The 2022 Leaving Cert should be conducted on the same hybrid basis as was used in last year, a former mayor of the city has said.
Labour Galway City West councillor, Niall McNelis said the Minister for Education, Norma Foley, needs to “bring certainty” and “remove confusion” for students, by “accepting again” that the hybrid system of written exams and calculated grades will be needed again in 2022.
“Final year second level students have been through a huge amount of disruption over the last two years, with rolling closures, and significant upheaval in their learning environment because of the Covid-19 pandemic,” he said. “The Minister must accept that the education experience for students is still being negatively impacted by the pandemic.”
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Cllr McNelis [pictured above] said it was “only fair to give students clarity now”, so as to ensure that the next six months has a “defined path in place” for Leaving Cert students.
“Returning to the old rigid exam system that was last in place in 2019 will also be a step backward,” he said, “when the system is in urgent need of radical reform.”
