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ANALYSIS:The ‘profile’ of the issue ordered by the Minister and led by insiders is likely to be a whitewash, write BRENDAN GUILFOYLEand SIMON QUINN

SO THE Minister for Education and Science has finally recognised the glaring problem of grade inflation in the Irish education system and has ordered an “inquiry”. The fact that, according to the Minister, it is to be more of a “profile” than an inquiry, and that it is to be carried out by the insiders of the educational establishment, suggests that this is going to end up as a whitewash.