Further errors discovered with Leaving Cert code during review

Details of these errors were first made public last Wednesday, although Norma Foley and the department had learnt of the errors the prior week.

The Department of Education is standing over its Leaving Cert calculated grades system after further errors were discovered following an external review of the code that caused thousands of students to receive incorrect grades.

A review by external contractor Educational Testing Services (ETS) published this Saturday evening discovered further issues within the code used by the department to standardise results.