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Universities Confirm They’ll Use Calculated Grades for Admissions
Students who opt to sit postponed leaving certificate exams will not be able to do so in time to start college in 2020/21.
‘Too Early to Say’ When Freshers Will Start College, Says Trinity
The government's website has identified late September or early October as a date for when college courses will start.
Calculated Grades Confirmed for Leaving Cert Students, Exams Postponed
Students will be given the option of sitting the leaving certificate at an unspecified later date, or get calculated grades.
Trinity Researchers Launch Online Learning Centre for Primary Students
The programme, featuring science videos and experiments, hopes to help students learning from home due to the pandemic.
College Green to be Pedestrianised for a Year in Dublin Re-Opening Plans
The area in front of Trinity, which extends down to Dame St, will be shut off to traffic after 11am each day as part of plans to ease lockdown restrictions.
Trinity to Push Ahead With TTEC Plans, With State Investment ‘Critical’
Trinity's chief innovation and enterprise officer said plans for the campus are ‘robust’, and built to withstand economic turbulence.
Leaving Cert Set to Be Replaced by Predicted Grades, Say Reports
If new plans for the leaving certificate are approved by cabinet, students will receive grades based on their coursework.
Summer Series Not Cancelled: College Rows Back on Earlier Confirmation
Discussions are underway surrounding the fate of the concerts, with The Specials, Beck and Michael Kiwanuka on the setlist.
College Could Lose €40m Commercial Revenue by September 2020
Trinity’s Summer Series looks unlikely to proceed, and College says ‘a significant portion’ of its losses will lie in revenue lost over the summer.
Uncertainty Over Fate of Freshers’ Fair, With Social Distancing Likely
TCDSU president Laura Beston said that ‘any event on campus must comply with all regulations including social distancing’.