Irish Examiner view: We need a radical overhaul of our CAO system

Need to move away from our 'obsession with institutions' and focus on career pathways

Students are under a lot of pressure to get enough points for a third-level place.

There will be many words of reassurance for the 60,000-plus students who receive their Leaving Cert results today and yet, despite the platitudes, the media glare will invariably focus on the record-breakers and straight-A candidates.

Those achievements certainly deserve to be singled out, particularly in a rollercoaster pandemic year that comes to an end for the class of 2021 with likely grade inflation and an unprecedented demand on college places.