{"id":27816,"date":"2025-08-28T02:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/27816\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T02:29:09","slug":"john-walshe-cao-offers-leave-many-students-frustrated-as-high-achievers-lose-out-to-those-with-inflated-grades-from-previous-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/27816\/","title":{"rendered":"John Walshe: CAO offers leave many students frustrated as high achievers lose out to those with inflated grades from previous years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Almost 20,000 CAO applicants this year sat the Leaving Cert in previous years and benefitted from the pandemic-era measures\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Education Minister Helen McEntee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/56c44c7a-dfea-4572-a7e6-f330cbdb6d40.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Education Minister Helen McEntee<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As students and parents across Ireland pore over this year\u2019s college-entry requirements, many families face disappointment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\"> All the signs are that the same pattern  will be repeated next year and the system will remain under pressure for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost 20,000 CAO applicants this year sat the Leaving Cert in previous years and benefitted from the pandemic-era&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,14566,8531,15410,18,15915,14370,19,17,12550,22481,22482,15913],"class_list":{"0":"post-27816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cao-points","10":"tag-dcu","11":"tag-department-for-the-economy","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-going-to-college","14":"tag-helen-mcentee","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-leaving-certificate","18":"tag-norma-foley","19":"tag-trinity-college-dublin","20":"tag-ucd"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}