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Post-Primary Selection
Thousands of schoolchildren will know the score at weekend
Tomorrow 13,700 pupils will receive the results of new transfer tests.
Education Correspondent Kathryn Torney reports on the details parents need
to guide them through the transfer maze
Comments: 10
Inside Post-Primary Selection
Parents must now reassure children over transfer
Friday, 5 February 2010
PIP Jaffa, chief executive of the Parents Advice Centre, gives her advice to
families waiting on transfer test results:
Comment: 1
Special circumstances could help in decisions
Friday, 5 February 2010
The two testing regimes have called on primary school principals to support
pupils' claims of special circumstances if their exam performance was
affected by illness or another event, for example a family bereavement.
Comment: 1
MLAs ‘should be ashamed of transfer fiasco’
Friday, 5 February 2010
Northern Ireland's politicians should be ashamed of the unregulated school
transfer process experienced by thousands of children this year, it has been
claimed.
Comments: 5
School experts to advise political parties on crisis
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Four of the main political parties will be presented with possible interim
school transfer arrangements by Easter, the Belfast Telegraph can confirm
today.
Comments: 5
Transfer chaos may run a for decade
Monday, 18 January 2010
Sinn Fein plays down possibility of a resolution Sinn Fein’s education
spokesman John O’Dowd is interviewed by the Belfast Telegraph’s Kathryn
Torney
Comments: 45
Northern Ireland school transfer debate: ‘We’ll look back and wonder what all the fuss was about’
Monday, 18 January 2010
It could be argued that the first words uttered by John O’Dowd sum up his
party’s attitude to the long-running school transfer debate.
Comments: 6
Four of five main parties issue joint call for temporary P7 test
Thursday, 17 December 2009
The four political parties involved in weekly talks at Stormont to try and resolve the school transfer crisis have called on Caitriona Ruane to put a temporary P7 test in place.
Fresh petition urges no return to the 11-plus
Friday, 11 December 2009
The Assembly’s education committee has been presented with another school
transfer petition.
Comments: 14
Defiant grammars push on towards a single test
Friday, 11 December 2009
Work will carry on next year on plans for a single transfer test for all
grammar schools despite criticism from Cardinal Sean Brady, a pro-grammar
school lobby has warned.
Comments: 29
Sort It Out campaign won’t be over until all parties sit down and sort it out
Monday, 7 December 2009
A Common purpose united the people standing shoulder to shoulder on the steps
of Parliament Buildings.
Comment: 1
Transfer chaos: Belfast Telegraph readers' "Sort It Out" message delivered to Stormont
Monday, 7 December 2009
They were just one mother and child — but they represented the frustration and
hopes of many thousands more.
Comment on this article
Transfer campaign: Public opinion seems to be causing a shift within Sinn Fein
Friday, 4 December 2009
It is a major step forward that Sinn Fein’s John O’Dowd will be among the
politicians receiving our petitions tomorrow.
Comments: 8
Schools petition that Stormont can’t ignore
Friday, 4 December 2009
A call from 10,000 people for a resolution to the school transfer crisis will
be brought directly to the steps of Stormont tomorrow.
Comments: 4
We should have had replacement before axing 11-Plus, says Sinn Fein MLA
Thursday, 3 December 2009
A Sinn Fein MLA has broken ranks with her party and admitted the then Education Minister Martin McGuinness was wrong to axe the 11-plus without implementing a replacement.
P6 parents should get behind the Belfast Telegraph's transfer campaign
Wednesday, 2 December 2009
Parents of primary six children across Northern Ireland have been urged to get
behind a Belfast Telegraph campaign demanding political action over the
school transfer chaos.
Comments: 12
Transfer chaos campaign: Why Ulster mum Michele Filippi mother will be marching at Stormont rally
Monday, 30 November 2009
Northern Ireland’s politicians have an immediate responsibility to reach
consensus on a way forward for school transfer, according to one Belfast
mum.
Comments: 4
Transfer chaos: 10,000 join Belfast Telegraph campaign
Friday, 27 November 2009
A total of 10,000 signatures demanding that the Executive sorts out the school
transfer crisis will be delivered to Stormont next weekend.
Comments: 4
Can new group solve Northern Ireland's schools crisis?
Thursday, 26 November 2009
The four parties involved in weekly talks on school transfer are hoping that a
group representing many educational interests can come together to find a
resolution to the current crisis.
Comments: 4
8,500 people call for Transfer resolution
Saturday, 21 November 2009
More than 8,500 people have now signed up to support the Belfast Telegraph’s
Sit Down, Sort It Out campaign.
Comments: 7
Ruane admits delay in setting up education body
Saturday, 21 November 2009
Failure to establish the new single education authority by the deadline of
January 1 will leave a multi-million pound hole in the education budget, the
education minister has warned.
Comments: 11
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