Junior Certificate

The Secret Teacher: We’re pushing our super learners into a squeezed middle

Grade bands for both the Junior Cycle and Leaving Cert are due an overhaul

The suspension of Junior Cert exams in recent years is a cause for hope

The pandemic has opened a pathway to a more open and less prescriptive curriculum and assessment model at Junior Cycle

What are your options if you are disappointed with your CAO offer?

There are alternatives to the traditional route to further your education

Evolving career routes boost options for school leavers

Further education programmes, apprenticeships and traineeships offer career progression and skills enhancement outside the traditional CAO system

Swine flu cases settlements totalling over €4.5m approved by High Court

Plaintiffs claimed they developed narcolepsy following vaccination

Rise in number of young people detained in Oberstown for ‘very serious crimes’

Higher proportion detained on longer sentences for offences such as murder

What I learned growing up as a gay Jehovah’s Witness in north Cork

Jamie O’Connell: ‘I am still untangling the black roots of self-hatred imposed on me’

TV spectrum technology could provide alternative for rural broadband

Microsoft Airband successfully trialled in Co Cavan

Thinking of changing your course selection?

Now is the time to review your CAO course selection in order to get them right by the July 1st deadline.

The Secret Teacher: Must we go back to State exams as we know them next year?

We have here a real opportunity to conduct proper reform

Man involved in high-speed car chase jailed for three and a half years

Court heard man threw garden equipment out of stolen car windows as gardaí followed

Irish-language groups call for postponing of process for new Leaving Cert syllabus

Joint call made for pause to process pending analysis of recent junior cycle changes

What to consider when selecting your next move after Leaving Cert

Questions to help determine your career path

A-level and GCSE exams cancelled for 2021 in Northern Ireland

A further 13 deaths and 1,985 additional coronavirus infections registered in North

Ireland poised to be first in the world to map its entire seabed

Infomar project, to be completed by 2026, will help predict impact of storms and floods

Teachers are pulling out all the stops yet education continues to be underfunded

Covid-19 will place further challenges but we will keep on giving. It’s in our nature

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