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New era for schools in radical overhaul of exams

“Students will get marks for sporting performance, writing computer code or devising mental health campaigns under major changes to the Junior Cert syllabus …” (more)

[Katherine Donnelly, Independent, 28 October]

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  1. Pete Says:
    October 29th, 2013 at 15:53

    The UK switched from formal exams to course-work in 1986, and is now switching back to formal exams:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22841266

    If course-work didn’t work out well form them, why is it going to work for us?

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