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TY: Exploring the Student Experience. A Report by ISSU

TY students in Delphi, September 2016 Photo: Ms. Finnegan
NEWS / 27 February 2017

3rd Year Students and Parents are invited to the TY Information meeting which will be held in the school hall on Wednesday, 1st March at 7pm

There is a TY information meeting being held at 7pm on Wednesday, 1st March for all 3rd Year Students and Parents in the school hall. In 2014, the Irish Second-Level Students Union (ISSU) issued a report on Transition Year at the request of the then Minister for Education and Skills, Ruari Quinn T. D.. Read the report - "Exploring the Student Experience" -  in PDF format.

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