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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.

Harvey Donnelly, a 4th year student at Wellington College has won the overall Northern Ireland award at the 2018 BT Young Scientist and Technology exhibition.

The Controlled Schools’ Support Council (CSSC) has been awarded over €140,000 to lead a project which focuses on teaching problem-solving in technology rich environments, it was announced on Tuesday 9 January 2018. 

The body representing nearly half of all Northern Ireland’s schools has today, Thursday, 21 December 2017, raised its concerns over proposals for education contained in the Department of Finance Briefing on Northern Ireland budgetary outlook 2018-20.

CSSC School Support Officer Tracey Woods, along with Marketing and Communications Officer Emma Sloan were delighted to attend the Education Authority’s Celebration of Full Attendance Awards, which took place in St Louise’s Comprehensive College in Belfast today, 15 December 2017.

A group of students from Aughnacloy College had a once in a lifetime experience on a recent educational trip to New York.