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The Controlled Schools’ Support Council (CSSC) has today, Friday 9 March, welcomed the publication of the Northern Ireland budget including the extra allocation of funds for education but raises concerns that it may well fall short of meeting the financial needs of schools.

It’s been a successful year for the Controlled Schools’ Support Council (CSSC), but the current financial shortfall in school budgets is adding unpreceded pressure to an already stretched controlled schools’ sector.

Over 50 delegates from schools across Northern Ireland braved the bitterly cold temperatures to attend CSSC’s raising standards conference on Wednesday 28 February in Craigavon.

A full list of school closures can be found on Department of Education website this is due to adverse weather conditions.

Further confirming its reputation as a high performing, non-selective post-primary school, Castlederg High School has been placed 5th in the non-grammar GCSE league table published by The Irish News on Monday 19 February. 

The exam success rates of local schools at GCSE and A Level have been released by the Department of Education.

Year 10 pupils from Banbridge Academy, Sophie Moore and Olivia Miskimmons, were winners of County Down regional finals ‘Big School Cook Off Competition’.

The Controlled Schools’ Support Council (CSSC) has today, Thursday 25 January, described the financial situation faced by many schools as unfair, given the cuts they have been required to make in an effort to stay within budget.

The Cookstown High School team that developed a PiView Renewable Energy weather station were double award winners at this year’s BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition.

Darren McCarroll, 17, from Ballynahinch, who is completing his A levels at Wellington College Belfast, has won a place and a financial aid package to study at a top US university after participating in the Sutton Trust US Programme, run in partnership with the US-UK Fulbright Commission.