Martin O Grady

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Every student in the class received a fail grade from the lecturer - until IT Tralee intervened to raise their grades
Staff protest over ‘grade inflation’ at institute of technology

Lecturers at Institute of Technology Tralee are refusing to attend exam and course meetings after an exam board at the college overturned a lecturer’s(...)

Exam boards are ‘having to put up a fight’ to avoid grades being inflated. Photograph: iStock
Irish universities’ grade inflation sparks claims of ‘dumbing down’

Students are most likely to secure first or upper-second class degrees at Dublin City University (72 per cent), followed by University College Dublin (...)

Students are most likely to get a first-class honour in Trinity (20 per cent) than in any other university, figures show. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Revealed: the universities most likely to award higher grades

Which university offers the best shot of a first-class or 2.1 degree? Is there much difference between University College Dublin and Trinity College D(...)

Institute of Technology Tallaght: latest data indicates that institutes of technology managed to produce more first-class degree performances than universities. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh
Surge in first-class honours at institutes of technology

The proportion of students at institutes of technology graduating with first-class honours degrees has doubled in the past 15 years, new fi(...)

More than 90 per cent of law graduates in TCD receive either a first or a 2.1. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Are university grades being inflated to suit jobs market?

Education may be priceless, but increasingly the marketplace is putting a monetary value on a 2.1. For a long time, people wishing to do postgradua(...)

At Trinity College Dublin, only eight out of 301 students who sat psychology between 2004 and 2013 failed to achieve a 2.1 or a first.
DCU, UCC award more ‘firsts’ in new indicator of grade inflation

Students attending Dublin City University (DCU) or University College Cork (UCC) have a much higher chance of graduating with a first class honours de(...)

The weir at the Dropping Well on the river Dodder, one of the barriers to be modified in a new fish-pass scheme. Photograph: Eric Luke
Fish passes will allow salmon scale Dodder weirs

Several man-made weirs on Dublin’s Dodder river are to be modified to allow wild salmon and sea trout back upstream for the first time in more than 2(...)