Medicine places may still be up for grabs for students

LEAVING Certificate students may still be able to apply for entry to medicine and other health science courses under proposals by a group of experts.

Education Minister Noel Dempsey announced last August that places on high- demand courses would only be available to degree holders from 2007 to ease pressure on school-leavers seeking top points in their exams to gain entry.

But a working group set up by Mr Dempsey and Health Minister Micheál Martin to implement the plans has proposed that entry also be open to a number of Leaving Cert students.