The moment of destiny is coming for the second Leaving Certificate Irish course for fluent speakers

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The moment of destiny is coming for the second Leaving Certificate Irish course for fluent speakers
The Moment Of Destiny Is Coming For The Second Leaving

The Minister for Education has received advice that the case for bonus points for the new Irish language course will be very popular next year.

The turning point is coming for the new Leaving Certificate Irish course for fluent speakers, a course that has been demanded by education experts for almost 40 years.

The Minister for Education has been advised that the issue of bonus points for the new Irish language course will be very popular next year, and it is clear that officials in his Department are of the opinion that a decision must be made shortly.

Many experts are of the opinion that the new Irish course will fail if additional marks are not available for undertaking it, but it is not yet clear, however, that there is an appetite in the Department of Education for the bonus marks. come in.

The National Council for Curriculum and Assessment (NCCA) is currently developing two new courses for Irish in the Leaving Certificate, a more challenging course for native and other fluent speakers and a course for other students in the country.

Both draft courses – L1 and L2 – are due to be published next year and a public consultation process on the new courses is expected to begin “within a few months”.

Earlier this year, Education Minister Norma Foley told Tuairisc.ie that she has not yet made a decision on whether or not bonus points will be available to encourage Leaving Certificate students to take up the new Irish course being developed for fluent speakers.

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But it is clear from a document published this week that officials in his department believe the Minister will have to address the issue soon.

The information document prepared for the Minister states that the Irish language community and other groups are “very interested” in the bonus marks for the new course and that this is likely to emerge in the public consultation process. It is said that the bonus marks are not a “right” issue for the NCCA.

The Minister is reminded in the information document that the new Irish language courses are an integral part of the Government’s Gaeltacht Education Policy.

That policy does not mention bonus marks to a greater or lesser extent, a defect found on that part of the policy when it was published.

The policy states that Gaeltacht schools will be required to provide the new course for their students and encourage them to undertake it.

It is promised that measures will be introduced to give this encouragement to students but these measures only mention a third level bursary scheme for students who achieve a certain grade in the new course and the new course being required for certain ‘Irish’ courses at the third level.

Speaking to Tuairisc.ie earlier this year, Minister Foley said that the development of the new courses and the question of how to “encourage” students in Gaeltacht and all-Irish schools made the course more “challenging” to do.

The Minister for Education stated that officials of his Department and the NCCA were “considering a range of issues” in relation to the establishment of the new Irish language courses and that no decision had yet been made “regarding the introduction of bonus points” as a stimulus “to study the specification. Promoting L1 ”.

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COGG is one of the educational organizations that has serious doubts about the success of the new course in the absence of rewards. COGG Chairman Dónal Ó hAiniféin expressed that skepticism at a meeting of an Oireachtas committee last year.

it is said in research carried out by the Irish Language Center at Maynooth University about the Leaving Certificate Irish course that the issue of demand for the new Leaving Certificate course for Gaeltacht and all-Irish schools is a big issue.

“Can students not be eager to take the most challenging exam if there is no added advantage for them?” asked in the report Revisions to the Leaving Certificate Irish Examination: An Analysis of their Impact.

The second Leaving Certificate Irish syllabus has been required for almost forty years. Various education experts are of the opinion that it is needed more challenge from native speakers and other fluent speakers if their language skills are to be developed.

A demanding course with the same personal challenge and development as, for example, the higher level English syllabus.