ISSU demand Second-Level Reform
Not a month following the end of the Junior and Leaving Certificate exams the Irish Second-Level Students’ Union has insisted that the Department of Education should take heed of recommendations to reform the junior cycle.
This time last year, then Education Minister Batt O’ Keefe asked the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) to find a way to reduce the workload placed on junior cycle students. To this end, the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) is taking submissions on changes to how younger students are tested in various subjects.
Also getting requests from the ISSU is minister, Tánaiste Mary Coughlan, to siginificantly reform the senior cycle, saying, “It seems that now more than ever a complete revamp of the whole examination system is needed. To perform at your optimum ability for 300 minutes so as to be examined on two years of work is unrealistic, unfair and stressful.”
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