Foley: 'No time' to run a full procurement on company who built grading system

Norma Foley TD, Minister for Education said that any student who is given a higher offer due to the error or because they get better grades in November's exams will not have to pay fees.

There was "no time" to run a full procurement on the company which built the Leaving Cert predicted grading system, the education minister has confirmed.

It emerged on Wednesday that two errors, affecting 7,200 grades, had been discovered within the predicted grading system. Norma Foley said that a report had indicated that Canadian company Polymetrika International had made a mistake in one line of code out of 50,000, causing around 6,500 students receiving one result at least one grade lower than they should have received.