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Mon 03 Mar 2010Major inquiries into 'grade inflation' in exam results
MINISTER FOR Education Batt O’Keeffe has launched two major investigations into “grade inflation” in university and Leaving Cert results – after some of Ireland’s leading industrialists raised concerns about a possible decline in academic standards.
The inquiries by senior Department of Education officials are already under way and preliminary results will become available later this week.
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