A chara, – Moving with the times does not appear to be the Department of Education and Science’s forte. An innovative framework where in-class tests, oral participation and other independent or group project work can be incorporated into an evaluation of students’ performance still seems to be a distant dream.
Past institutional blunders aside, there has to be more to Irish secondary-level education than making youngsters sweat every June with a crude exam-based system that often works in crammers’ favour. – Is mise,
SHEILA CASEY,
Kuerbergsteig,
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Zurich, Switzerland.