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LAST UPDATE | 30 Aug 2023
LEAVING CERT 2023 students are finding out today what third-level offers will come from the grades and subsequent ‘points’ they received for this year’s exams.
Round One offers have now been released by the Central Applications Office (CAO) and you can check them all on The Journal at the button below.
It’s a huge day for thousands of households – from students waiting to see what college they might be attending next month, to parents wondering whether they need to start a hunt for accommodation.
On that note, Further and Higher Education Minister Simon Harris today said those “looking for student accommodation will be going into a college system where there is more capacity than there was last year”.
He also encouraged people to avail of the rent a room scheme and added that there were close to 2,000 available to rent on college websites across the country yesterday.
Harris added that he wants to ensure that students benefit from the rent tax credit.
The Central Applications Office said it has issued 87,075 Round One offers to 57,980 CAO applicants, comprised 52,949 Level 8 course offers and 34,126 Level 7/6 course offers.
Over 31,000 students will have received offers for their first preference course.
Round One offers must be accepted by 3pm on Tuesday, 5 September.
Round Two offers will then be released at 2pm on 11 September – and we’ll have all the points right here on The Journal later that afternoon.
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Hope they all find accommodation if not there’s a middle isle offer in Lidl next week for tents and sleeping bags
International Baccalaurette students seriously let down.. they were back at ore covid marking -8%, leaving cert are still at covud marking +8%. Accumaltive-16%.
Universities need to reconsider IB course which is based on independent learning research etc….
@Aidan C: I thought I was alone on the matter, but the idea that people who are eligible to apply through the CAO as Irish citizens and have completed their final exams through a different system which has reverted their grading schemes back to normal, pre-COVID measures must compete against the Irish inflated system is nothing short of discrimination. The IB, A-Level and other students who have faced the same forms of deflated and frankly normalised grading systems have to compete against the Irish students who have been compensated for their experiences with COVID. This system is completely unfair and unjustified. Some form of compensation should be awarded to those who completed their exams with normal grading systems.
Fair play to all. I certainly remember my choices and the nerves. Can I ask this question. How many of those who got their chosen collage and being accepted into that collage are from middle class areas and those are being given first preference as usual.
@Alan Scott: collages have always been more of a middle class thing though really. Hard to say why, but in my experience the working classes tend to favour more traditional art forms like paintings and still life.
@Alan Scott: Why be so divisive and make it a them Vs us situation. Each student gave their L.C. number, not their place of residence. Although I do have some sympathy with your argument.
We are obsessed with how well people have done but quickly ignore those and the areas where people have not and in particular the reasons as to why. E.G. the number of H1′s H2′s. It is beyond me as to why anyone is upgraded or downgraded, regardless of where they come from. It is the quality of the teaching, discipline and parent interaction with those schools that need to be addressed area by area. Otherwise upgrading students from ‘ poorer’ areas would only lead to more dropping out in college, as may happen in ‘ wealthier’ areas.
I am assuming you are a SF voter and would question their education strategy to rectify this wrong and compare it to other party policies.
Separately, this idea of the countless number of courses on offer based on business, engineering or law etc should be scrapped in favour of giving the student a 1st year course that gives a broader out of Economics/ Finance, Engineering or Law.
@Ignatius J Reilly: still favouring someone who lives in foxrock vs someone from Tallaght who did equally well in getting points is disgusting. Collage is for everyone who wants to do it and study hard not just the privileged few.
@BarryH: I’m far from a SF voter lol. I’m always on here criticising them lol. I’m liberal in some areas though healthcare and education etc.
@BarryH: Barry you know and I know collage recruiters are only out for those from middle class areas. I have a cousin living in Blackrock and he agreed with me. Far to many places are kept from those areas and the collages get itchy hands when they see a applicant from some part of Tallaght or other working class area.
@BarryH: did you not see the report on the Irish times or other wag. A woman who’s in her 40s lives in a working class area, she applied multiple times for a place in the royal College of surgeons to do her medical degree. She was turned down multiple times, only this year she has been successful in getting a place. Class snobbery plays a awful lot in collages accepting or declining prospective students.
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