Education

Finding a school place becoming “increasingly difficult” for refugee children

A report on the impact of Brexit on newcomer children has outlined challenges for non-English speaking children in the education…

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Educational overview 2021

Amid two years of disrupted learning, agendaNi provides a broad overview of the state of play in education. Appointed June…

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A fair start: Tackling educational underachievement

An action plan to tackle educational underachievement will require almost £190 million to be found by the Northern Ireland Executive…

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Flexibility to the school starting age

The Department of Education is developing a Bill that would introduce some “flexibility” to the school starting age in Northern…

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The state of languages

Language teaching in primary schools “has all but collapsed due to Covid-19”, a 2021 language trend assessment has found. The…

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Swann opens autism strategy public consultation

Having published an interim autism strategy for 2021/2022, Minister for Health Robin Swann MLA has opened up the public consultation…

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New SEN Framework

Full implementation of the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act (Northern Ireland) 2016, as intimated by the Northern Ireland Executive,…

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Evolution of education: Minister Peter Weir

In the week when most pupils returned to school following the unprecedented closure in March, David Whelan sat down with…

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Schools restart plan

On 13 August, the Department of Education issued its ‘Northern Ireland Re-Opening Schools Guidance – New School Day’ document, a…

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Education, equality and the economy

Political partisanship has prevented positive changes to Northern Ireland’s education system, a report by leading academic Tony Gallagher has stated.…

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