Foley defends decision to keep results at a record high out out of ‘fairness’ for students
Inflated grades were creating “false expectations” for some lower-achieving students, he said, who may end up struggling in their courses and dropping out. He told The Irish Times that provisional figures show student dropout levels – which fell to a historic low in the early years of Covid – have already climbed back to pre-Covid levels and “possibly might end up worse”.
“I’ve had emails from parents and students today and some feel they are being excluded from studying in their own country. You don’t have to be a Sinn Féin republican to feel like that. They want to study in another part of Ireland. and they feel it is being made infinitely harder for them to do so.”
“It doesn’t create a level playing field for students across Ireland, with A-level students who are already disadvantaged in how their results are converted to CAO points,” she said. “I’m disappointed that for many reasons – economic, political, social – we need to have more Northern Ireland students in the South. This is how we build a better future for all of us across the island of Ireland.”
When asked if she was ruling out inflated grade next year, she said she was not, and pointed out that grade inflation was also a factor in higher education.
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