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About the College Progression Data on Schooldays.ie
Information on numbers sitting the Leaving Cert and College Places were provided by the Examinations Commission and the assorted governing bodies of the 3rd Level institutions. The colleges advise that the schools' data is provided for administrative purposes and that they cannot stand over the accuracy of the information if used for any other purposes. Data for the following colleges is available on our site for the last six years
Data for the following colleges are shown from this year (2011) onwards only.
Leaving Certificate Sits - this data is provided by the State Examinations Commission and includes details of every school with 10 or more Leaving Certificate students in 2011. The figures for a school may include candidates who sat the Leaving Certificate in a school examination centre but were not students of that school.
These Intitutions below provide for the following notes to be read in conjunction with their statistics.
University of Limerick
This schools data originates at the State Examinations Commission. It is forwarded to the Central Applications Office, who forwards it to the Higher Education Institutes. As the data is provided to the university for particular administrative purposes, the university cannot stand over the accuracy of the data if it is used for any other purpose. Prior to 2004/05 the data showed only the second level institution where candidates first sat the Leaving Certificate and did not show the institution in which candidates repeated the examination. The second level institution indicated in that data, did not, therefore, necessarily reflect the second level institution from which students were admitted to the university. For the years, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2009/10 and 2010/11 the data includes every institution in which a candidate sat the examination. The data will not therefore reflect the number of incoming students in to the university this year, because in cases where, for example, a candidate sat the examination twice, that candidate will appear as a statistic under both institutions and be doubly entered in the data. The data therefore represents the number of examinations taken, rather than the number of entrants to the university.
University College Cork
This schools data is released in the form in which it is currently held in the University College Cork’s student information system. The data are supplied, to the University by the Central Applications Office (CAO), for particular administrative purposes and the University cannot stand over the reliability of the data if used for another purpose. The school data has not been verified with each individual student and excludes mature students and Non-EU students. The data refers to all schools where the student sat a Leaving Certificate Examination (for many students entry requirements are achieved in the first Leaving Certificate but in a second sitting higher points may be scored - but without the entry requirements the student would not be credited with the 'higher results').
Trinity College, Dublin
The data presented represents the last School in which the registered student attended. It includes repeats and deferrals. The University of Dublin, Trinity College is not bound by any errors or omission from the data provided.
University College Dublin
“This schools data originates at the State Examinations Commission. It is forwarded to the Central Applications Office, who forward it to the Higher Education Institutes. As the data is provided to the university for particular administrative purposes, the university cannot stand over the accuracy of the data if it is used for any other purpose. In previous years, the data showed only the second level institution where candidates first sat the Leaving Certificate and did not show the institution in which candidates repeated the examination. The second level institution indicated in the data, did not, therefore, necessarily reflect the second level institution from which students were admitted to the university.
For this year, the data includes every institution in which a candidate sat the examination, even if only for one subject, except in the case of institutions which recorded three candidates or fewer, which have been omitted. The data will not therefore reflect the number of incoming students to the university, because (i) in cases where, for example, a candidate sat the examination twice, that candidate will appear as a statistic under both institutions and be doubly entered in the data and (ii) candidates from institutions of three or fewer candidates have not been included. The double counting occurs even where the candidate repeated the examination in the institution where he or she first sat the examination. The data therefore represents the number of examinations taken in institutions where more than three candidates were recorded, rather than the number of entrants to the university”.
DCU
The data was extracted from data supplied by the CAO. It does include students who repeated their leaving certs but we cannot quantify this from the data provided by the CAO. At the time of issuing the figures we excluded schools from which three or fewer students have registered with DCU for data protection purposes.
NUIG
This data, originating at the State Examinations Commission is transmitted to NUI, Galway via the Central Applications Office for particular administrative purposes. Accordingly, the University cannot stand over the completeness of the data if it is used for other purposes. These figures relating to the student intake reflect the schools where the most recent sitting of the Leaving Certificate Examination took place.
DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
The data in the file reflects the principal school attended for first year registered students. This list includes mature students who have done the leaving certificate in previous years. At the time of issuing the figures we excluded schools from which three or fewer students have registered with DIT for data protection purposes (i.e. to ensure that no single student, or small number of students, were identifiable in the listing which was going into the public domain).
DUNLAOGHAIRE INSTITUTE
Includes repeat leaving cert students.
SLIGO INSTITUTE
The data is in respect of 1st year intake, including repeats, by school of origin by number
WATERFORD INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
It is not possible for us to extract from our data which of the students are repeat leaving certificate students.
TRALEE INSTITUTE
It does include repeat leaving certificate students, the school recorded for them would be the one at the time of latest application to CAO.
GALWAY MAYO INSTITUTE
The information that we have does not specify whether the incoming students are Repeat Leaving Certificate students or not, as this information is not supplied to us by the CAO.
