A home-schooled Leaving Certificate student who successfully challenged his exemption from this year's Calculated Grades process will receive his grades on 7 September, along with all other candidates.
The Department of Education had refused to give Elijah a calculated grade because he was taught by his mother Martina Burke, who is a qualified teacher.
Mr Justice Charles Meenan in his ruling directed the Minister for Education to put steps in place to allow Elijah, and other students excluded from the system because they had been home-schooled by a parent or close relative, be assessed for a calculated grade.
Earlier this week it emerged that while the Minister was putting steps in place to allow Elijah be assessed for a calculated grade, there was no guarantee that he would receive any results at the same time as other candidates.
Mr Justice Charles Meenan expressed concern over that lack of a guarantee, and the potential effect this might have on Elijah regarding CAO offers for college places.
Today the High Court heard that significant progress had been made between the parties over how and when Elijah's course work is to be assessed, and graded.
Lawyers for Elijah Burke said his work was to be assessed by independent teachers from the Mayo Education and Training Board.
In a judgement earlier this month Mr Justice Meenan quashed the Minister's decision and held that the calculated grade system which excludes home schooled students on the grounds that a teacher has a conflict of interest was "irrational, unreasonable and unlawful."
He said that a non-conflicted or independent teacher or teachers ought to be involved in the place of Elijah's mother in the system for the award of the estimated mark in each of the teen's Leaving Certificate subjects.
Elijah hopes to study either Biomedical Sciences or History with Music at NUIG. He is one of ten siblings who have all been educated at home by their mother.
The Minister argued that it was not possible to give Elijah a calculated grade for any of the nine subjects he has studied due to an absence of credible evidence from an appropriate source on which to base a grade.
This was because Mrs Burke was in a position of direct conflict of interest and that accepting estimated marks from a family member would undermine the integrity and credibility of the process.
