{"id":65969,"date":"2025-10-08T01:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T01:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/65969\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T01:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T01:27:09","slug":"leaving-cert-changes-wont-stand-up-to-ai-says-colm-orourke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/65969\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Cert changes won’t stand up to AI, says Colm O’Rourke"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Leaving Cert changes reportedly won’t stand up to AI, according to former school principal Colm O’Rourke.<\/p>\n

A new curriculum was introduced last month and includes revised courses for biology, chemistry, physics, business and classical languages.<\/p>\n

The new criteria for marking will see 40 per cent of students’ marks from work submitted during class time.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Newstalk, Colm O\u2019Rourke said that the new curriculum is vulnerable to AI.<\/p>\n

“There is a better way to go, and that is the same as is done with the oral exams in languages, the practical exams and things like art or construction studies.<\/p>\n

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\"Twice<\/p>\n

Ireland<\/p>\n

Twice as many Leaving Cert students have results withheld over cheating<\/p>\n

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“There will have to be individual attention given to each student, insofar as they will be allowed to present some material.”<\/p>\n

Distinguishing between gaining knowledge, which takes a long time, and passing exams, Mr O’Rourke said only the latter can be achieved using AI.<\/p>\n

In his column in the Irish Independent<\/a>, he wrote: “The problem for our education system is it takes a long time to get anything done. These new methods of assessment, which were probably generated a decade ago and which I, as a school principal, would have \u00adadvocated at the time, have been overtaken by events.<\/p>\n

“While we bring them into our second-level system, third-level institutions both here and in other countries are moving away from this type of marking system for the obvious \u00adreason. It is too easy to cheat.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new Leaving Cert changes reportedly won’t stand up to AI, according to former school principal Colm O’Rourke.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-65969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}