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LIVE - Education Minister press conference on #LeavingCert

"These are errors that should not have occured... The errors will not disadvantage any student," says Norma Foley.

"We knew one line out of 50,000 lines of code had a mistake in it... We knew it would have an impact."

Foley says We knew we had to make clear we knew exactly what impact before we made it known

Breaking

Leaving Cert error affected 7,200 grades.

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"Dept staff found a further error in the code. The results of CSPE were meant to be discarded in the system - they weren't... As a result, >6,000 students received a grade one grade lower than they should have done."

Minister Foley says some students received a higher grade than they should. They will not be affected.

"Their grades stand."

Students will be informed by text if they have been affected.

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"It will be distressing for students who thought this chapter was complete... I want to apologise to our LC students for the situation we are in and for the upset it has caused."

The Dept of Further and Higher Education will work with institutions "to see" how students will be able to take part in courses they should have been offered.

"Students have had an exceptionally difficult year... They don't need this upset and dismay. I really do appreciate that." Foley.

Work will finish in the coming days. We will not have final numbers until workstreams are finished.

Junior Cycle Irish, English and Maths were meant to be merged with their two BEST subjects. What actually happened was their two WORST subjects were taken.

410,000 subject.

60,000 students.

50,000 lines of code.

It's going to take a few days to figure it out says the Minister.

But here's what she says happened 👇

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Officials from the Department have informed educators. Students being texted.

"I absolutely accept that this will add to the anxiousness of students... Do I wish this hadn't arisen? Absolutely."

Yeah, I'd say so.