Natasha Lynch
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Homeschool 2.0: Our guide to the best distance learning tools
- Education
- January 12, 2021, 00:00
Here we go again. Three weeks? Three months? The truth is nobody – including the Department of Education – really knows how long the schools will be c(...)

Junior Cert French: No ‘curveballs’ in predictable paper
- Education
- June 13, 2018, 15:35
Junior Cert students emerged very happy from their French exam on Wednesday after sitting a predictable paper that threw up few surprises. Candidates(...)

School is out – but homework continues online for some students
- Education
- February 28, 2018, 17:30
Many school pupils were celebrating the prospect of several days free of school and homework yesterday. But for John Gavin’s pupils in a Limerick sec(...)

Why is the quality of our multilingual graduates so poor?
- Education
- June 14, 2017, 19:11
For many Irish people of a certain vintage, France was an exotic overseas destination. Parents packed the kids into the car, drove on to the ferry and(...)

Junior Cert French: Zodiac signs test adjectives and tenses
- Education
- June 14, 2017, 17:50
This year’s Junior Cert French papers were manageable with no surprises, according to teachers. On the higher-level paper, students were asked about (...)

The Snapchat teachers: ‘They learn more this way than at school’
- Education
- December 12, 2016, 11:00
It’s difficult at the best of times to capture students’ attention – especially when they are forever checking their phones. So, as the saying goes, (...)

Leaving Cert French: ‘Motivation’ letter baffles students
- Education
- June 15, 2016, 14:49
Thousands of Leaving Cert French students took to the internet on Wednesday to complain about a question on their paper asking them to write a “letter(...)

Junior Cert French and history: Quirks and curveballs
- Education
- June 10, 2015, 16:00
Whoever set this year’s Junior Cert higher-level French paper must have been in a good mood, judging by the general reaction to the paper. Many of t(...)

Leaving Cert French: Homelessness and terrorism among topics on ‘straightforward’ papers
- Education
- June 10, 2015, 12:00
Homelessness, terrorism, and moving house: they’re not quite the topics a person needs for doing business or taking a holiday in France, but they were(...)

Cog Notes: Majority of students seeking exam supports get them
- Education
- June 9, 2015, 01:00
The majority of Leaving Cert candidates who applied for exam support were granted one or more supports last year, according to new figures released by(...)