Second-level students will be able to study computer science, including coding, as a Leaving Certificate subject in three years' time, according to the Minister for Education.
The new subject on the Leaving Cert prospectus is just one of 50 recommendations that were made in a new report aimed at improving the teaching of the so-called STEM subjects of science, technology, engineering and maths in primary and second-level schools.
Minister Richard Bruton said that computer science could be taught in secondary-schools by 2019.
Politics and Society was the latest subject that was added to the Leaving Cert
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