Trinity to consider written applications from students and schools

Trinity College Dublin is to consider written applications from students and the schools they have attended, in addition to Leaving Cert results, when choosing entrants to its degrees.

While Education Minister Ruairi Quinn awaits a long-promised report from the seven universities on how to reduce the pressure of the points race, the university is preparing its own changes for school leavers in 2014.

Although it is intended just to pilot the scheme for some places on law degrees and maybe some of its humanities courses, TCD will share the results with other colleges to inform the wider changes to the third-level entry system.