TUI: Leaving Cert reform to tackle CAO points race would be 'misdiagnosing real problem'

Clare Austick, president of the Union of Students in Ireland (USI), said: "The trajectory of a student’s educational experience should not be decided during one exam on a single day.” File photo

Changing the Leaving Cert assessment model to tackle the CAO points race would be a change based on a “misdiagnosis of the real problem”, an Oireachtas committee has heard.

Teachers’ and students’ unions met for a roundtable discussion with politicians on Leaving Cert reform. At the meeting of the education committee, Michael Gillespie from the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI), said the “excessive focus” on CAO points is not a product of the Leaving Certificate itself.