Income data for thousands of students receiving grants is ‘incomplete’Half of 18 and 19-year-olds in higher and further education in receipt of Susi grantsTue Oct 06 2020 - 18:31
Up to 450 CAO offers will be sent to upgraded Leaving Cert students on ThursdayCalls to reveal how many students lost college places due to high grades issued in errorMon Oct 05 2020 - 13:11
Moving to Level 5 Covid-19 restrictions ‘a no-brainer’, says specialistTeaching unions seek review on whether it is safe for schools to stay open amid rise in casesMon Oct 05 2020 - 09:55
Almost 8,000 higher Leaving Cert grades issued in errorConcern that high grades ‘squeezed out’ some students from their CAO choicesMon Oct 05 2020 - 02:50
Leaving Cert Q&A: How exactly did errors hurt student grades?It may not prove possible to take up new CAO offers for certain very high-demand coursesSun Oct 04 2020 - 21:23
Review into Leaving Cert errors focused on a ‘sample’ of codingDisclosure prompts calls for a full inquiry to establish if there are further errorsSun Oct 04 2020 - 19:35
Schools in south Dublin among the most oversubscribed in the countryHigh-achieving schools forced to turn away hundreds of applicants each yearSat Oct 03 2020 - 02:50
Parents voice fears over end to sibling-first school admissionsThe archdiocese of Dublin says the policy is aimed at making schools more inclusiveSat Oct 03 2020 - 01:52
Waiting game for students as review into grading gets under wayAbout 6,500 students awarded grades lower than they should have received, says MinisterFri Oct 02 2020 - 21:13
Firm linked to errors in Leaving Cert results paid €163,000Department of Education made payment to Canadian company without tendering processFri Oct 02 2020 - 02:03
Leaving Cert Q&A: Could there be further errors in coding process?Independent firm currently conducting rechecks of calculated grades systemThu Oct 01 2020 - 21:11
Colleges may have to create 1,000 extra places after Leaving Cert errorsNumber affected by coding mistake in grade calculations will not be known for daysThu Oct 01 2020 - 01:06
Leaving Cert Q&A: How did the errors happen and will students get new CAO offers?Anywhere from a few hundred to 1,000 new college places may be needed, writes Carl O’BrienWed Sept 30 2020 - 20:55
Leaving Cert: 6,500 students awarded lower grade due to code errorsGovernment will work with colleges to give places to those who missed outWed Sept 30 2020 - 17:25
Scale of errors in Leaving Cert results rocks confidence in integrity of systemDisclosure will further raise anxiety among studentsWed Sept 30 2020 - 16:02
Many secondary students lack access to online learning amid Covid-19 pandemicOECD report highlights education disparities between Irish schools and other developed nationsTue Sept 29 2020 - 16:05
Schools fear losing teachers due to Covid-linked pupil absencesAnnual school census due Wednesday will determine staffing numbers for next yearTue Sept 29 2020 - 01:00
Almost 100 Leaving Cert students had six or more subject grades loweredApplications to sit the Leaving Certificate 2020 in November open this morningMon Sept 28 2020 - 07:39
Third level students urged to consider if they need rented accommodationColleges warn students that breaches of Covid-19 regulations may lead to expulsionMon Sept 28 2020 - 07:29
Leaving Cert students to get access to ‘highly sensitive’ class rankings from MondayTeachers’ unions concerned about releasing information to all students onlineTue Sept 22 2020 - 18:35
Removal of school profiling may have affected ‘accuracy’ of Leaving Cert results, study saysSome high-achieving schools have said students’ results suffered by taking out key dataSat Sept 19 2020 - 01:51
Thousands of third level students in Dublin to have limited access to college campusesSocial and club activities to be suspended until further noticeFri Sept 18 2020 - 15:57
Covid-19: Thirteen outbreaks in schools since early SeptemberTeachers’ union says delays getting test results are severely disrupting schoolsThu Sept 17 2020 - 16:51
Leaving Cert: How to access your class ranking informationStudents are legally entitled to obtain data by making ‘subject access requests’Thu Sept 17 2020 - 14:06
More than 12,000 Leaving Cert students appeal calculated gradesRecord rechecks follow controversy over extent to which some results downgradedWed Sept 16 2020 - 20:14
