It is taught in Ireland as an exam subject for the Junior Certificate.

Fine Gael supports making the Irish language an optional subject in the secondary school curriculum after the Junior Certificate.

After three years ( age 14-16 ), every student takes a compulsory state exam known as the Junior Certificate.

After completing the Junior Certificate, a student may continue for two years to take a second state exam, the Leaving Certificate, around age 17-18.

More than 80 % of students who complete the Junior Certificate continue to the Leaving Certificate.

There is an optional year in many secondary schools in Ireland known as Transition Year, which some students choose to take after completing the Junior Certificate, and before starting the Leaving Certificate.

At the end of third year, all students must sit a compulsory state examination called the Junior Certificate.

The Irish Independent, in cooperation with the Institute of Education, produces Exam Brief, a yearly six-part supplement dedicated to preparation for Leaving and Junior Certificate exams.

It takes a minimum of two years preparation, but an optional Transition Year means that for those students it takes place three years after the Junior Certificate Examination.

It is optional at senior level for the Leaving Certificate exams, but all students take religious education for the Junior Certificate exams.

* Junior Certificate, a qualification attained by school students

In April 2011 Quinn confirmed his support for the radical overhaul of the Junior Certificate, which had been put in train by his predecessor, saying the exam is “ no longer suitable as the main form of student assessment in lower-secondary education ’’ and must be changed.

There is, however, a limited element of state assessment of private schools, because of the requirement that the state ensure that children receive a certain minimum education ; Irish private schools must still work towards the Junior Certificate and the Leaving Certificate, for example.

Here the dog & handler can gain experience and the dog can gain points towards a Junior Warrant award or a Show Certificate of Merit.

Finally, there are the huge Championship shows, where dogs can gain points towards a Junior Warrant and compete for the highly coveted Challenge Certificate ( CC ).

Education is compulsory for all children in Ireland from the ages of six to 16 or until students have completed three years of second level education and including one sitting of the Junior Certificate examination although it is most common to start primary education aged four or five.

* Third Year ( An Tríú Bliain ) ( age 14 – 16 ) – The Junior Certificate ( Teastas Sóisearach ) examination is sat in all subjects ( usually 10 or 11 ) in early June.

The Junior Certificate () is an educational qualification awarded in Ireland by the Department of Education to students who have successfully completed the junior cycle of secondary education, and achieved a minimum standard in their Junior Cert.

examinations. The Junior Certificate results sheet.

Also Lundahl Junior High School became an accredited middle school in the spring of 1995 and the name was officially changed to Lundahl Middle School Campus for the opening of the 1996-97 school year.

NCOs are officially divided into two categories: Junior Non-Commissioned Officers ( Jr NCOs ), consisting of Corporals / Leading Seamen and Master Corporals / Master Seamen ; and Senior Non-Commissioned Members ( Sr NCOs ), consisting of Sergeants and Petty Officers 2nd Class.

Major changes since then include: the founding of Round Square in 1966, an international community of schools sharing Hahn's educational ideals ; the school officially becoming co-educational in 1972 ; and the moving of Aberlour House, Gordonstoun's preparatory school, from Speyside to a purpose built Junior School on campus in 2004.

In 1929, Phi Theta Kappa was officially recognized by the American Association of Junior Colleges and became the official honor society of two-year institutions.

One of the show's most popular characters is the mischievous Baby ( occasionally referred to as " Junior " until the second season, where he was officially named " Baby Sinclair ").

In 1919, David L. Mackenzie — who served a dual role as Principal of Detroit Central High School and Detroit Junior College — was officially appointed first Dean of the college that he had originated in 1917.

While this means that the club is therefore officially a continuation of Clydebank it is almost universally accepted as a reincarnation of Airdrieonians, with Clydebank having been reformed by supporters groups and entering into the West Region Junior League.

Although not officially a captain until much later, Bobby was a high-ranking soldier who ran Junior Soprano's old crew and reported directly to Junior, and later to Tony.

In 1938, the Institute received a charter to grant Associate's degrees and, in the same year, officially changed its name to Worcester Junior College ( some initial plans used the name ' Alden Junior College ,' but ' Worcester Junior College ' was used in the official charter ).

The college officially began in 1949, and was then called East Contra Costa Junior College.

In 2004, five secondary schools started implementing Integrated Programmes with their affiliated Junior Colleges, they are officially no longer under the GEP.

In 1993, the Metro Junior B Hockey League and Central Junior B Hockey League, the OHA's two Toronto-area Junior B leagues, were officially recognized by the OHA as Junior A Leagues.

