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Mon 05 May 2010Minister urges college places for those failing higher maths

MINISTER for Education Mary Coughlan has asked college heads to accept students who fail higher-level maths in the Leaving Cert exam.

In a letter to college chiefs, she reveals how thousands of students drop from higher to ordinary-level maths every year in the run-up to the exam.