CAO points for entry into most college courses have increased significantly this year, new figures showGrade inflation in this year’s Leaving Cert results has seen CAO points rise up to 70 or 80 points at the very top end. At university level, many have recorded average points increases of between 20 and 30 points across a broad range of courses. Most higher education figures say the points increases are greater than expected , despite frantic efforts by the Government to ease upward pressure by creating thousands of extra third-level places. However, Government figures say the points increases would have been higher still were it not for a last-minute move to create an additional 2,000-plus third level places created in recent weeks. At Trinity, around 80 per cent of courses saw a points rise, with an average increase of 27 points.

Source: The Irish Times September 11, 2020 13:00 UTC