Education minister faces many tests in new role

The new education minister has worked in the classroom, but will rely on lessons learned in the political arena, writes Education Correspondent Niall Murray

ONE OF the biggest tests of Jan O’Sullivan’s political mettle will be how she decides to proceed on the roll out of a replacement for the Junior Certificate.

Her predecessor as education minister, Ruairi Quinn, failed to get across the line with the reform, ironically kick-started by Fianna Fáil’s Batt O’Keeffe in his short tenure in Marlborough Street.