Fewer Leaving Cert students receive offers from CAO
As close to 17,300 people who sought entry to third-level this year still await a first offer from the Central Applications Office (CAO) tomorrow, official figures show 38,840 people who were offered a place a week ago sat the Leaving Certificate in June.
They were among 52,288 people to be offered a course by the CAO nine days ago which was 260 more than at the same Round 1 offer stage a year ago. But, at the same time in 2015, 38,890 of those offered a place were among that year’s Leaving Certificate students.
