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Wed 03 Mar 2010The lessons of 'grade inflation'
Madam, – The reports by your Education Editor, Seán Flynn (Front page and Home News) on grade inflation are disconcerting, but, as an educator on the front line of the education system, I am not surprised. The reasons for the observed grade inflations are rooted in the education and examining patterns laid down at Junior and Leaving Cert levels and then extended into third level.
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