Ms Amber Sheridan O'Callaghan:

Whatever pathway someone takes after the junior or leaving certificate should be respected. Many people who want to go into a trade need their leaving certificate to do it and many of them drop out before then. Giving people the option to go into a trade after the junior certificate would be extremely beneficial and it would lower the dropout rate, people not getting jobs and things like that.

Continuous assessment would be beneficial because in college we have the option of picking a title within a topic. That way someone knows for sure they are doing something they like. They are writing about something they enjoy. It gives people the option to show their academic skills in a way that they want to. It would be important to bring that into secondary schools.