Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme

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The Leaving Certificate Vocational Programme (LCVP) is a two-year Education Programme of the Irish Department of Education and Science. It was introduced in 1989. According to the Department, the programme is designed to give a strong vocational dimension to the Leaving Certificate (established). The programme combines the virtues of academic study with a new and dynamic focus on self-directed learning, enterprise, work and the community ^[1]

The programme is aimed at young people who have completed the Junior Certificate and are entering the senior cycle of Secondary School education, but provides a stronger vocational focus than the more established Leaving Certificate. It aims to give students an opportunity to develop their interpersonal, vocational and technological skills.

Students must take at least five Leaving Certificate subjects, one of which must be Irish and two Link Modules, Preparation for the World of Work and Enterprise Education. Typically, students would take seven Leaving Certificate subjects along with the two link modules.