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These seminars will facilitate the development of the ethos toolkit for controlled schools, which has been developed over the past year. There will be representation from schools that were involved in the pilot along with others who will share their ethos journey.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A spokesperson for the Department of Education said: “The Controlled Schools Support Council (CSSC) has recently responded to the “The Cost of Division in Northern Ireland” paper published by Ulster University as part of the Transforming Education (TE) programme funded by the Integrated Education Fund.
To outline the unique role of a Transferor governor, enable us to meet with Transferor Governors and find out how the Transferor Representatives’ Council (TRC) and CSSC can support them in their role.
There will be an opportunity to meet with members of TRC and find out how TRC represents the Transferor governors at all levels in education.
The Controlled Schools’ Support Council (CSSC) will present evidence on the education funding crisis in Northern Ireland to the NI Affairs Committee at Westminster at 10.30am with EA and NAHT.
CSSC supports all controlled schools which include Nurseries, Primary, Secondary, Grammar, Integrated, Special and Irish-Medium Schools.
