Yes, but I wonder if you compared results this year with results from 15 or 20 years ago would there be a marked difference? I suspect there would.
from teachers i know, over the years whole difficult chunks are eliminated or simplified from the core curriculum.
imo it has led to the bar being lowered for university courses as an A1 for geography which are achievable can get you a whopping 100 points helping the student on their way to a degree in English - arts is any uni is now less than 400 in total.
Doubt teaching methods have improved - where is the incentive for teachers to raise thier game?
We have the highest paid teachers, on an hourly basis, of any country in the world, and that is before their "entitlement" to more than 30 days annual sick pay is taken into account.
With teaching standards like that, no wonder the country is stuffed
"My father, who used to sit on interview boards, says that most interviewers would know the quality of various colleges and degree courses and wouldn't really rate some of them or take them into account. Seems a shame for kids to be wasting their time on courses that don't really count in the end. "
Liaconn, Could you name these colleges / Courses please. It would be very useful for people to know before they send their sons / daughters to them. LS.
I sat the leaving cert 10 years ago. I was obvious to me at that stage from looking at past papers that certain subject like maths had been made easier.
Perhaps this links in with the massive explosion of numbers attending 3rd level?
Liaconn, Could you name these colleges / Courses please. It would be very useful for people to know before they send their sons / daughters to them. LS.
Probably not a good idea to name them on this forum - dont want AAM getting sued etc.
But suffice to say that typcially these colleges would recruit outside the CAO system or have very low points in the CAO, be privately owned and have their degrees awarded by non-Irish sources e.g. former polytechnics from the UK.
Not necessarily. The engerineering programme in one Dublin Univestity is considered inferior to others including the DIT. It has always been this way. Certain Universities have better reputations in certain courses. They compete against each other.
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