News
22 May 2023
Three controlled schools have been recognised for their exceptional pastoral care at a special awards ceremony hosted by the Department of Education and the Public Health Agency.
Tullygally Primary School, Craigavon, Carrick Primary School, Lurgan, and Knockavoe School, Strabane were presented their awards at the Derrytrasna Awards ceremony at Stormont by Dr Mark Browne, Permanent Secretary, Department of Education.
09 May 2023
Overall funding for education has already been cut by £70m (2.5%) for the current financial year and the Education Authority has been instructed to identify a further £200m of savings. The solution is future investment in education not the unsubstantiated “£226m” in the Cost of Division paper.
The Department of Education (DE) agrees with CSSC’s analysis of the Transforming Education Paper ‘which it considers to be a flawed and oversimplified analysis’ vastly overinflating the cost of shared education (on average costing DE £4m per annum, not the £95.6m quoted). Read Department of Education NI statement here on the Cost of Division in Northern Ireland paper.
27 April 2023
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.
19 April 2023
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.
05 April 2023
A seat fit for a King! Blythefield Primary School chosen to have illustrated bench displayed at Hillsborough Castle and Gardens during the Coronation.
04 April 2023
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.
04 April 2023
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.
28 March 2023
Northern Ireland Office announces free educational resources to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement.
24 March 2023
CSSC has written to all controlled schools highlighting the £18,000 per child educational underinvestment in Northern Ireland in comparison to a child being educated in Scotland.