Leaving Cert oral exams for students will continue to be held during Easter holidays over the next three years despite opposition from teachers’ unions and concerns among students’ representatives.

The number suspected of having cheated in this year's Leaving Certificate and Leaving Certificate Applied has almost doubled to 114 students. This follows the State Examinations Commission (SEC) ...

The Government’s decision over recent years not to charge students for sitting the Leaving and Junior Certificate examinations has contributed to a €2 million deficit on the books of the organisation ...

A record number of students have begun the State Leaving and Junior Certificate exams today. 140,457 students are sitting the exams, the first time the number has exceeded 140,000. The rise is due to ...

In practice, students sitting the Leaving Cert in the next two years could see slightly lower grades than their predecessors would have received for the same level of performance. Schools are being ...

The number of students caught cheating in their Leaving Cert and Junior Cert exams has more than doubled in the space of a year. The State Examinations Commission (SEC) said 86 results had been ...

The number of students caught cheating in their Leaving Cert and Junior Cert exams has more than doubled in the space of a year. The State Examinations Commission (SEC) said 86 results had been ...

A record number of students will today begin their Leaving Cert, Leaving Cert Applied and Junior Cycle exams as the 2025 State examinations begin. For the first time, the number of students beginning ...

Two deaf students in Ireland are campaigning to have Irish Sign Language (ISL) made a Leaving Cert subject. Shane Hamilton, 17, and Ellie Woods, 18, are both Leaving Certificate students at the Holy ...

More than 60,000 students will receive their Leaving Certificate results later, in what will be the last year of grade inflation linked to the pandemic disruption to education. The State Examinations ...

External examinations staff, mainly comprised of school teachers, last year shared a pay-pot of €67.1 million for correcting and supervising state exams. According to the 2024 annual accounts for the ...

A record 140,457 students are due to sit the Leaving Cert, Junior Cert and other state exams from today. The State Examinations Commission (SEC) said the record number of candidates was “linked to ...