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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
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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