Educational Reform
Dail Éireann — 2021-11-23
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Richard Boyd Barrett (PBP), Dún Laoghaire

It is our view the leaving certificate should go because it has outlived its usefulness. It is a gatekeeping and streaming exercise which perpetuates inequality and limits or streams access to third level education. The Minister might not agree with all of that but she has committed to some sort of review of the leaving certificate. I want to know the status of that review because, particularly after Covid, a root-and-branch review is long overdue.

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Sitting date: 2021-11-23