Junior Certificate examinations will not go ahead this year, Department confirms
Minister for Education Norma Foley briefed teaching unions on the plans this afternoon.
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Minister for Education Norma Foley briefed teaching unions on the plans this afternoon.
29 July has been pencilled in as the most likely date by which the Leaving Cert would start.
The data shows girls received more A grades than boys in most subjects.
Additional gardaí will be on patrol during Junior Cert celebrations tonight.
Nineteen students secured 11 higher/common-level A grades and distinctions this year.
Aspects of Irish history are conspicuous by their absence from the syllabus, writes Caoimhín de Barra.
Several previous attempts to remove the bird from the exam hall “proved futile”, one teacher said.
The exams commission has introduced new measures to safeguard the wellbeing of Leaving Certificate students.
Alcohol is a talking point.
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The SEC said that it would have sufficient numbers in place and did not want to “cause alarm” with the appeal.
There’s been a rise in As almost across the board for students.
The first exam for both sets of students this morning will be English paper 1.
“It was like we both caught fire, spontaneous combustion, we were burning up together.”
Pamela Noonan sat her Junior Cert at age 71, having left school when she was just 11.
The venue became overcrowded because a number of people had forged tickets, leaving valid ticket holders stuck outside.
Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan thinks it will encourage critical thinking.
The strike’s set to go ahead next Tuesday. And neither side is backing down.
Teachers are angry about proposed reforms to the Junior Cert.
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To say it doesn’t is an insult to the 60,698 Irish students who studied for 3 years to sit the exam last June.
Parents and those running bars and off licences are being asked to be extra vigilant today.
There was an increase in the number of students taking up higher level maths and more than 90% of the Junior Cycle cohort takes up science.
This year marks the first time that all students at Leaving Cert level will sit the new Project Maths exam.
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27,000 ASTI and TUI members are to be balloted on non-co-operation with the new Junior Cycle.
The short course will be available in schools from September 2014 and schools can opt in as to whether to adopt it.
The union will meet with a Department of Education Working Group next month to discuss the new junior cycle.
The Department of Education has announced that the first meeting of a new working group set up to discuss the planned overhaul of the Junior Certificate is to take place next month.
The Teachers Union of Ireland said they are concerned there is not enough resources to implement the planned reforms.
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The minister says the SEC has two jobs now: to ensure no student suffers as a result of the error, and to stop it recurring.
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Science minister Sean Sherlock believes the State Examinations Commission will ensure no student loses out over the error.
The English version of a Maths question mistakenly inserted an extra number – which meant two answers are possible.
Some 3.1 million exam papers are sitting in boxes across the country right now.
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This week the State exams begin and Leaving and Junior Certificate students are getting ready to tackle Project Maths. John Devlin has some tips for those worried about the new syllabus.
The National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals given a list of tips to help students perform well during exam time.