Teachers to debate whether to engage with Leaving Cert reforms

ASTI general secretary Kieran Christie and president Eamon Dennehy, at the union's 100th annual convention at the Clayton Silver Springs Hotel, Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

Post-primary teachers will today debate whether they will engage with proposed Leaving Certificate reforms, which will see teachers grading their own students through assessments worth 40%.

A motion before the Association of Secondary Teachers, Ireland (ASTI) will call for the union to refuse to engage in any discussion on Leaving Certificate reform until a “full, open, and transparent” study of the junior cycle has been conducted and its findings made public.