Junior cycle reform: ‘Wellbeing’ a first-year subject in 2017

Subject will be integrated across junior cycle by 2020 as part of revised reform timetable. A new subject of wellbeing will be introduced to students starting the first year of secondary school in September 2017 under a revised timetable for the roll out of junior cycle reforms published Monday.

The framework published on Monday provides added detail to the deal struck last May between Ms O’Sullivan the leaders of the two secondary teacher unions, the ASTI and TUI. Click here to view the published framework.

For more, see article in the Irish Times.