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The critical financial pressures facing education in NI are already starker than elsewhere in the United Kingdom.  Our concern is that the Secretary of State does not recognise that education in Northern Ireland (NI) is significantly underfunded. The impact this underfunding has on the lives of all our children and young people is lived each day by our school leaders and their staff.

Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton presided over an honorary graduation ceremony to mark the contributions of the principals involved in the Limavady Shared Education campus from St Mary’s High School and Limavady High School.

A seat fit for a King! Blythefield Primary School chosen to have illustrated bench displayed at Hillsborough Castle and Gardens during the Coronation.

Today’s report from Ulster University, partially funded by the Integrated Education Fund, states that the significant underfunding in education is due to duplication. CSSC would contend that this is an incorrect assertion and weakens the case for equality of education funding for our children and young people. 

Eight Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of the key educational bodies in Northern Ireland have come together to collectively call for sustainable and sufficient funding for the education sector and a clear and comprehensive Education strategy that allows our children and young people for generations to come to have the best possible start in life.