What is this I’ve heard about Leaving Cert students facing oral exams in English? Yes, Leaving Cert students sitting the English exam in future are likely to face oral tests at the end of fifth ...

Leaving Certificate students could face an English oral exam as part of planned reforms to the curriculum. Plans for the revised English exam have been set out in a new consultation document ...

Leaving Cert students sitting the English exam in future are likely to face oral tests at the end of fifth year where they will be quizzed on plays or books they have studied. Students will be ...

Sam the Trinity fox and brief pandemic celebrity has died, having spent his final few weeks in an animal sanctuary. The fox became famous in campus lore and newspaper images during the Covid-19 ...

In this edition of Classroom Central, we report on plans for Leaving Cert English orals; Counselling sessions are the new grinds; How to approach the Irish oral for the Leaving Cert; A threefold ...

But I ­underestimated the ingenuity of the ­Department of Education. The proposal for Leaving Cert ­English students to submit a piece of creative writing comes as part of a new draft ...

Adding an oral exam to Leaving Cert English is a good idea if it is done properly. It is a sensible move given that, aside from traditional supervised pen-and-paper exams, orals are the least ...

Teachers’ unions have been told by the minister for education that changes to the Leaving Cert will proceed as planned from this September. Concerns around the incoming changes have prompted ...

There has been a significant increase in the number of students intending to sit Leaving Certificate exams this year, data from the State Examinations Commission shows. The data shows that by ...

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The State Examinations Commission has published sample examination papers for the seven revised Leaving Certificate subjects due to be introduced in schools next September. It has also published ...

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