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”.

Boys are more than twice as likely as girls to get caught cheating in the Leaving Cert.

Millions of euro in public money have been lost by government departments and state agencies through sloppy practices and ill-conceived projects, the national spending watchdog has found.

The dispute with Education Minister Jan O’Sullivan over Junior Cert reform will continue into 2016, if she implements her proposals without teacher agreement, the leader of the secondary teachers’ union warned.

Craig McHugh disagrees with picketing the teachers who say going on strike is in the best interests of students

Philip Irwin, president of the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland, and Jan O'Sullivan, Minister for Education and Skills, debate today's strike action.

Debating the proposed changes to the Junior Cert cycle have bitterly divided the educational establishment.

Minister for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock, is this morning reassuring Leaving and Junior Cert students about Project maths.

The Junior Certificate, no longer a high-stake exam, represents a chance to teach the skill of learning, rather than the skill of taking exams, says Clive Byrne

EDUCATION Minister Ruairi Quinn is (predictably) calling for a drastic revision of our examination system, with a big increase of in continuous assessment, at the very time when our neighbour to the east is taking steps to go back to exams.

THE recession may be having a positive impact in schools as the numbers staying on to sit the Leaving Certificate have reached an all-time high.

MORE than 40 students have been given a late offer of a college place after hundreds of students had their Leaving Certificate biology results upgraded because the possible answers to a question worth less than 1% of the total marks were widened.

MORE than 80 students celebrated top marks with at least 11 As in their Junior Certificate results.

AGRI Aware is seeking the appointment of a dedicated agricultural science examination and assessment commissioner.

LEAVING Certificate students may be spared some stress in future after the Education Minister yesterday said she would seriously consider changes to exam timetables.

The State Exams Commission is again denying claims of "dumbing down" following new figures showing a dramatic improvement in Leaving Cert exam grades.

More than 57,000 students throughout the country are due to get their Leaving Cert results later this morning.

IBEC has called on the Government to change the Leaving Cert maths curriculum to make it less focused on final exams.