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A TOP THIRD-LEVEL academic has said that the Leaving Cert syllabus and exams should be “taken out in a field and blown up”.
Tom Begley, former dean of UCD’s two business schools, told Kathy Foley in today’s Sunday Times that the Leaving Cert doesn’t equip students to problem-solve or to learn independently. He isn’t the first to have criticised the current second-level final assessment.
What do you think? Should the Leaving Certificate syllabus and exams be scrapped altogether?
Poll Results:
Yes, it should be completely replaced by an alternative system (700)
Not scrapped altogether, but changed significantly (622)
No, it's fine as it is (144)
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