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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: I thank everyone for their contributions so far. I listened to all of it, right from the beginning, and I will try not to be repetitive. On the leaving certificate results this year - Senator Pauline O’Reilly touched on it – do we have a date for the results?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: When will we have a date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is normally 15 August. Can we look towards that date?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: The SEC will not know that information by the end of May, will it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That would be very good. I want to acknowledge the challenges in the work that has been done in the past two years. It has been challenging for everybody, not least the SEC. The sooner people know, the better. The lack of certainty has been very difficult. Has the SEC done a measurement of the hours of learning that have been missed over the past two years by either the teachers' or...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. It is important that the SEC knows as well in terms of determining examinations, to give everybody a fair chance. I know students this year are under severe pressure. What percentage of students who do their leaving certificate go onto higher and further education?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Okay. For the other 40%, how many go directly into employment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It would be useful as well. On other data collection, do we have time series data in terms of measuring the correlation between those who have grinds and extra tuition beyond what is provided within the public system? Do we have a correlation between examination results and educational attainment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Is it available? I will explain why it is important. How are we supposed to address the inequalities that are here? I am very concerned about the widening inequality gap between those who can afford the grinds and the extra tuition, as opposed to those who are sitting the same examination but cannot afford any of that, and perhaps come from homes that are not conducive to them...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: For sure I would measure it, because my concern is about the commodification of education. Just in terms of the affordability, we need to measure it. It is something that we need to look at and we will take up with the Department again as well. We need to be able to measure the gap as it is widening and the effect of the initiatives, such as the DEIS that Mr. Slattery mentioned, which...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: It is not an easy thing to measure, but it would be really useful for us to do that in terms of the decision-making around it. I have a number of questions. One of the other things is that people are concerned about the timelines. We have done so much talking about leaving certificate reform. In regard to the 40% continuous assessment, regardless of whether that will be externally...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: You can see why people would be concerned. It is because we are living in such a fast-moving external environment none of us here really know what education delivery is going to look like internationally in ten or 15 years in terms of opportunities, the position in wider society and all of that. It is just more than a perception that it is very slow. I am not sufficiently familiar with the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: People need to see that. I welcome that but I have a number of other questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: That is eight out of 40.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: If we keep measuring that as we go along, then we will be able to see progress around those but out of those 40 subjects, half of them are languages. How many of the others would the SEC classify as being technical or vocational?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Leaving Certificate Reform: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Apr 2022)
Rose Conway-Walsh: Yes, that is right.