Officials from the Department of Education said the degree of pressure on those involved in establishing the calculated grades system was "extreme".

TWO Cork secondary school principals have said the enhanced Leaving Certificate results have not impacted the affected students in their schools, as they were already following their chosen trajectory with their previous results.

424 leaving certificate students have this morning received new college place offers. Round 4 CAO offers were published at 10am this morning and students have until next Tuesday to accept an offer if they wish to do so.

In the final part of our five day series on exams, ALAN WHITE shares some valuable advice and tips for parents, whose children are sitting the Junior Cert or Leaving Cert exams

Today we continue our series for exam students and parents. ALAN WHITE, second level teacher and Wellbeing Author, looks at study and stress and offers solutions on how to tackle it

This week we publish a five-day series by ALAN WHITE to help students and parents get through exam season. Today, in part two, the second level teacher and wellbeing author talks about organisation

In advance of the February 1 deadline, CAO communications officer, Eileen Keleghan, gives advice to potential applicants who have not yet started their application