A message from Yvonne O’Toole, our Principal, about the 2021/22 student class timetables. They will be releasing this week and you will be able to use them to set your full timetable for the year. You will receive an email…
Students hoping to apply for Medicine in one of the following seven UK universities are advised that they will need to register for BMAT: Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial, UC London, Lancaster, Leeds, Brighton and Sussex. This year, due to Covid,…
The Ministry of Education in Rome has announced that IMAT registrations are now open until June 22nd 2021 on the www.universitaly.it website. This test is for entry to medicine programmes (and a dentistry programme), taught through English, commencing this October The entrance test…
Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2021 Politics & Society (Higher Level) by Paul McAndrew and Dr. Jerome Devitt, Politics & Society teachers at The Institute of Education. This was a strong, topical paper with a pandemic focus. Questions were clear and…
Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2021 Classical Studies (Higher Level) by Tadgh McHugh, Classical Studies teacher at The Institute of Education. Overall this was a very fair and balanced paper that allowed students play to their strengths. There was a wide…
Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2021 Italian (Higher Level) by Erica Capello, Italian teacher at The Institute of Education. This was a topical and relevant higher-level paper. Despite being a little bit challenging in places, the wide range of excellent choices…
Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2021 Religious Education (Higher Level) by Paul McAndrew, Religious Education teacher at The Institute of Education. This was a clear and fair exam paper, with a lot more choice for students this year. Higher level thinking…
Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2021 Applied Maths (Higher Level) by Aidan Roantree, Applied Maths teacher at The Institute of Education. This was one of the nicest applied maths papers in years. Due to changes this year, students only had to…
Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2021 Economics (Higher Level) by Keith Hannigan, Economics teacher at The Institute of Education. Today students sat the first ever economics exam based on the new syllabus, which was both exciting and scary! As a new…
Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2021 Music- Listening & Composing papers (Higher Level) by Dr. Susan McCormick, Music teacher at The Institute of Education. The listening paper was very nice, but there were some challenges presented in the composing paper this…
Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2021 Design & Communication Graphics (Higher Level) by Robert Kiernan, DCG teacher at The Institute of Education. This was a very fair paper with an excellent variety of topics. Fantastic choice meant that no matter what…
Reaction to Leaving Certificate 2021 Accounting (Higher Level) by Ray O’Loughlin, Accounting teacher at The Institute of Education. Candidates who decided to sit the higher level accounting paper, as opposed to getting calculated grades, were rewarded today. All the questions…