Junior Cert students given deadline over English exam

Junior Certificate students whose teachers are on industrial action will have until the end of April to complete all work needed to avoid losing 10% of marks in English.

The new deadlines will be used if the Association and Secondary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) accepts pay and junior cycle reform proposals, but the union’s leadership is recommending the 17,500 members reject them in voting later this month.

Schools have been sent the revised dates for completing various elements of the new assessments in English, the first subject in which the reforms have taken effect.