ASTI demands cuts to exam schedule

SECONDARY school teachers have called for changes to the Leaving Certificate timetable to ensure that students do not sit more than five hours of exams in one day.

However they criticised suggestions by Education Minister Mary Hanafin that paper one of the Irish and English exams should be moved to earlier in the final term, to reduce pressure on students.

The minister was booed by delegates when she told them she was examining the feasibility of moving the dates of the examinations.