Teachers unions to consider compromise plan on Junior Cycle

The executive councils of the ASTI and TUI will meet later to decide how to respond to a compromise plan for reforming theJunior Cycle.

It follows on-going talks between the Department of Education and second level teachers unions in recent months regarding school-based assessments.

The unions have to decide whether to accept the proposals drawn up by Dr Pauric Travers, the former president of St Patrick’s College in Drumcondra, Dublin.

Under Dr Travers’s plan, the new junior cycle would be split in two - where one part would be marked by the State Examinations Commission through the traditional format and the other part would come from teacher assessments, carried out in the second and third year of secondary school.