The announcement of the postponement of the 2020 Leaving Certificate on May 8th means that all students are to be offered the option of receiving Calculated Grades for the subjects they are studying and the alternative of sitting the 2020 Leaving Certificate examinations at a date in the future when it is considered safe to hold the examinations.
It is my intention that results will be available as close as possible to the intended date on which the Leaving Cert examination results were originally due.
I am very conscious of the thousands of students who have applied to study in Northern Ireland, Britain, Europe and elsewhere. I have personally spoken with relevant Ministers in the UK. Contacts with the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland continue, as well as contacts with officials in the other devolved Governments in the UK. Departmental officials are engaging directly with UCAS to work through the key issues. I have also written to my counterparts across the European Union to explain the decision regarding the Leaving Certificate and to ask for as much flexibility as possible for students coming from Ireland to study in other Member States.
