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Wednesday 23 September 2020
We asked our anonymous teacher to share her views and those of some of her students on the recent controversy surrounding To Kill A Mockingbird and Of Mice and Men in light of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Plans to hold a school-based version of the Junior Cert in the autumn have been cancelled.
The National Public Health Emergency Team is due to meet on Friday.
The decision was announced this morning by the Department of Education.
The subject was given special status by the Government this week.
Additional gardaí will be on patrol during Junior Cert celebrations tonight.
Nineteen students secured 11 higher/common-level A grades and distinctions this year.
Strict new Covid-19 measures are now in effect in the capital – here’s what they mean for you.
Traditionally, students receive their results in the middle of September.
Those suspected of cheating represent a tiny proportion of the 57,000 students who sat the exams this year.
Aoife Dooley said she has notified gardaí of the threats made to her online.
It’s less two weeks until examinations begin.
The SEC said reports that some subjects would be marked using computers were ‘misleading’.
Geography was removed as a core subject from the Junior Cert last year.
Rhona Butler said the current process is not fair on the student, family or school involved.
We’ve taken ten questions from the current syllabus to see how much you know about the past.
Grades in the pillar subjects of Irish, English, and Maths remain relatively unchanged from previous years.
New specifications for Maths, Home Economics, History, Music and Geography are set to go live from this month for Junior Cert students.
Over 120,000 students around the country will begin their exams today.
Get plenty of sleep and exercise, and remember that anxiety is normal.
TheJournal.ie’s FactCheck looks at whether students really do make the sun shine for everyone.
Let’s take you back to those oxbow lakes.
Time to engage the recesses of your mind.
There’s no excuse for English teachers to get less than 100%.
Teachers, including recently qualified teachers and retired teachers, are being asked to apply.
Our education system must deliver a quality education that prepares each child for their future lives, writes Geoffrey Browne.
The government launched its Action Plan for Education today.
Currently, students have two hours to complete each paper.
A petition from Junior Cert student Tara O’Sullivan has led to today’s hearing before the Petitions Committee.
Denis North is taking the English and Geography exams at Kennedy College, New Ross.
Fake news, democracy and inventing the wheel – how did the first day of State exams go?
The SEC said that it would have sufficient numbers in place and did not want to “cause alarm” with the appeal.
It won’t be as easy as you expect.
It’s a subject that we all look back on fondly until we remember those coursework journals.
Make the new English Junior Cert exam fairer by adding thirty extra minutes, writes Junior Cert pupil Tara O’Sullivan.
Under a new student and parent charter, schools will have to outline the outcome of each complaint made by parents.
Students taught by ASTI could end up losing 10% of their overall mark, it is feared.
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock…
Take our mini test.
IT’S A QUESTION that has been asked throughout the pandemic, but which has been raised again recently after the Oliver Bond Street party – would you call the Gardaí on your neighbours if you saw they broke Covid-19 restrictions on mass gatherings?
In the UK, junior minister for policing Kit Malthouse suggested that people should report their neighbours to the police if they’re concerned about gatherings that break the rules.
At the moment, Dublin is at Level Three which means that you can have visitors from one other household to your home or garden; while the rest of the country is at Level Two, which means you can have six visitors from up to three households to your home or garden.
So we’re asking you: Would you call the Gardaí if you saw your neighbours break Covid-19 restrictions on gatherings?
Poll Results:
Share your story: voices@thejournal.ie
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