Parents of 3rd and 6th year students are being advised that State examination entry fees will apply again in 2026, following ...

The number of students caught cheating in their Leaving Cert and Junior Cert exams has more than doubled in the space of a year. The State Examinations Commission (SEC) said 86 results had been ...

External examinations staff, mainly comprised of school teachers, last year shared a pay-pot of €67.1 million for correcting and supervising state exams. According to the 2024 annual accounts for the ...

Officials from the State Examinations Commission (SEC) are investigating claims of a breach of exam rules after a teacher is alleged to have assisted a number of students who were completing their ...

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Around 30,000 students will be granted ten minutes of extra time in this year's Leaving and Junior Cycle written examinations as part of an interim initiative for candidates with additional needs. The ...

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About 30,000 students with special educational needs will receive additional time in the upcoming State exams as part of the first "milestone" change to time arrangements in more than 20 years.

More than 73,000 students are receiving the results of their Junior Cycle examinations. Numbers sitting the exam are very slightly up on last year and this is the third year in a row that more than 70 ...

China’s national college entrance exams, known as the “gaokao, finished earlier this week. Crowds of parents gathered outside exam centres with sunflowers – which symbolise their hopes for academic ...

With October marking Dyslexia Awareness Month, an advocacy group has repeated its calls for extra times in Junior Cycle and Leaving Cert exams for young people who are dyslexic, dyscalculic or ...