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.

The Minister for Defence is entitled to change the rules for admission to the Army Cadet School and a disappointed student cannot seek to bind him to any particular set of rules, the High Court has been told.

It's said to be relaxing the rules as a one-off in the interests of fairness.

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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.

A British-based fish is being put on a diet after only eating chocolate.

Former Enron Corporation chief executive officer Jeffrey Skilling, facing decades in prison for his company’s collapse, insisted he was innocent yet remorseful today as he appeared before the judge who will sentence him.