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- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: I will not allow-----
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: There are leaving certificate students listening to that. It is wrong that the Deputy is peddling that because exceptional students, whether in a community school, a DEIS school or a private school, will not be discriminated against because it is an all-school mark. It is a grade. It is a-----
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: It is a calculated grade coming from the school based on the performance.
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: I used the example of an incredible school in the city centre here, Larkin College, where I spoke to a teacher who talked about the progression within one year. That progression would be monitored. That progression will not disadvantage a student in any way.
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: If we get a new Government formed any time soon, there will be an education committee. The standardised system that we will look to bring in has not been finalised because we are going through the consultation, but it will be there shortly. The leaving certificate system is going into its 95th year. I know the Deputy spent most of his speech talking about its merits and demerits.
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: Give me ten seconds.
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: No matter what school they are in, every single student will be measured on their performance over two years. The teachers and the whole school community will have that evidence from the two years. That is what we are working on. I take on the Deputy's concerns.
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: I thank Deputy Gannon. He has been very constructively in this process. He highlighted the digital inequities. I know other people did, but the Deputy kept in touch with me and raised it. I thank him for that.
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: I hope I understood the question correctly. To be clear, the State Examinations Commission will have nothing to do with this process. Our legal advice states it cannot have anything to do with it, so that is the reason we are setting up the new group. There are two major stages; the first of which is the school-based stage involving teachers and their teaching colleagues. For example,...
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: The answer is "Yes". We have a continuity-of-learning section set up in the Department and we have been working on those issues for a number of weeks. We are looking now at continuity not just for this term but as some Members stated, for the transition for fifth-year students, and seeing where there are gaps for young people with disadvantage as well. We have a specific section working on...
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: The Deputy asked why the exams were cancelled. They were not cancelled; they were postponed to a date on which it will be safe to do them. We are pursuing the calculated grades system. The Deputy is correct in saying that it was not only public health advice that informed what the leaving certificate would look like. The student voice was quite instrumental and very significant. I...
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: We are working on the issue of fifth years.
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: As the Deputy is aware, the issue of equal pay for teachers was the subject of significant conversations prior to the election and the pandemic. Anything relating to the issue will form part of the next pay talks. The Deputy referred to indecision. To explain, once we postponed the exams to 29 July, I instructed my officials to look at the calculated grades model. I had reservations...
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: I thank both Deputies. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked about mature students. They will be treated in the same manner as every other student in terms of data, regardless of whether they are outside school. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae gave the example of music tuition. If someone is getting tuition outside the school setting, data and information from the tutor will be critical in assessing that...
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: The answer to the question is "Yes"; it is going ahead. We are working through it so we will have more information on that shortly-----
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: -----but it is going ahead.
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: As for what will happen in that regard, the teacher has the information, data and knowledge of the student and so will be looking to make an assessment. I will not pre-empt the decisions as to how that will happen because that will form part of the guidelines that will come out next week.
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: It has yet to be decided how that will happen but the project work, whether it is research or practical work, will be assessed by the teacher.
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: We will be looking at those on a case-by-case basis.
- Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)
Joe McHugh: Nobody wants students back in the classroom more than me. One of the things we found out in the time since 12 March is that while online platforms work and are helpful, we are missing-----