Norma Foley has a challenge ahead to keep everyone happy as she aims to reform the Leaving Certificate.
SOME SIXTH YEAR students have written to the Education Minister about their Leaving Cert concerns as the State exam is eased from its Covid-era form.
Despite the record high numbers, Minister for Education Norma Foley pledged the overall Leaving Cert results for the class of 2022 “will be no lower” than in the previous two years. Correspondence released to the PA news agency under Freedom of Information legislation shows the pressure the minister faces to keep that pledge, as students wrote to Foley to express their concern about the Leaving Cert in 2023.
Recognising the disruption to teaching and learning which had been experienced by students as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, measures were announced to address concerns including changes to exam papers, which gave students added choice and time in the exam hall, relieving pressure and ensuring greater fairness
“They have missed crucial parts of the foundations of learning in second year and third year as well as not being given the opportunity to sit the Junior Cert,” it said.In a letter dated 16 September, a fifth year student wrote to the minister to ask for the Leaving Cert to be “changed and changed now”.
PA Images One student asked Foley to make sure exams don’t clash with a concert by pop star Harry Styles, above PA Images
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