Feeder Schools data shows how Ireland’s children progress after completing second-level education.
Some 43,197 former students who attended second level in the State secured places on undergraduate programmes at third-level institutions listed in this supplement. Photograph: iStock
They sat the Leaving Cert in June 2024, or in a previous year, and attended a wide range of school types including Deis schools, private fee-paying schools, Gaelcholáistí , and other recognised schools. Students attending Gaelcholáistí make up 3.5 per cent of the class of 2024, but 3.9 per cent of those securing places overall and 4.8 per cent of those receiving places in traditional universities.
In 2024, higher education access continued to expand through multiple pathways. Several hundred students started new Tertiary degree programmes, where they began their studies in local further education colleges before progressing to the universities which will eventually confer their degree. Other students commenced degrees in Northern Ireland in medical and paramedical programmes funded by the Irish Government, and degree-level apprenticeship pathways continued to grow.
There are significantly lower third-level progression rates among students in areas which do not have access to third-level institutions and who are therefore unable to attend a chosen course without living away from home.The most affluent parts of the capital city, such as Dublin 4 and Dublin 6, saw 76 per cent and 95 per cent respectively of the 2024 entrants who sat their Leaving Cert in local schools progress to third-level this year. These figures compare with 87 per cent and 99.
There has been an ongoing expansion in the numbers of places offered by colleges during the period of the outgoing Government, as they have sought to increase the numbers of graduates in sectors of the economy where we have acute shortages, particularly in the medical and paramedical disciplines.Some schools recorded a drop in the number of students sitting the Leaving Cert in 2023-2024 which inflated their third-level progression rates significantly.
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