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The Department of Education should abandon the Junior Certificate this year and concentrate on getting the Leaving Certificate ‘done properly’, a leading education expert has said.
The ‘time-consuming token nonsense’ of classroom-based assessments should also be shelved in the pandemic, according to Kevin Williams, a research fellow at DCU, author and former president of the Educational Studies Association of Ireland.
His intervention comes after Education Minister Norma Foley was forced into a U-turn this week on plans for exam year students to attend school three days a week. When the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI) and Teachers Union of Ireland (TUI) both directed their members to not cooperate with the in class Leaving Cert. plan Minister Foley was forced to back down.