Tagged: Leaving Certificate
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Leaving Cert student builds study notes community for his peers News
10.04.2013 The Leaving Certificate looms ever closer for sixth-year students in Ireland, with oral examinations starting next week. But with the help of self-taught web developer and... -
PoetryBeo app makes Irish Leaving Cert poetry come alive News
19.03.2013 For Leaving Certificate students, the date of their final exams is looming, but modern-day sixth-years can rest assured that when it comes to the poetry section of Irish paper... -
Leaving Cert student launches iOS exam paper app for fellow students News
08.02.2013 Cork Leaving Cert student and CoderDojo member Dylan Varian has published an app on the Apple App Store that provides Leaving and Junior Cert students and their teachers with...Categories: Wireless Communications, Software & Web Development, Software, Phones, Education, Consumer Tech, Apps -
New Leaving Cert revision tool Clevernotes.ie launches News
06.02.2013 Online learning start-up Apierian has launched a new website called Clevernotes.ie that aims to help students prepare for the Leaving Cert exams via online tools, such as... -
IDA Ireland tells Class of 2013 students their best hopes lie in ICT industry News
17.01.2013 IDA Ireland has told Leaving Cert students about to file their CAO applications that the best job opportunities for the future will lie in ICT, digital media and language-based...Tags: Digital Media, CAO, Leaving Certificate, IDA Ireland, Software, ICT, Engineering, Start-ups, Third Level, Science -
New website TheMathsTutor.ie launches to focus on project maths News
16.10.2012 A new e-learning website called TheMathsTutor.ie that is honing in specifically on project maths for Junior and Leaving Cert students is officially launching this week during... -
Universities to propose radical shake-up of college points system News
21.08.2012 Several universities are expected to submit proposals to Education Minister Ruairi Quinn today about a new structure for selecting students for third level places that may... -
CAO crunchtime as bonus points and points system come under the spotlight News
20.08.2012 What a difference a few days can make. Last week the nation of Ireland rejoiced when there was a 35pc surge in the number of students taking higher level maths and bonus points... -
It adds up to jobs potential – 35pc surge in Leaving Cert students taking higher-level maths News
15.08.2012 There was a 35pc surge in the number of students taking higher-level maths in Ireland's Leaving Cert this year, resulting in many of them receiving 25 extra CAO bonus points....Categories: Upskilling, Software & Web Development, Software, R&D, Engineering, Education, Economy, Digital Media, Digital Business, Computers -
Irish Times debuts new ‘Campus Times’ online resource for students News
15.08.2012 The Irish Times has revealed a new online resource for students in partnership with the Union of Students in Ireland (USI) called Campus Times. The new service is aimed at... -
DSE encourages students to keep STEM courses on their CAO forms News
27.06.2012 As the Central Applications Office (CAO) ‘change of mind’ deadline approaches, Discover Science and Engineering (DSE) is encouraging students who have just completed their... -
Pilot programme looks to upskill Ireland's second-level students around digital technologies News
21.06.2012 With Ireland’s current skills gap in the IT sector, particularly around coding and app development, a new pilot programme at the Government’s Digital Hub initiative has been... -
Two mothers launch one-stop website for Leaving Cert students News
06.06.2012 MyPoints.ie, a new online portal for Leaving Cert students, may be a welcome resource for stressed-out students sitting their State exams today.Categories: Web Design, Web 2.0, Web, Social Media, Resources, Internet, Education, Digital Media, Careers and Employment, Career Advice -
Ireland needs data scientists: EMC makes the case for STEM courses News
29.05.2012 EMC has warned that Ireland could face a skills shortage in big data analytics, whereas a commitment to education in this area could make the country a worldwide data hub.Tags: Enterprise, Jobs, Skills, Training, Leaving Certificate, Mathematics, Education, Engineering, Technology, Science, Big Data, EMC -
Ireland needs to nurture skills needs for digital world News
27.09.2011 TelecityGroup (Ireland), formerly Data Electronics, has a three-decade pedigree of supporting the data needs of Irish and global organisations. Managing director Maurice Mortell...Categories: Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Energy, Education, Economy, Digital 21, Development, Data Centre -
Engineer leader lashes ‘total systemic failure’ of maths education News
15.09.2011 There has been a total systemic failure in the teaching of maths in Ireland, the new president of Engineers Ireland PJ Rudden said last night, and warned it may take a decade or...Categories: Science, Infrastructure Management, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Economy, Digital 21 -
New app provides easy access to past Leaving Cert papers News
24.08.2011 A Cork-based software developer has released a new app that provides easy access to past examination papers and marketing schemes for all Leaving Certificate subjects from 2001...Categories: Apps, Apps Zone, Education, Mobility, Software & Web Development, Wireless Communications -
Numbers still don’t add up for Leaving Cert maths and sciences News
17.08.2011 It’s a glass half-full, half-empty kind of picture. On the one hand, we can rejoice that the numbers of Irish students achieving A, B and C grades in high-level maths is at its... -
Meath VEC first second-level schools to go to the cloud News
13.06.2011 Meath VEC’s network of nine secondary schools have become Ireland’s first second-level institutions to deploy centrally managed cloud computing.