The State Examinations Commission has bowed to pressure from the Ombudsman for Children and disability rights organisations over a lack of transparency and said it would provide an explanation to disabled Leaving Cert students who are refused exam support in the 2016 exams. Following more than 60 complaints from parents, Ombudsman for Children Niall Muldoon has been critical of the administration of the Reasonable Accommodation in the Certificate Examinations (Race) scheme for exam support and expressed concern about the nature of some school-based assessment tests which are used to determine...
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