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Education

Student housing shake-up ‘could help ease trouble’

Planning regulations on student houses must be tightened to help tackle anti-social behaviour in Belfast's Holy Land area.
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Inside Education

Funding crisis a ‘threat to future of Ulster schools’

Friday, 19 March 2010

The worst education funding crisis in a generation is threatening the future of Northern Ireland’s schools, it has been claimed.
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Secondary school opens creche facility for pupils

Friday, 19 March 2010

A North Belfast secondary school has opened a creche which will be available to pupils, as well as staff and the local community.
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Catholic post-primary colleges in Fermanagh facing axe

Friday, 19 March 2010

Mount Lourdes — like all Catholic schools — must stop using academic selection by 2012, according to a NICCE report THE Northern Ireland Commission for Catholic Education (NICCE) has announced plans to dramatically reduce the number of schools in Fermanagh.
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Nine Northern Ireland Catholic schools to lose grammar status

Thursday, 18 March 2010

Nine more schools face losing their grammar status under the latest plans to be announced by the Northern Ireland Commission for Catholic Education.
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Ruane’s warning to teachers over ‘breakaway test’

Friday, 12 March 2010

Caitriona Ruane has told teachers that they should not tutor 10-year-olds for “breakaway admissions tests”.
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‘Naive’ Nesbitt learns harsh lesson on education debate

Friday, 12 March 2010

Ulster Unionist Strangford candidate Mike Nesbitt has stumbled into an education row after suggesting that all children in Northern Ireland should be able to attend an expensive fee-paying school.
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Four Catholic schools to lose grammar status

Friday, 12 March 2010

Four top Catholic grammars will be forced to stop using academic selection under new plans unveiled by the Northern Ireland Commission for Catholic Education (NICCE).
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Bonecastle: Belfast Telegraph search for old school pictures

Thursday, 11 March 2010

Belfasttelegraph is on the look-out for old school photos - and online reader Tom O'Hare has dug out these fascinating images of Bonecastle Primary School, outside Downpatrick, in County Down.
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Shock level of bullying of Northern Ireland's special needs pupils

Thursday, 11 March 2010

Children with disabilities and special educational needs experience high levels of bullying at schools in Northern Ireland, according to a new report.

Pupil speaks out in defence of Crumlin Integrated College

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Crumlin Integrated College pupil Jessica Friars emailed the Belfast Telegraph to defend her school.

Teacher criticised in Co Antrim school probe allowed to stay in post

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

A teacher at a Co Antrim school strongly criticised by inspectors has been allowed to remain in their post despite being deemed “unsatisfactory”.

University expansion is backed by unions

Tuesday, 9 March 2010

The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) has backed radical plans to triple the number of university students in Londonderry.
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Heads seek urgent review of school funding

Thursday, 4 March 2010

Head teachers will call for a review of school funding to be completed urgently during an event in Armagh today.
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Crumlin College parent: ‘I can’t wait for my son to leave this place’

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

Parents of children attending Crumlin Integrated College have told the Belfast Telegraph that they have been concerned about standards at the school for some time.

Crumlin Inegrated College: Key findings of the inspectors' report

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

Crumlin Integrated College is a controlled, integrated, co-educational and non-selective school catering for pupils aged between 11 and 16.

Principal of failing Northern Ireland school at Crumlin removed

Wednesday, 3 March 2010

A principal has been removed from her post and sent for training after the publication of one of the most damning school inspections ever in Northern Ireland, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.

DUP vows to keep academic selection

Monday, 1 March 2010

The First Minister today pledged to retain post-primary school in Northern Ireland — as the Catholic Church stressed its intention to end entrance tests entirely in its schools.

Cardinal signals end of selection for Catholic schools

Monday, 1 March 2010

Catholic schools should consider sharing staff and facilities with other sections of the community, the head of the church in Ireland said today.

Boys take the easier option when it comes to reading

Monday, 1 March 2010

First the good news: boys are reading as much as girls. Now the bad: the books they choose are far less challenging and easier to comprehend than those selected by girls and this gets worse as they grow older.
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