Leaving Certificate results: Overhaul of third-level structure

THE Leaving Certificate results are out today and the Central Applications Office (CAO) will make its first offers of third level places next Monday. Over 47,000 Leaving Cert students had applied to the CAO this year.

Too much emphasis in secondary education is now about going on to college or university. The head of the State Examinations Commission warned earlier this year that too many students were making a wrong choice in taking higher level mathematics just because of the double points on offer.

The universities are contemplating a scheme whereby bonus points would be offered in certain subjects that would be relevant to the course for which a particular student has applied.