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Only Kenny knew Irish is the only compulsory subject for the LC

  • 16-02-2011 11:35pm
    #1
    axer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,517 ✭✭✭


    Much talk has been made about FG having plans to make Irish not compulsory for the LC. I see that he seems to be the only one out of the three leaders on the TG4 debate tonight that knew that it is the only compulsory subject for the leaving certificate.

    Surely if they are to attack the plan they must first learn the facts?


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  • #2
    Reilly616
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 374 ✭✭Reilly616


    "Croí-ábhar" refers to the core subjects. Since Maths and English are de facto compulsory, they fall within the term "core subjects". Presumably this was just lost in translation, Kenny using it to mean compulsory, the others using it as core. Not a big deal really...


  • #3
    nommm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 700 ✭✭✭nommm


    Are Maths and English not compulsory? I thought they were.


  • #4
    leincar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 683 ✭✭✭leincar


    Irish is the only compulsory subject for leaving cert.

    In 2005 Enda Kenny asked the then Minister of Education some questions on education. Her answers are at the bottom of the page.

    http://www.kildarestreet.com/wrans/?id=2005-11-29.2203.0


    In accordance with the rules and programme for secondary schools, the approved course for the established leaving certificate must include Irish and not less than four of the following examination subjects, all of which are optional: classical studies; ancient Greek; Latin; English; Hebrew studies; French; German; Italian; Spanish; history; geography; mathematics; applied mathematics; physics; chemistry; physics and chemistry; agricultural science; biology; agricultural economics; engineering; technical drawing; construction studies; home economics — scientific and social; accounting; business; economics; art, including crafts; music; Russian; Arabic; Japanese; and religious education.
    Rule 46 of the rules and programme for secondary schools and in my Department’s Circular Letter M10/94 make provision for exemption from the study of Irish in limited special circumstances. In the established leaving certificate examination, separate higher, ordinary and foundation level papers are set in the case of the subjects Irish and mathematics. In the case of the other subjects papers are set at both ordinary and higher levels. The subject economic history has been discontinued. It was examined for the last time in the leaving certificate examination in June 2005.
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