Priority to be given to new Leaving Cert maths syllabus
17/08/2005 - 10:56:47Education Minister Mary Hanafin has asked the Curriculum Board to prioritise a new maths syllabus for Leaving Cert students.
Ms Hanafin said today that she had made the request due to the high failure rate in both Ordinary and Higher Level maths in recent years.
Exam results out today show that 12.5% of students who sat Ordinary Level maths failed to pass, as did 4.2% of students who sat the Higher Level paper.
Business groups have expressed concern that this is ruling many students out of the very courses that the Government is trying to promote.
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