The controversy centred on accusations that the city of Derry had been deliberately denied Northern Ireland’s second university for fear it would fuel Catholic assertiveness on civil rights issues. The documents-based question was about the Coleraine University controversy in the 1960s, which had a background role in the Northern Troubles. On the other hand, Ms Cashell thought there was good choice and “lovely questions” in the US section, including the one on the economy and another on developments in race relations 1945-89. Mr Irwin, of The High School, Rathgar, Dublin, liked the broad nature of the questions, which students could “go at” because of the extra time, although he said the one on the strengths and weaknesses of the US economy between 19 was “daunting”. Susan Cashell, a teacher at the Institute of Education, Dublin said the added time was “such a bonus it should be adopted permanently.Īssociation of Secondary Teachers’ Ireland (ASTI) subject representative Philip Irwin, agreed that the concession to students, which gave them more time to read and write, was “very good”. He said with three essays “You can have really good students who are slow writers and don’t do as well as they should”. Mr Westman, of Mountmellick Community School, Co Laois, said it was a very fair exam, helped by the reduction in the number of essays to be written. Instead of having to write three essays and answer another question, based on documents supplied, in two hours and 50 minutes, in 20, students had to write two essays and answer a documents-based question in the same time period. ![]() ![]() Like all Leaving Cert exams this year, the disruption caused by Covid has meant extra choice and fewer questions to answer and, because of the amount of writing involved on the paper, history is one of the subjects where teachers feel particularly strongly about the benefits to students. For the second year in a row, the concessions on the Leaving Cert History paper have turned it from being a “speed writing test to one where students can think a lot more and get their knowledge on to paper,” according Niall Westman, a Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) subject representative.
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