Exams marked by 600 non-teachers
Most were students training to become second-level teachers, with experience of teaching the relevant subject, but the numbers with no formal teaching experience shot up from a handful in 2013 to nearly 40 last year.
Around 10 non-teachers a year were hired as Leaving Certificate examiners from 2013 to 2017, all but two each year studying for a postgraduate masters in education qualification to work in second-level. They typically account for 0.3% to 0.7% of the average 1,730 people recruited each year to mark Leaving Certificate students’ work.
