Students urge policy makers on review

SECOND-LEVEL students have urged policy-makers to adopt whatever changes to the Junior Certificate programme arise from an ongoing review, as more than 56,000 students collected their results.

With some concerns again raised about the standards achieved in maths exams, focus is now turning to the outcome of the new Project Maths programme being taught in all 730 second-level schools from this month.

It will be examined for the first time in the 2012 Leaving Certificate and the following year’s Junior Certificate, with the hope that the subject is more understandable and appealing to students.