Leaving Certificate

Discover the latest updates on the Leaving Cert syllabus, with news and adivce on exams, results and your educational journey

Does my daughter need a postgrad to get a decent job in engineering?

Degrees with integrated work placements help students can gain essential industry skills and personal attributes which employers look for

Teachers are being bullied into accepting reforms that will damage education

Unethical use of AI is rampant and in danger of producing students whose degrees are essentially meaningless

Leaving Cert maths: Bonus points linked to decline in standards and should be reassessed, researchers say

Policymakers should ‘reassess the nature of bonus points’ to reduce the incentive to aim for a low passing grade, study says

The Irish Times view on Leaving Cert reforms: AI must be taken seriously

A thriving market has sprung up for software that makes detection impossible

Meet the TikTok teachers – and their surprising predictions for the Leaving Cert

Some educators have built up a huge following online and their tips are in demand for students keen to maximise their performance on the big day

Teachers face loss of 5% pay increase if Leaving Cert reforms blocked

Teacher unions to ballot members on whether to accept package or take industrial action in September

Degrees without CAO points were meant to be a ‘game changer’. Why do so few students avail of them?

Simon Harris said tertiary degrees meant students would not have to worry about Leaving Cert points

My son wants to be a pilot. Is there any way of learning without breaking the bank?

It is very expensive, but joining the Air Corps can provide a route into civilian aviation

Teaching union urges members to back new Leaving Cert reform package

Changes due to roll out from September have sparked threats of industrial action

Teachers are using a ‘viral’ AI tool to grade students’ Leaving Cert work. It’s convenient - but is it ethical?

A new AI model trained to mark Leaving Cert work is going ‘viral’. Many educators are embracing it, even as they express concern about the ethics of student use

Letters to the Editor, May 6th: On shorts and skorts, teaching hours, Kneecap, and the arrival of swifts

‘When will we ever get over the desire to police and dictate what women wear?’

Will CAO points drop due to efforts to tackle grade inflation this year?

Why students on bumper grades from recent years will have an advantage in race for college places

Leaving Cert textbook author resigns from curriculum reform group amid ‘dumbing down’ concerns

University lecturer says original vision of construction studies subject is ‘all but abandoned’ in new draft

Middle-class students may benefit most from Leaving Cert reform, say principals

More resources needed to support teaching and learning changes, poll of school leaders finds

Ferris Bueller was right: life moves pretty fast. If you have children in school, you could miss it

There is nothing quite like having a sixth year in the house to remind you how quickly the years go by

Could my son really lose a college offer if his CAO details are incorrect?

Many students are left devastated each year due to errors or omissions in their applications

Will there be a teacher’s strike in the autumn?

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Teachers’ Union of Ireland to ballot on industrial action if Leaving Cert reform not paused

Helen McEntee tells delegates she will continue to work with teachers but says reforms are for benefit of students

Policing the use of AI in the classroom

‘Proposed reforms to the Leaving Certificate exam format have been overtaken by technological events’

Leaving Cert reforms ‘will hurt DEIS schools, but benefit those in private education’, teacher warns

ASTI conference told of ‘chaos’ if changes to senior education cycle programme are introduced in September

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