“Power and privilege.”
Education Minister Norma Foley is asked about the Leaving Cert calculated grades system, where students’ individual results were “checked and reviewed” based on traits like gender and socio-economic status to ensure “equitable” outcomes. Question by Ben Scallan.
Over 60,000 students receive results
The system also dislocates talent from the appeal of a career.
Teacher, students opposed
Not, of course, that anyone would ever suggest that an inexperienced Minister like Norma Foley would be being played like a fiddle by career civil servants. Perish the thought.
The course aims to engage students with both the political process and the world around us
There are a couple of obvious problems with this, beyond the argument above that none of it is really necessary.
The most galling thing about all of this, of course, is that it is happening because neither parents nor students truly understand the exam system as it is.
Landmark ruling
A body representing Irish businesses has claimed that many Irish Leaving Cert graduates are unable to perform “simple tasks,” and cannot write a paragraph of text without making significant grammar and spelling errors. The remarks were made this week by the Irish Small and Medium Enterprise Association (ISME) while speaking to the Oireachtas Education Committee […]
There should be no particular mystery about why it is, this year, that the number of leaving cert students who achieved maximum points absolutely skyrocketed: Here is the share of Leaving Certificate candidates with maximum CAO points since 1995. In that year, 31 candidates (0.05%) had maximum points. In 2020, 577 candidates (1.0%) had maximum […]