Micheál Martin: 'I'd like to give options to the students'

A limited cross-examination of the assistant secretary of the Department of Education has been permitted by the High Court during the lead challenge over the Leaving Certificate calculated grades process.

The director of the calculated grades office has rejected claims that a document circulated by her contained “scathing criticisms” of the exclusion of historical school data from a calculated grades model, the High Court has heard.

A draft document circulated by the director of the Leaving Cert calculated grades office referred to “negative consequences” of excluding historical school data from a calculated grades model as including “better-performing disadvantaged schools ...

Speaking during leader's questions, Mr Ryan said the decision not to inform the public or politicians was in order to investigate what had gone wrong

A High Court judge has overturned the Minister for Education's refusal to consider a home-schooled Leaving Cert student for calculated grades on the basis none of those involved in her schooling were registered teachers.

Some 60,000 Leaving Cert students got their results this morning. These results - the highest on record - came at the end of a turbulent and difficult year, with the class of 2020 experiencing a Leaving Cert unlike any other.