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Mon 03 Mar 2010'Grade inflation' report due this week
The preliminary findings of two separate investigations into “grade inflation” in university and Leaving Cert results in Ireland are expected this week, Minister for Education Batt O’Keeffe indicated today.
Mr O’Keeffe confirmed yesterday that he had instructed several Department of Education officials to conduct a “profile analysis” of grades after some of Ireland’s leading industrialists expressed disquiet about a possible decline in academic standards.
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