Among students who were disappointed when the CAO made its college offers on Wednesday are those who lost out through random selection. Their disappointment is keen because they did, literally, make ...

Democracy can be better served by randomly selecting representatives, argue Italian researchers. Dr Alessandro Pluchino of the Universita di Cantania and colleagues report their findings on the ...

The Irish Second-Level Students’ Union has criticised the use of what it said was the “deeply unfair” random selection process after some students who achieved maximum points lost out on their first ...