Caroline O'Donoghue: 'Columnists love writing about the Leaving Cert. I’m no exception'

"I can’t help but think, as we devise a new system for the Leaving Cert, that we can’t strip out the whole thing and start again"

Recently, TDs have been knocking heads together about how they plan to change the Leaving Cert to reflect not just the limitations of academia during Covid, but the inequalities of it. 

The fact that not every student has had equal access to a computer; that not every student has parents who are able to go through coursework with them; and plainly, not every student has the ideal space and quiet for learning.