The school was officially founded as Glendale Junior College and from 1927 to 1929 conducted classes in the buildings of Glendale Union High School at Broadway and Verdugo in the City of Glendale.

Although they were officially Junior Station Inspectors throughout this period, they wore the uniforms of the rank in which they were serving at the time and not until this twelve-month period was up were they entitled to wear inspector's uniform.

The construction of Yishun Junior College was completed in December 1986 and the college was officially declared open by Mr. Tang Guan Seng, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Education on 28 May 1988.

In 1959 the Junior Orange Bowl Committee was officially formed.

Howard College ( officially, Howard County Junior College ) is a community college with its main campus in Big Spring, Texas and branch campuses in San Angelo and Lamesa.

On May 26, 2010 Disney-ABC Television Group announced the launch of a new 24-hour preschool-targeted digital cable and satellite channel called Disney Junior, which made its debut on March 23, 2012 ; the Disney Junior channel ( which is commercial-free, like parent network Disney Channel but unlike SOAPnet, which it replaced, and Disney XD ) will compete with other preschooler-skewing cable channels such as Nick Jr., qubo and PBS Kids Sprout.

The " Meccano Junior " sets were replaced with three " Premier Meccano " sets and two " Motor " sets ( including a six-speed motor ) were introduced.

Allen head zinc plated steel bolts replaced the original slot-headed brass-plated bolts and the " Plastic Meccano Junior " sets were brought back.

In 1985 he appeared in the BBC Radio 4 comedy drama series King Street Junior, as teacher Eric Brown, but he left after only two series and was replaced by Karl Howman ( as Philip Sims ).

Despite this success, Rose left the group to resume his solo career after falling out with Simpson, and was easily replaced by Junior Reid.

The new governing body replaced an earlier system where club delegates met informally to decide on the rules, the selection of the winner of the Challenge Cup, the division of clubs into Senior and Junior status, and other matters of mutual interest.

In the VeggieTales 2007 episode The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's, Dorothy was replaced by Darby ( Junior Asparagus ) with a pet pig ( usually referred to as a dog ) named " Tutu ".

The lower-powered 1. 4 was eventually replaced, but as a tax cut for sub-1-liter cars appeared in late 1990, GM do Brasil responded with a 1-litre, " Chevette Junior " for 1992.

The album was finished by 1995 and released on Junior Boy's Own, in conjunction with The Chemical Brothers ' own independent leg of that label, Freestyle Dust, and Virgin Records, who later replaced Junior Boy's Own as the band's head label.

In an administrative reorganization in 1988, the Junior Division was replaced by a system that enrolled all incoming students in one of the senior colleges or schools.

* 100 cc Another non-gearbox class, 100 cc also was split into Heavy, Light and Junior classes, and was last contested in 2002 and has since been replaced completely by Rotax Max.

The NZRU currently have eight representative teams, while the New Zealand Maori rugby union team was postponed for the 2009 Pacific Nations Cup, replaced by the Junior All Blacks, with NZRU Chief Executive Steve Tew stating " while the long-term view was that the New Zealand Maori team was the best fit for the Pacific Nations Cup, the development of the top level of players as a pathway to the All Blacks was a more urgent priority in 2009

Junior Campbell joined on his fourteenth birthday on 31 May 1961, replacing McGovern, and Rodgers was then replaced, initially by two new lead vocalists, Billy Reid and Tommy Scott, although Reid soon departed, leaving Scott as the new frontman.

The Flight Sergeant rank in the Indian Air Force was replaced with the rank of Junior Warrant Officer ( JWO ), which ranks below a Warrant Officer and above a Sergeant.

In 2005 promotions to the rank of Junior Technician ceased and were replaced by SAC ( T )' s.

Between 1963 and 1970 Robert Robinson ( later replaced by Sarah Ward, and Gaynor Morgan Rees ) presented a version designed for children's letters entitled Junior Points of View.

The view to the northwest shows a corner of the now-defunct Junior Autopia, which would be replaced by both the Matterhorn and the Submarine Voyage attraction the following year.

Mrs Ng-Gan left Nanyang Girls ' High School to lead Yishun Junior College in December 2001 and was replaced by Mdm Mak Lai Ying.

* Mickey Gubitosi ( replaced first Junior, and then Porky, in 1939 )

General renovations took place in 1987, but the biggest addition of classroom space to the school in the 1980s was when Chandler Junior High School was closed in 1988, replaced with Andersen Junior High School at Dobson and Ironwood roads.