‘My parents are super-proud’: Dublin-based student name-dropped by von der Leyen18-year-old Syrian refugee and medical student hopes her story will inspire othersWed Sept 16 2020 - 19:59
School Covid-19 safety check results will not be shared with parentsInspectors to begin visiting schools to ensure safe and sustainable reopeningWed Sept 16 2020 - 02:06
Catholic schools say they are powerless in bid to end ‘sibling-first’ admissionsDublin Archdiocese asks schools to remove priority enrolment policy for siblingsMon Sept 14 2020 - 21:37
Catholic primary schools in Dublin to end ‘sibling-first’ enrolment policiesArchdiocese asks schools to remove priority entry for brothers and sisters of existing pupilsMon Sept 14 2020 - 01:06
Lawyers expect flurry of legal actions after release of teachers’ estimated gradesLeaving Cert students will have access to their school’s estimated marks from MondayMon Sept 14 2020 - 01:00
Calculated grades process: Agent of warped bias or great leveller?Schools of different types experience varied effects of 2020 Leaving Cert replacementMon Sept 14 2020 - 01:00
NUI Galway drops ‘behave responsibly’ pledge requirement‘Community promise’ no longer mandatory for students registering for academic yearSun Sept 13 2020 - 19:14
Universities to limit student deferrals amid fears many will want to take gap yearConcerns many college applicants may seek to defer due to Covid-19Sat Sept 12 2020 - 01:00
CAO points climb to record high across many coursesSeven courses break the 600 point barrierFri Sept 11 2020 - 21:25
Five takeaways from this year’s CAO resultsGrade inflation made points jump but extra places stopped them going through roofFri Sept 11 2020 - 19:51
CAO points for most college courses surge with some seeing 80-point hikes, new figures showGrade inflation results in points jumping with medicine in TCD up 5 to 735Fri Sept 11 2020 - 14:39
Have high-achieving schools lost out under the calculated grades process?Government sources feel the new system delivered results in the fairest way possible, with an overall increase in gradesFri Sept 11 2020 - 05:00
CAO points set to climb significantly for most college coursesSharp increase despite last-minute move to create thousands of extra third-level placesFri Sept 11 2020 - 02:00
Anger mounts at leading Dublin grind school over calculated gradesInstitute of Education claims analysis exposes ‘serious flaws’ in department’s modelThu Sept 10 2020 - 18:44
No plan to recast Leaving Cert grades for schools who ‘lost out’Calculated grades process biased against them, claim cohort of private academiesThu Sept 10 2020 - 02:13
Last-minute bid to ease CAO points pressure with 500 additional college placesConcern over impact of grade inflation on thousands of deferred college applicantsTue Sept 08 2020 - 21:39
Leaving Cert: South Dublin school says ‘warped bias’ downgraded studentsSt Kilian’s Deutsche Schule says there was dramatic drop in expected H1s for GermanTue Sept 08 2020 - 19:07
Countries with larger class sizes will find Covid rules more difficult – reportLatest data shows class sizes in Ireland’s primary schools are well above EU averageTue Sept 08 2020 - 14:07
Leaving Cert: Private schools turn to lawyers after ‘losing out’ in calculated gradesProcess ‘blind’ to social and economic status of schools, says Minister for EducationTue Sept 08 2020 - 03:55
Grade calculation: the precise method of markingTechnical report gives insights into Leaving Cert process of Department of EducationMon Sept 07 2020 - 21:10
Government may consider extra third level places if delayed applicants lose outResults for thousands of deferred college applicants ‘devalued’ due to grade inflationMon Sept 07 2020 - 20:55
Deferred college applicants: ‘It feels like my points are near worthless’Grade inflation set to ‘devalue’ results for thousands of deferred third-level hopefulsMon Sept 07 2020 - 20:39
Leaving Cert students across Ireland receive calculated exam resultsResults 2020: Dramatic increase in grades awarded to pupils under new processMon Sept 07 2020 - 13:19
Leaving Cert: New process results in highest grades on recordDramatic grade inflation will disadvantage thousands of deferred college applicantsMon Sept 07 2020 - 07:11
Leaving Cert 2020: Winners and losers from calculated gradesSchool leavers will benefit from grade inflation, but deferred college applicants may loseMon Sept 07 2020 - 06:00
