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The semester is almost done, which means spring enrollment is underway. The staff of The Spectrum has compiled a list of some of the best classes at UB.

While virtually all sectors of society have been adversely affected during the course of the pandemic, those in full-time education have experienced a very challenging year since last March, The importance of education in society has only been further underlined during the course of the last 12 months. Since the onset of Covid-19, much of the focus surrounding restrictions has been on keeping schools open in a safe manner for students all around the country at both primary and secondary level. There have also been major challenges for third level institutions. It has been a period involving ...

We often hear people telling us that the Leaving Cert was much harder in the past, but what were the exams actually like?  Over the last few years we have collected Leaving Cert and Junior/Inter Cert exams, so people can find out. We were sparked into action by a Twitter-based claim by a friend who claimed to have had studied differentiation and complex numbers for Inter Cert mathematics in the 1980s (spoiler: they hadn't). We have collected many of the STEM exam papers from 1925 to present day. Why 1925? Well, that's the first year the Leaving Cert and Inter Cert were examined by the newly...