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Publication of redeveloped Primary School Curriculum

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Senior Cycle

NCCA are currently seeking expressions of interests from schools to be involved in an exciting initiative that is looking to develop proposals on flexible pathways in senior cycle.

A pathway of books across grass

​Senior Cycle education caters for students in the 15 to 19 year age group. It includes an optional Transition Year, which follows immediately after Junior Cycle.  During the final two years of Senior Cycle students take one of four programmes: the Leaving Certificate Established (LCE), the Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme (LCVP),  the Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA) or a Senior Cycle Level1/Level 2 Learning Programme (SCL1LP/SCL2LP).