Students to log on for first-round offers

AROUND 38,000 college places are up for grabs when the Central Applications Office (CAO) makes first round offers on Monday.

Tens of thousands of applicants are expected to log on to www.cao.ie at 6am when they can check if they have been made an offer of one of their course choices.

This year’s 63,200 applicants include more than 42,500 students who sat the Leaving Certificate last June, of whom around 2,000 were repeating this year.