Could this year’s Leaving Cert be the last time students sit the traditional state exams the way Irish citizens have done for the last 100 years – or will sweeping reforms be voted down this week?

Ever since I sat that old Irish rite of passage ... Everyone seemed to be getting 500 plus points. It just seemed out of control. One Leaving Cert cohort didn’t even have to do the exam.

The programmes are only open to applicants who are Irish or UK citizens ... (The UCAS website shows what each Leaving Cert grade is worth in UCAS tariff points.) Candidates for the allied health ...

Two deaf students in Ireland are campaigning to have Irish Sign Language (ISL) made a Leaving Cert subject. Shane Hamilton, 17, and Ellie Woods, 18, are both Leaving Certificate students at the ...

Students can choose up to five courses and will be required to achieve specific grades rather than CAO points. Ulster University has a UCAS Tariff points system for ... fifteen years he has been ...

Ellie added that the provision of an ISL Leaving Certificate examination would remediate the fact that many deaf students are unable to learn Irish. She said: “It is about getting the points ...

A TOTAL of 13 students in a single Irish school have nabbed the maximum point available in this year's Leaving Cert. Students at ... have earned a total of 625 points each, with one student ...

The current results are around seven percentage points higher than those at pre-Covid-19 levels. A total of 60,839 candidates will receive Leaving Certificate results this year, some 56,791 ...

Don’t have 32 UCAS tariff points? We will consider ‘non-standard’ applications ... 32 UCAS points at Advanced Highers – refer to Admissions Tutor. Irish Leaving Certificate: Irish Highers, H5 in five ...

Offers are made in terms of grades rather than UCAS Tariff points. This means that a minimum ... break situation in August following the release of results. A level, Irish leaving Certificate and BTEC ...