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Seven revised Leaving Cert curriculums will not be introduced as planned as Normal Foley halts teacher-based assessment

Education Minister Norma Foley meeting people in the Fianna Fáil tent during the National Ploughing Championships at Ratheniska, Co Laois. Pictures: Gráinne Ní Aodha/PA

Education Minister Norma Foley has halted plans for teacher-based assessment to be incorporated into a new State examinations system, which means that revised curriculums in seven Leaving Certificate subjects will not now be introduced in two years’ time.

This is not the first policy reversal of this type: Earlier this year a plan to examine students in English and Irish at the end of fifth year was also halted.