State Examinations Commission (SEC)

There are risk with the use of AI in education, but it also has huge potential to improve teaching and learning

Daniel Murphy says he would have gotten stuck ‘behind silage traffic’ when taking route to Kells suggested by State Examinations Commission

Teachers' conference hears State regulator is aware of more predators using social media to extort children

A transition year student’s award-winning investigation has shone a light on readability issues for many sitting Junior Cycle maths papers

Lauren Lynch ‘ended up in a class for students who teachers didn’t want to teach’ and says too many pupils labelled ‘stupid’ for disability

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’

It is important to understand the component parts: there are two key numbers associated with each school listed.

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

Bolstered supply of examiners facilitates results being issued a month earlier than last year

Junior Cert: Signs of positive shift in teaching and learning, but concerns voiced over student stress and workload

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

Problems facing Norma Foley show end of school exams so deeply embedded in education system that reform is far easier said than done

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

Marks artificially lifted by almost 8% following direction from Norma Foley out of ‘fairness’ for students

How slowly can grades fall back without negatively affecting current year students?

Maths paper one exam drew heavy criticism for being excessively hard and unfair

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

Shortage of teachers willing to work as examiners among the factors behind delay