiced over student stress and workload
Bolstered supply of examiners facilitates results being issued a month earlier than last year
Teachers will need to monitor coursework to be able to verify it is candidates’ own work, says State Examinations Commission
More than 100 students who secured enough CAO points for their preferred courses are told their programmes are oversubscribed
Latest AI learning tools don’t just offer answers, they prompt students to figure things out for themselves
Norma Foley had proposed that 40% of students’ work would be assessed by teachers
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Revised subjects - including biology, physics, chemistry and business - will include externally assessed project work or practicals
Biology, chemistry, physics will have a greater emphasis on externally assessed project work and practicals
Minister for Education Norma Foley requests report on challenges technology poses to 'fair' assessments of students in the Junior and Leaving Cert exams
Minister for Education says move to keep grades at record-high level of recent years was out of ‘fairness’ to students
Maths paper one exam drew heavy criticism for being excessively hard and unfair
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Marks artificially lifted by almost 8% following direction from Norma Foley out of ‘fairness’ for students
Timeline of this year’s Leaving Certificate results, with dates and deadlines for viewing exam scripts, appealing subjects and CAO offers
T’he variety of topics and skills tested allowed students to select answers that played to their skill set’
Candidates with Covid may access deferred sitting, while those with a runny nose advised to attend
Move follows confirmation earlier this week that Leaving Cert results will issue a week earlier than last year
Recruits required to be available for 26 days of full-time work over summer
Move sparked controversy among teachers who criticised it as ‘educationally unsound’
Students and teachers are now united in opposing rushed plans that would create more problems than they would solve
‘A real gap in perception’ about what accountants do is contributing to a ‘talent pipeline problem’, says Chartered Accountants Ireland president
All incoming first-year students are included, no matter what year they sat the Leaving Cert
Number of Junior Cycle examiners down 38 per cent on a decade ago
Norma Foley says shortage of teachers correcting exams a key factor behind delayed release date for Junior Cycle results
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