Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 26 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Andrea Feeney:

There was a specific question for the SEC regarding the network schools and the two streams in a different year. We have previous experience of this. Within Project Maths when maths was introduced at senior cycle, it was done in that way. It was rolled out to network schools initially and then into all schools. In that example, the subject was the same. We have recently been using network schools for new subjects like physical education and computer science and will do the same with climate action and drama, film and theatre studies. We have experience of both – for an existing subject, as in the case of Project Maths, and for new subjects like physical education and computer science.