Can the Leaving Cert be AI-proofed?
Changes to how project work is handled are vital to prevent takeover by AI
State Examinations Commission (SEC)
Key CAO questions for 2025 Leaving Cert students before third-level offers
Irish Times Helpdesk staffed by highly experienced guidance counsellors remains available on Sunday
Taking teachers seriously as professionals would solve some big problems in Irish education
Primary and post-primary schools are struggling to fill teaching posts and having to resort to employing unqualified people. Why?
Beyond Leaving Cert results: From CAO offers to further education, what are the next steps?
Leaving Cert students are about to discover the fruits of their labour
Leaving Cert 2025: Grades deflate as H1s make up 12% of higher-level exam results
More than 65,000 students receive their results at 10am today
Reformed Leaving Cert would allow too many opportunities to cheat using AI
Every step is already susceptible to AI intervention, from brainstorming ideas to generating a structure for each section, to writing the entire piece
The class of 2025 will pay the price of reversing Leaving Cert grade inflation. Is there a fairer approach?
A candidate who secured 550 points last year can expect to get about 538 points in the 2025 exams due to efforts to gradually return exam results to pre-Covid levels
More students to get higher Junior Cycle grades under reforms
Move follows criticism from students and teachers over ‘harsh’ scoring system
Leaving Cert 2025: How much lower will students’ grades be this year amid deflation?
Students will be competing for college places against applicants with bumper grades from previous years
Examinations Commission explores use of AI to mark Leaving Cert
Teachers fear rise of tools such as ChatGPT pose threat to the integrity of coursework
Leaving Cert Oral English exam a potentially great idea but piling assessments on stressed students and teachers is not
By 2029, 41 subjects will have been redeveloped. Most will have an additional component such as a project or investigation
Q&A: Why are teachers worried about AI and the Leaving Cert?
Teachers' union seeks legal indemnity to protect members who must authenticate students' work
As a visually impaired Leaving Cert student, I feel ignored, frustrated and voiceless
Students with visual impairments should be able to access modified or enlarged mock State exam papers
Leaving Cert oral exams to be held during Easter holidays over next three years despite opposition
State Examinations Commission advised Minister for Education Norma Foley Easter is least disruptive period for students
Six takeaways from Feeder Schools data: Education gaps remain despite progress
Feeder Schools data shows how Ireland’s children progress after completing second-level education.
‘We need extra time now’: Students with additional needs call for State exam changes
Many neurodiverse pupils are high achievers, but the education assessment system can present them with unique challenges
Students from Republic missing out on UK places because of junior cycle marking
Everyone wants senior cycle reform to succeed, but if junior cycle is an indication, there are real grounds for concern
Junior Cycle results: Percentage scoring highest ‘distinction’ mark falls in most subjects
Almost 73,000 students will receive their Junior Cycle results on Wednesday, a week earlier than last year
One in five Leaving Cert results upgraded after rechecks
Thirty-one students who did not appeal results get upgrades following quality assurance checks
CAO offers: Major effort to minimise use of random selection
Minister for Education Norma Foley announced in April that there will be no change from last year, with grades to stay at the same level
Will CAO points go up next week? Your Leaving Cert questions answered
Brian Mooney on students’ queries to The Irish Times Leaving Cert results helpdesk
Inflated Leaving Cert grades to reduce ‘step by step’ from next year, says Norma Foley
Minister for Education says exam authorities will ‘give an opportunity for students to return to pre-Covid levels’
Five key lessons from this year’s Leaving Cert, from an avalanche of maths bonus points to a fierce CAO points race
Joy at getting high grades may be short lived for some when they access their CAO offers next Wednesday
Leaving Cert results 2024: Bumper grades for students set to keep CAO points at high levels
Almost 61,000 students receiving their exam results from 10am on Friday
Decision to scrap exam fees contributed to State Examinations Commission’s €2m deficit
Leaving Cert and Junior Cert exam oversight body paid out €60,000 in a legal settlement, accounts show
Key dates for Leaving Cert 2024: Results, script viewing, appeals and offers
Timeline of this year’s Leaving Certificate results, with dates and deadlines for viewing exam scripts, appealing subjects and CAO offers
Leaving and Junior Cert exams begin with record numbers of students sitting
‘Gradual’ return to normal Leaving Cert results without ‘postmarking adjustment’ to begin next year
‘It’s revolutionising the classroom’: Meet the teachers embracing AI
There are risk with the use of AI in education, but it also has huge potential to improve teaching and learning
Leaving Cert supervisor says mileage claims docked for taking ‘rational’ route to school
Daniel Murphy says he would have gotten stuck ‘behind silage traffic’ when taking route to Kells suggested by State Examinations Commission
Sharp rise in sexual images generated by primary school pupils, Foley warns
Teachers' conference hears State regulator is aware of more predators using social media to extort children
‘We’re disadvantaged’: Maths exams do not add up for dyslexic students
A transition year student’s award-winning investigation has shone a light on readability issues for many sitting Junior Cycle maths papers
‘This is about fairness’: Call for dyslexic students to be given extra time in Leaving Cert exams
Lauren Lynch ‘ended up in a class for students who teachers didn’t want to teach’ and says too many pupils labelled ‘stupid’ for disability
Leaving Cert reforms watered down after plans for teachers to assess their own students shelved, records show
Norma Foley ‘deferred’ school-based assessments last year, citing need to research impact of artificial intelligence
Leaving Cert oral exams to be held during Easter holidays, despite opposition from students and teachers
Representatives had called for return to term-time assessments to give candidates a ‘much-needed break’
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