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Didn’t see what I’d be on the CAO

Didn’t see astronaut
Didn’t see my dreams in the courses sought
Didn’t see Kung-Fu master
Didn’t see the impending career disaster
Didn’t see techno DJ
Didn’t see the doorway to personal doomsday
Didn’t see the to and fro
Didn’t see commando
Didn’t see holding up the bar
Didn’t see rock n roll star
Didn’t see the people I’d meet
Didn’t expect to have had so much sand between my feet
Did see that experience and instinct would help me grow
Didn’t see fuck all on the CAO

David Mallaghan

Rollingnews

MINISTER FOR Education Ruairí Quinn is set to review the impact of the new Leaving Certificate bonus points system amid increasing concerns it could have a distorting impact on college entry points.

Career experts are predicting a dramatic increase in points for many courses when the CAO publishes its first round of college offers next Monday.

The scramble for college places on many courses has intensified this year because of the strong results of so many students in higher level maths. The record number of students who passed the higher level paper (over 11,000) face into next week’s points race with an additional 25 CAO points.

Minister To Review Bonus Policy For Maths After Points Surge (Séan Flynn, Irish Times)

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The Central Applications Office (CAO) will not investigate the cyber attack which crashed its website for several hours yesterday until after the second round offers are issued next month.

That’s The Irish Times. They don’t put cyber attack in inverted commas like we do.

“Cyber attack”.

That’s better.

Apparently the guards, if they got involved, would remove the CAO servers (they have no extra kit) thus rendering the second round an even bigger mess than yesterday.

Our web man Karl is still buying the CAO line. Others in the office are loudly snorting their incredulity.

“Hah,” said Nat, removing his socks.”They don’t want to waste police time on something they brought upon themselves. Idiots.”

So, CAO. Webtards or victims of a cruel denial-of-service dawn raid? You be the jury. Yes, you twelve.

CAO To Investigate Cyber Attack (Breaking News – Irish Times)