How colleges inflated points to make courses more attractive

Third-level institutions try to tackle controversial issue of how to compete for brightest students

Lucy McCabe, Isobel Black, Ashley Brennan and Camilla Kelly collect their Leaving Cert results at Rathdown School, Glenageary, Co Dublin Jason Clarke
Lucy McCabe, Isobel Black, Ashley Brennan and Camilla Kelly collect their Leaving Cert results at Rathdown School, Glenageary, Co Dublin Jason Clarke

For the past two years, a group has been meeting regularly in Merrion Square to try to end some of the worst excesses of the points race.

It has been chaired in the headquarters of the Irish Universities Association by Maynooth University president Professor Philip Nolan. And it includes registrars, who are the ...