Fewer than 20 students who sat the Junior Cert examination this year have not been given their exam results over fears they may have cheated.

Girls tended to receive better grades than boys in most Junior Cert subjects again this year, data from the State Examinations Commission (SEC) shows.

Congratulations have been extended to almost 64,500 students nationwide who are set to receive their Junior Cert results today.

The State Examinations Commission needs to recruit suitably qualified and experienced teachers “in greater numbers” to correct Leaving Certificate examination papers, the Teachers Union of Ireland has urged.

Junior Cert results are to be delayed by three weeks this year as the marking of Leaving Cert appeals are prioritised.

The highest number of Leaving Certificate appeals on record has been lodged this year by students unhappy with their results — the same year that significant changes to the process have been introduced.

71 students were this year denied or refused their results on alleged breaches and suspicion of cheating. Barrister at law John Temple asks why these students are left in limbo due to the absence of effective legislation in this area.

Students receiving their first-round offers from the Central Applications Office (CAO) tomorrow should give consideration to all their options before making a final decision, according to advice from experts.

Seventy-one students who sat the Leaving Certificate this year have not been given their results over fears that they may have cheated.

When just a few points stand between a student and their prospective course, appealing a grade may help to bridge that gap.

Almost 58,800 students receiving their results this morning are reminded to remain calm in the days and weeks ahead regardless of what the day brings.

Helen Kelleher speaks with Lisa Daunt, guidance counsellor at Kinsale Community College.

An estimated 57,000 students are set to receive their Leaving Cert results on Tuesday - a day earlier than in previous years.

Students have reacted with upset and frustration to the listening section of the higher level Leaving Cert Spanish exam, which they said included “mumbling”, “cut-off sentences” and “skipped in parts”.

The author of an article which featured in a Junior Cert exam yesterday without her knowledge has received death threats.

The State Examinations Commission and the Minister for Education and Skills have succeeded in their limited appeals against parts of a High Court decision allowing student Rebecca Carter to take up a place at veterinary medicine at UCD.

An urgent appeal has been issued for teachers to correct Leaving and Junior Certificate exam papers with less than a fortnight to go before the examinations begin.

An urgent appeal has been issued for teachers to correct Leaving and Junior Cert exam papers with less than a fortnight to go before the examinations begin.

Computers will not be correcting Leaving or Junior Cert papers, the State Examinations Commission (SEC) has confirmed.

The SEC said that reports suggesting that a new online marking system will see students' exams corrected by machines were "misleading".

Judgement has been reserved by Court of Appeal in appeals brought by the State Examinations Commission and the Minister for Education and Skills against aspects of a High Court decision allowing student Rebecca Carter to take up veterinary medicine at UCD.

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The Leaving Certificate will run into a fourth week for up to 4,000 students from next year under plans to avoid dozens of teenagers having to sit three exams in a single day.

Third-level colleges have not yet agreed a shortened timeline for offering places to Leaving Certificate students, seven weeks after it was hastily announced by two Government ministers.

Up to 350 students a year could benefit from sweeping changes to the timing of Leaving Certificate results, college offers, and exam rechecks, which ministers claim will cut three weeks off the exam appeals process.

It took courage, tenacity, and resolve for an 18-year-old student to take on the organs of the State in order to get justice.

The State’s exams appeal system is not fit for purpose, a High Court judge has warned after a student fulfilled her dream of winning a place in veterinary medicine following a legal challenge.

More than 600 non-teachers corrected Junior and Leaving Certificate exams in the last five years, the State Examinations Commission (SEC) has admitted.

The State Examinations Commission (SEC) reprinted hundreds of copies of two Junior Cert exam papers for students in the Ennis area after deleting exam content in its response to the tragic double drowning of two Ennis 15-year-olds.

Maths and science kicked off the second week of Junior Certificate exams yesterday.

Curriculum and exam setters must ensure a vital skill is not further weakened by guaranteeing that a full algebra question will be asked in a shortened Junior Certificate final exam, the chairman of the Irish Maths Teachers Association has urged.

A record number of students are in line to take higher- level Leaving Certificate maths on Friday.

Students are losing out on valuable classes, because teachers are testing Junior and Leaving Certificate teenagers in other schools, a schools’ leader has said.

A failure to budget for a growing number of students sitting exams has been blamed for mounting losses at the State body which oversees the Leaving and Junior Certificate tests.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission says its newly created cyber unit had filed its first charges against an ‘initial coin offering’, alleging that a privately held company called PlexCorps and its top two officials had defrauded investors.

Students and teachers have rejected exam officials’ suggestions that time was not a problem in this year’s Junior Certificate paper in English.

The results of almost 62,000 Junior Certificate students are being collected today as part of what is a historic change to Irish education.