# leaving-cert - Monday 14 June, 2021
# Leaving Cert
# Leaving Cert
Concerns were raised today that some students did not receive fair treatment in the oral exams.
# leaving-cert - Sunday 13 June, 2021
# Quiz
# Quiz
This year’s Leaving Cert ificate exams kicked off this week.
# leaving-cert - Wednesday 9 June, 2021
# Leaving Cert
# Leaving Cert
While some students have opted for Accredited Grades, thousands will sit their exams over the coming weeks.
# leaving-cert - Tuesday 8 June, 2021
# Your Say
# Your Say
This year’s exams kick off tomorrow.
# One Day To Go
# One Day To Go
The written exams start on Wednesday and run until 29 June.
# leaving-cert - Sunday 6 June, 2021
# Covid Precautions
# Covid Precautions
While some students have opted for Accredited Grades, thousands will sit their Leaving Cert examinations this month.
# leaving-cert - Saturday 5 June, 2021
# Limerick
# Limerick
Over the past fortnight there have been 800 confirmed cases in Limerick.
# leaving-cert - Thursday 27 May, 2021
# Mask Challenge
# Mask Challenge
The student has brought the proceedings through his mother.
# leaving-cert - Wednesday 24 March, 2021
# leaving-cert - Tuesday 9 March, 2021
# Leaving Cert
# Leaving Cert
The heads of a Bill approved today will put this year’s exams and accredited grades system on a legal footing.
# Decision Time
# Decision Time
Students can decide to sit the exams in person or receive calculated grades.
# leaving-cert - Tuesday 2 March, 2021
# Leaving Cert
# Leaving Cert
The action is a test case from about 50 other challenges by other Leaving Cert students.
# leaving-cert - Thursday 18 February, 2021
# Exams
# Exams
“I trust my teachers, but I don’t trust the algorithm,” one student said.
# Canvassing
Timetable to begin from Wednesday 9 June Sanctions for grade lobbying could include barring students form exams Reopening of schools likely to begin with LC students and young children
# leaving-cert - Wednesday 17 February, 2021
# Education
# Education
The proposals follow intense discussions between the department and teaching unions.
# Junior Cert
# Junior Cert
Minister for Education Norma Foley briefed teaching unions on the plans this afternoon.
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Leaving Cert students are to be given the option not to sit exams and instead apply for calculated grades Oral and practical elements of the Leaving Certificate will also go ahead The Junior Certificate has been cancelled
# leaving-cert - Tuesday 16 February, 2021
# Cabinet
# Cabinet
The HSE found that 62 people were injured last year in accidents involving off-road vehicles like scrambler bikes.
# leaving-cert - Monday 15 February, 2021
# 2021
# 2021
The ASTI has said the minister has agreed to work on the union’s concerns.
# leaving-cert - Sunday 14 February, 2021
# Education
# Education
“I don’t know how I can show my face in the school again. Everyone has been pitted against each other,” one parent said.
# leaving-cert - Saturday 13 February, 2021
# Education
# Education
The ASTI said that its concerns had been addressed by Minister for Education Norma Foley.
# leaving-cert - Friday 12 February, 2021
# Leaving Cert
ASTI to attend fresh talks with Education Minister this afternoon Harris says there is more time this year to find solution 'Significant increase' in on-site attendance possible at third-level from September
# State Exams
# State Exams
It’s been a chaotic 24 hours.
# leaving-cert - Thursday 11 February, 2021
# Education
# Education
The union has said that the plans from the department would not provide a “meaningful Leaving Cert ificate” for students.
# leaving-cert - Friday 5 February, 2021
# Education
Two plans required 'due to the nature of the pandemic' Option will not be the same as last year's calculated grades system Unions accept offer to discuss plans Discussion on Junior Cert examinations is ongoing
# leaving-cert - Wednesday 3 February, 2021
# Your Say
# Your Say
It’ll be next week at the earliest until we know what is planned for this year’s Leaving Cert exams.
# leaving-cert - Tuesday 2 February, 2021
# Waiting Game
# Waiting Game
The Advisory Group tasked with plotting a course for the examinations met again today.
# State Exams
# State Exams
Of the 4,925 grades being sent to students today, 40% were higher than their Calculated Grade results.
# Leaving Cert
# Leaving Cert
This work includes the ‘standardisation’ algorithm that had two flawed lines of code resulting in 7,200 students receiving the wrong grades.
# leaving-cert - Monday 1 February, 2021
# Education
# Education
Schools have remained closed since the Christmas break.
# leaving-cert - Friday 29 January, 2021
# It's Quizness Time
# It's Quizness Time
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood…”
# leaving-cert - Wednesday 27 January, 2021
# Leaving Cert
# Leaving Cert
Alternatives to the Leaving Cert exam are being considered by the national advisory committee on the exams this afternoon.
# leaving-cert - Friday 22 January, 2021
# State Exams
# State Exams
A survey found that most Leaving Cert students wanted a choice between Calculated Grades or in-person exams.
# leaving-cert - Wednesday 20 January, 2021
# State Exams
# State Exams
73% of second-level students said they feel either very unsafe or unsafe at schools reopening.
# leaving-cert - Thursday 14 January, 2021
# Pencils Down
# Pencils Down
Education Minister Norma Foley said this afternoon that the changes will ‘play to students’ strengths’.
# leaving-cert - Sunday 10 January, 2021
# Your Say
# Your Say
There are 61,000 Leaving Cert students, and they would need to be vaccinated before June to sit their State exams.
# leaving-cert - Saturday 9 January, 2021
# Poll
# Poll
Calculated Grades replaced traditional exams last year, and didn’t go smoothly.
# leaving-cert - Friday 8 January, 2021
# Covid-19
# Covid-19
Programming and online resources have been expanded by the State Broadcaster to help students through level 5.
# Teachers' Unions
# Teachers' Unions
Meanwhile, the decision not to allow in-school learning for children with special needs has been called “devastating”.
# leaving-cert - Thursday 7 January, 2021
# Leaving Cert
# Leaving Cert
The ASTI had told its members not cooperate with government plans to bring students in for three days a week.
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