Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 15 June 2021
1067. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will engage with an organisation (details supplied) and the CAO to ensure that the HPAT results are released before the CAO course change option is closed or alternatively that the course change option is extended to at least 48 hours after the HPAT results are released. [31635/21]
View answerThe HPAT is independently administered by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) on behalf of the universities’ medical schools and the RCSI. The CAO process applications for undergraduate, and some postgraduate, courses on behalf of the Universities, Technological Universities and Institutes of Technology, in line with their institutional autonomy in relation to admissions. Neither I nor my Department has a function in the administration of the HPAT or the CAO and it is not within my remit to determine either the release date for the HPAT results, or the close date for the CAO's change of mind facility.
It is my understanding that the HPAT results are to be released in late June, and that the CAO's change of mind facility will close on 1st July at 5pm. Therefore there should be, at a minimum, one day between the release of HPAT results and the closure of the change of mind facility.
