Parents are being pressured into giving schools hundreds of euro in “voluntary” contributions because the Government is failing to give the facilities the money they need to survive.

Disappointed college applicants are being advised to consider the various options available if they did not get the place they had been hoping for from the CAO today.

THE State Examinations Commission reprinted 45,000 Leaving Certificate English papers because pictures on the original exam might have caused upset after the Navan school bus crash, it emerged last night.

THE National Parents Council has welcomed a ban by a fast food chain on employing Leaving Certificate students during the school week.