Gareth O'Callaghan: It's the learning that changes your life, not the results

The revamp of the Leaving Cert is unworkable because of AI, writes Gareth O'Callaghan

The exam style is due to be remodelled in the next four years, with each subject having a 40% project assessment and written exams in June making up the remaining 60%. File photo: Domnick Walsh © Eye Focus LTD

School teachers are familiar with the old proverb that students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. Everyone has a favourite teacher from somewhere back in their younger years.

I remember that August afternoon when the head brother handed me the sealed envelope. I had been working earlier in the day, so I was the last of the class of ‘78 to receive my exam results. As I stared at it unopened, I couldn’t help thinking it had felt like a lifetime since I’d sat the exams.