Report on college points system reform plans delayed

Students should find out soon how universities plan to change the college entry points system and help reduce the pressures of the Leaving Certificate.

Ruairi Quinn, the education minister, had been expecting a report from the Irish Universities Association (IUA) by the end of 2012, after they outlined initial proposals last August, but now accepts it may not be ready until early this year.

A taskforce chaired by NUI Maynooth president Professor Philip Nolan was set up to come back with more detail on those plans, which included suggestions that: