“Written exams would account for only 50 per cent of the marks in the revised Junior Cert under new proposals designed to radically overhaul the grading system.The proposals place a heavy emphasis on school-based portfolio work in a move which could be opposed by the main second-level teacher union, the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland ASTI. The confidential briefing document has been prepared at Minister for Education Ruairí Quinn’s request …” (more)
[Seán Flynn, Irish Times, 26 August]