Gifts for teachers will be considered as a serious attempt to influence Leaving Cert grades under new guidelines being issued to schools today.
It will include a section on what constitutes trying to influence a teacher with gifts ahead of the exams, saying that will be treated as a serious breach of the system.
Teachers will be given a guide to the predictive grading system to be used in this year’s state exams.
The Education Minister Joe McHugh says a students’ results won’t be based on any single exam including the mocks.
The Donegal TD says they’re looking at the issue of how students taking classes outside school will be graded:
