“Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn hopes to roll out a remodelled Junior Cert in September of next year as part of a programme of education reform. Addressing the Association of Secretary Teachers Ireland (ASTI) conference yesterday he said: ‘We have all – myself included – been codding ourselves about our education system being the best in the world. That ain’t true anymore …'” (more)
[Seán Flynn, Irish Times, 27 April]