ANALYSIS:Proposals will aim to tackle the problem of male students disengaging from school during the Junior Cert cycle and lift standards in literacy TRENCHANT CRITICISM of the Junior Cert exam has ...

JUNIOR CERTIFICATE/Maths: It's the last hurrah for the old-style Junior Cert maths exam. From next year, students will be tested on a new revamped maths syllabus and - for the first time - calculators ...

MATHS failure rates at Junior Cert level continue to rise, but science is evolving into a subject with the greatest uptake. Over 56,000 students opened the envelopes containing their Junior Cert ...

Frank McCarthy, principal of Yeats College Waterford, says the Junior Certificate is an important exam not least because it allows students to move forward with confidence I welcome all students and ...

Elaine Devlin, Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) junior cycle maths spokeswoman, said one unusual aspect of the first higher-level paper was the arrangement of more difficult questions ...

Students from Belvedere College secondary school Dublin doing the English paper in the Leaving Cert. (file photo)(Image: RollingNews.ie) Every year, Junior and Leaving Cert students claim their exams ...

Students across the country are set to receive their long-awaited Junior Cert results today, the first year in which all exams have been delivered under the new curriculum. This year, 71 students who ...

THE Department of Education has received a review confirming that history should remain optional Junior Certificate cycle. The subject was struck off as one of the core subjects in the Junior Cert ...

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