Aspiring doctors will be breathing a sigh of relief today, following a widespread reduction in the CAO points required for medicine. The impact of the HPAT aptitude test, which was introduced a ...

Every student’s original Leaving Cert score, plus any additional CAO points added by colleges to ... If you received a provisional offer from Ucas but did not achieve the required grades in ...

My daughter is interested in becoming a therapist but CAO entry points are high ... Both nursing and paramedic science require 112 UCAS points, which can be made up from both higher and ordinary ...

Every year we focus on the high points race as symptomatic of general competition for higher education places. This encourages us to think about CAO points as reflecting a value on a course e.g ...

Mon, 19 Aug, 2013 Nine of the CAO courses still on offer require 570 points or more There are still nine courses filled by colleges through the CAO that require at least 570 Leaving Certificate ...

Points remain high overall and many are up, but there was some easing of pressure, particularly in sharply contested healthcare and education courses. The softening at the top of the CAO table ...

CAO points awarded to students based on their performance in the Leaving Certificate and required to secure a place in college are “highly likely” to return to record levels this year.