Exam Talks In Chaos As Union Withdraws
Teachers union the ASTI has withdrawn from discussions on this years Leaving Certificate.
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Teachers union the ASTI has withdrawn from discussions on this years Leaving Certificate.
The Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland has pulled out of talks on this year’s Leaving...
Education Correspondent The Minister for Education has invited ASTI trade union leadership to meet her to discuss the union's withdrawal from talks aimed at finding a way of assessing this year's Leaving Certificate students. The ASTI pulled out of the talks in protest at what it said was the prioritisation of a calculated grade type assessment over the sitting of exams. The secondary teachers’ union said it was withdrawing pending a guarantee that negotiations will focus on what it said are the minister’s stated objectives, of planning for examinations and scoping out a correspondi...
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Leaving Certificate Written Exam Results Now Available Share this article Students who sat the leaving cert exams can now view their results online. The examinations were made available to all students who wished to sit them after over 60,000 students received Calculated Grades last September. Over 2000 students decided to sit the papers in November. Half of them received a higher result than their calculated grade in one or more subjects. The State Examinations Commission says overall almost 40 per cent of grades in the written papers were higher. Any student who changes their third level c...