Hold your head up high: Phil Scraton on Hillsborough
Social justice campaigner and academic Phil Scraton speaks to about Hillsborough,and why he thinks the Leaving Cert are unfair.
“The Leaving Cert nightmare” is a shibboleth among Irish people, a stress-related bad dream many of us suffer, sometimes several decades after we sit the exam itself. As almost 60,000 students await Leaving Certificate results today, Phil Scraton, Professor Emeritus at the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast, says he’s no fan of the system.
