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The Belfast Telegraph's campaign to end academic selection.

paceni wrote 1 week ago: Pro selection parents: Our papers are not for you http://events.belfastmedia.com/?p=460 Only towards … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, Belfast Telegraph, regulated tests at 11, academic selection at 11, Kathryn Torney, primary school transfer tests, Belfast Media Group, Sit Down - Sort it Out, Andersontown News

The Peter Robinson Principle: Surrender on Education

paceni wrote 3 weeks ago: The Northern Ireland First Minister Peter Robinson, has proposed a change to the decision making pro … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, Alliance Party, Democratic Unionist Party, Department of Education Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Assembly, northern ireland executive, peter robinson, SDLP, Ulster Unionist Party

Education Minister ignores more law in education over Parkhall College, Antrim

paceni wrote 1 month ago: Caitriona Ruane appears unable to read English or calculate simple maths http://www.deni.gov.uk/inde … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, Antrim Northern Ireland, Antrim Parkhall College, Antrim schools, deni, DENI Press Releases, Gordon Topping, Michael Wardlow, Parkhall College Antrim

No GCSE English or Maths required: the Northern Ireland Education Minister's slide towards Entitlement

paceni wrote 1 month ago: Northern Ireland Assembly Monday 16 November 2009 Ministerial Statement: Together Towards Entitlemen … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, deni, Northern Ireland Assembly, GCSE english, GCSE Maths, Together Towards Entitlement

Ruane builds "Big Brother" database on all schoolchildren

paceni wrote 2 months ago: The Belfast Newsletter published a story highlighting the creation of a Department of Education mast … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, Jim Allister, deni, Big Brother database on schoolchildren, Department of Education Northern Ireland, eSchools Data project, Republican terrorists, Mail on Sunday, Glen Owen

Return to regulated testing: When Hell freezes over

paceni wrote 2 months ago: On Friday 7th August 2009 Caitriona Ruane said: “I am convinced that when educationalists are … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, Belfast Telegraph, Belfast Telegraph unregulated tests, Northern Ireland Assembly education, Mr G Robinson MLA, Transfer 2010

You have to laugh:Saudi comedy enters the debate over education reform

paceni wrote 2 months ago: According to Reuters a  Saudi television show has illustrated problems plaguing the education system … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, Northern Ireland Education Minister, Tash ma Tash, Saudi Arabia education, Reuters, pluerality and diversity

Do the Northern Ireland Education Minister's supporters even listen to her?

paceni wrote 3 months ago: It seems that either the Education Minister is a poor communicator or that principals are ignoring n … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, minister for education, pupil profile, Sperrin Integrated College, Principal Rowan, Annual Report to Parents Northern Ireland schools, Education (Pupil Records and Reporting) Regulations (NI

Anti-selection Catholic principals forced to offer tests

paceni wrote 3 months ago: A draft post from PACENI  April 20, 2009 is now published.  In an effort to distract from the contin … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, Academic Selection, transfer test, BBC, unregulated system

Sex education about masturbation for five year olds say UNESCO Is this what N. Ireland parents want?

paceni wrote 3 months ago: Professor Alan Smith is UNESCO Chair in Education at the University of Ulster. Publishing along with … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, Numeracy and Literacy, UNESCO, Belfast, Queen's University, sex education for five year olds, Professor Alan Smith, university of ulster, Professor Tony Gallagher

Grammar school tests making parents 'blackmail'

Michael Carchrie Campbell wrote 6 months ago: Education Crisis continues The apparent blackmailing of teachers in Northern Ireland’s primary … more →

Tags: Politics, Northern Ireland, Educatioin

What the DUP can do for Caitriona Ruane, Minister of Education.

paceni wrote 6 months ago:    “Let us adopt a can-do attitude. I have grave concerns about the way in which we govern our … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, Northern Ireland Assembly, DUP, Sinn Féin, DUP Conference 2008, Mervyn Storey MLA, Chairman of Education Committee, Hansard for Northern Ireland Assembly

Look back in anger on regulated 11-plus tests

paceni wrote 6 months ago: PACE had warned parents about the DUP’s failure to expose the Education Minister’s black … more →

Tags: 11-plus, Academic Selection, DUP, regulated tests at 11, test

Primary principals attempt an end to parental choice

paceni wrote 6 months ago: In a desperate effort to achieve an end to academic selection primary school principals have called … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, Academic Selection, BBC, Into, Irish National Teachers Orgainsation, Minister of Education

Election criticisms of the DUP highlight all that is wrong with Northern Ireland politics

torystoryni wrote 7 months ago: Visiting the duppantsonfire website does not just provide laughs. A great deal of what is said on it … more →

Tags: Normal Politics, power-sharing, UUP, assembly, Devolution, peter robinson, Owen Paterson, Northern Ireland Politics, Ulster Unionist Party

Minister of Education aids in cover-up of child abuse scandal

paceni wrote 7 months ago: In a sanitised history of the Christian Brothers Education Minister Caitriona aided in the coverup o … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, Br J K Mullan Christian Brothers Trustee, Caitriona Ruane and Christian Brothers, Edmund Rice Schools Trust, Irish Commission to Inquire into Child abuse

Ruane admits guilt in breaking own tough rules

paceni wrote 7 months ago: Caitriona Ruane has just admited to the BBC’s  Good Morning Ulster  taking her daughter out of … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, Removing children from school in term-time, missing school

How the Education Minister will achieve "Every School a Good School" status

paceni wrote 7 months ago:   See will simply declare it so. Mr A McQuillan (AQW 7094/09) asked the Minister of Education if she … more →

Tags: Grammar Schools, Northern Ireland Assembly, Northern Ireland Education Minister, numeracy and literacy strategy, Minister of Education, ETI, every school a good school, es

The debate on the proposed Irish Language Act - Part IV14 comments

torystoryni wrote 7 months ago: Previous posts on this subject Part I;    Part II;    Part III Since 1983, when Irish became extinct … more →

Tags: St. Andrew's Agreement, Education, Northern Ireland, Irish language, Heritage, Good Friday Agreement, edwin poots, Northern Ireland Politics, Gregory Campbell MLA


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