Sir, – This is an appeal on behalf of the class of 2022.
Please can the Department of Education release a definitive date for the Leaving Certificate results? The indecision to date is laughable and another example of the Civil Service, which is funded by the taxpayer, failing to make a timely decision.
These school-leavers want to move on from second-level education. However, many may have to defer university abroad for a year unless the results are released before the end of August or early September.
The UK and other EU countries have returned to normal results schedules.
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Yet the Department of Education cannot even pick a date to release the results, let alone return to the old schedule of mid-August.
For how many years will the Civil Service blame the pandemic for delays? – Yours, etc,
RUTH MARCHAND,
Dún Laoghaire,
Co Dublin.