The department of education are carrying out an investigation in to why results have improved so much over the last couple of decades…

A recent report shows that 1 in 2 maths teachers aren’t qualified to teach you maths. With maths failure rates on the rise every year, most of you need all the help you can get in this subject…

I know a fairly high percentage of you take grinds, or have taken grinds in something.

Most of you have the brains to get what you want / need in the leaving cert. Some people just seem to naturally do anything they’re told… they’ll have homework done as fast as it’s given to them, they’ll attend easter revision courses and grinds classes despite the fact they’ve aced their mocks…

There was an interesting article in The Irish Times today titled “Thousands of students face school shutdown“. It basically highlights the fact that the government have banned replacement workers so teachers & staff that are retiring or going on breaks for whatever reason cannot be replaced, meaning existing staff will be over stretched and they [...]

YOU are single handedly holding the weight of the nation on your shoulders. You must come up with an idea that will either (a) save money (b) make money. What do you do? Where do you start?

And it wasn’t study! Most of you were on a mid term break and looking at our stats, study wasn’t high on your list of priorities

Every day i go blank. These blog posts don’t write themselves. Behind each one is an idea. Something creative.

This site was set up, believe it or not, because i didn’t like the look of any other leaving cert sites at the time (in 2006). I still don’t like many of them in 2010

When you’re being taught about  a subject, you assume that your teacher is qualified to teach… you probably don’t even question their qualifications (i know i didn’t when i was at school). Surely that’s down to whoever hires them, whoever pays their wages and evaluates them.