Maths lesson

GIVEN the disappointing results in Leaving Cert maths this year, when only 11,000 students sat honours maths (over 3,000 fewer than sat honours Irish), are we to expect Fine Gael to blame compulsion and call for maths to be made an optional extra for the exam in future?

Fri, 18 Aug, 2006 - 01:00
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Dáithí MacCárthaigh

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