Is the Leaving Cert Fit for Purpose?

Is the leaving cert really still fit for purpose?

This is the question we explore tonight, when we go inside our schools.

With the Oireachtas Education Committee meeting the various management bodies and teacher trade unions over the last number of weeks, coupled with recent calls from senators, TD celebrities, and journalists, Now more than ever, there seems to be a move towards Leaving Cert Reform.

In tonight's episode, I am joined by two of our resident guests,

Mark Walshe, a computer science and modern foreign languages teacher

and

Robert Chaney, a teacher of mathematics.

We discuss the calls for reform the reasons given for the need for such reform. And we ask the question, Is the leaving cert curriculum, really the correct target here? Or is it something else entirely? Such as the inequality in our society, the chronic underfunding of education and the pressure that is created by the CAO points race?