Schools’ league survey ‘not the true picture’

PRINCIPALS, teachers and parents have criticised a survey showing how many students from every school in the country went to university last year.

They claimed the county-by-county lists in this week’s Irish Farmers’ Journal did not reflect the true picture.

The survey ranked schools by the percentage of school-leavers who went to each of the country’s seven universities. It did not take into account numbers going to institutes of technology, agricultural colleges and other institutions.