I’m only young, so it’s fair to say I don’t follow the ins and outs of education policy. But I do hear, from my friends and on the news, about how incredibly stressful the Leaving Cert is ...

A record-breaking 140,000 students will begin their Leaving Certificate and Junior Cycle exams today. It means the delivery of this year’s State exams is an even bigger logistical exercise than ...

Irish students campaign to have Irish Sign Language as a Leaving Cert subject According to Chime, the national charity for deaf and hard of hearing people, the Irish education system has over ...

Amongst the thousands of this year's Leaving Cert students, one is a little bit different - Bernadette Hayden, from Co Kildare, sat the Leaving Cert Irish exam at 83 years old.

A record 136,160 students will sit the Leaving Certificate, Leaving ­Certificate Applied (LCA) and Junior Cycle examinations across the country today.

Ten students at the school have received the maximum Leaving Cert points of 625, and four have been awarded seven H1 grades. In total, 144 students are receiving their results today at the school ...

Teachers who sign up to mark this year’s Leaving Cert papers will receive an additional bonus of €900 as part of a bid to recruit more examiners. Those who sign up to mark this year’s Junior ...

The results of next year's Leaving Certificate is likely to be delayed again. It will be the forth year in a row that the results have been pushed back.

Students sitting the Leaving Cert now have the chance to study one of the greatest films of all time.'The Shawshank Redemption' is among the films added to the ...

Ms Foley will soon announce students will not have to the €116 charge for the Leaving Cert or the €109 fee for the Junior Cert. The decision follows the return of written exams this year after ...

Minister for Education Norma Foley said she had a "positive and constructive" engagement today with partners on Leaving Cert 2022.