The Leaving Certificate results for the next year will probably again be delayed.
The results will be postponed for a fourth consecutive year.
First-year students entering third-level colleges will begin their courses later, according to a report published on Thursday in The Irish Independent.
Aodhán Rordáin, the education spokesperson for Labour, urged students to begin protesting the delays, arguing that the current Leaving Cert model was ineffective.
“The Leaving Cert was only changed during the Covid years when students began to make their voice heard,” Mr Ó Ríordáin told Newstalk radio.
“We need to radically overhaul the Leaving Cert. It’s clear from this that the students are the last people that are ever thought of by the State Examination Commission’s point of view, or from the department’s point of view.
“This just isn’t good enough any more,” Mr Ó Ríordáin said.
There was a last-minute scramble for accommodations this year because grades were released about three weeks later than usual.