A downside of the late Easter is that when the sixth years return to school next week, there really is very little time left ...

Adding an oral exam to Leaving Cert English is a good idea if it is done properly ... speak and listen is vital in our fractured and emotive age. Students developing their ideas through enjoyable ...

UP TO 61,000 students will sit the Leaving Cert this year. But before a paper ... fixing a system where success increasingly depends on luck. The Minister for Education must ensure that runaway ...

Ever since I sat that old Irish rite of passage, that traumatising end exam of formal education: Ye Olde Leaving Certificate.Most students go through this process, and most will be having nightmares ...

That, at least, is how the Leaving Cert has been seen by generations of students. This year, however, many candidates and their parents worry that the exams are playing out across a very uneven ...

The Killarney Community College students, who received their Leaving Cert results on Friday from l-r: Wojciech Dziewiatek, Aoibhinn McCrank, John Teahan. Photo by Tatyana McGough St Brendan's ...