School-leavers from fee-charging sector and affluent areas dominate high points university courses
The proportion of school leavers from poorer backgrounds who secured places in higher education dropped this year following a return to traditional Leaving Cert exams.
Overall, this year’s data indicate that a large majority of school leavers across all post-primary schools progressed to higher education in 2022. Gaelcholáiste na Mara in Arklow, Co Wicklow, sent the highest proportion of its students to third level in a year during which Irish-medium schools impressed with high progression rates.
Outside Dublin, the inequalities are less glaring, although Co Limerick has the highest third-level progression rate at 83 per cent and Co Cavan has the lowest, at 61 per cent.
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