We're 'codding ourselves' about the quality of our education system: Quinn
We have been "codding ourselves for years" that we have a wonderful education system, Education Minister Ruairi Quinn said today.
Mr Quinn's comments come as Junior Cert results showed high failure rates in maths and some languages.
A more student-friendly 'Project Maths' exam trialled in two dozen schools saw better results, and more than half of students took the higher level paper in it.
Minister Quinn said the new maths system would be rolled out to all schools in the coming years, and that other changes were on the way across the primary and secondary system:
"We have a problem in our education system that needs to be fixed. For years, we have been codding ourselves that we have this wonderful system.
"Elements of it are spectacular, but a lot of it is so-so and some of it has slipped by the way because of a certain degree of complacency by previous Ministers for Education. That is no longer there," he said.
