He said this had repositioned teachers as the producers of outcomes and not as thinking and judging professionals. Mr Breslin said the Junior Cert model had not succeeded in improving the education of our pupils and changes were imposed from the top down in the form of a diktat. He agreed with a previous speaker who described it as a lot of “woolly nonsense”. Mr Breslin said teachers were not active stakeholders in the reform process. “I want to see any proposed changes at senior level being built on a successful model at junior level,” he said. He said noted that the stakes are higher at senior level for students and emphasised the need to proceed cautiously.