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#872 Does the Leaving Cert Reward Memory Rather Than Intelligence?
Fewer Than 100 Points to College Lecturer: Are We Lying to Teenagers About the Leaving Cert?
Niall talks to Cleo Knight, Ms Offaly 2026, who left school with fewer than 100 Leaving Certificate points believing she was not academic and that higher education was not for her. The only course she thought was available to her was jam-making, but Cleo had very different ambitions.
Today, she is a Business and Media lecturer, a model and the coordinator of an Honours Degree in Business and Psychology. Through Further Education, Cleo found an alternative route into college and proved that one set of…
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