Students hit by course confusion

STUDENTS are discovering that college courses they picked on their CAO forms six months ago are not what they expected, parents have warned.

The trend which emerged from calls to the National Parents Council (Post Primary) helpline after the first-round CAO college offers is being attributed to poor access to guidance counsellors in secondary schools.

An eighth of the hundreds of calls received last week were from students or their parents seeking information about courses they had been offered.