Save the Junior Cert and make savings at very expensive university level

THE attack by Dr Florence Craven on the Junior Certificate (Letters, November 9) defies logic. She begins by stating that it “serves no practical purpose”.

The Junior Cert provides the first objective standard by which thousands of students have some measure of their abilities in a wide range of subjects.

It provides a focus for study mid way through the secondary school system. It provides the first run at actually sitting