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The Centre for Talented Youth Ireland (CTYI) is a programme for students of high academic ability between the ages of six and seventeen in Ireland. [1] There are sibling projects around the world, most notably the CTY programme at Johns Hopkins University, the original model for CTY Ireland. CTY students are eligible to participate in CTY's ...
The National Youth Organisation (NYO) is a representative body of students and young people in Ireland, which focuses on issues that affect young people. The National Youth Organisation is headed by an executive which is chaired by the president of the organisation. As of 2008, the President was Aidan McGrath. [1]
The National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) is a representative body for Irish youth organisations, [1] a role that is recognised in the 2001 Youth Work Act. [2] Currently there are 45 national youth organisations who are full member of the NYCI. [3] The National Youth Council of Ireland is a nominating body for elections to Seanad Éireann. [4]
Although in 2012, the Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) found Ireland to be 7th in reading and 20th in mathematics in a world survey at the age of 15. [29] As of 2021, mainstream post-primary schools numbered as follows: [25]
The Kennedy Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Programs (KL-YES) are fully-funded student exchange programs administered by the U.S. Department of State. [1] YES includes the "inbound" program for students from close to 40 Muslim majority countries to study and live in the U.S., and the "outbound" program, called YES Abroad, for students from the U.S. to study in [2] selected YES countries.
It is a member of the Organising Bureau of European School Student Unions (OBESSU) [7] and the National Youth Council of Ireland. [8] During September 2009, ISSU modified its name from the Irish Secondary Students' Union to the Irish Second–Level Students' Union to encompass all Irish post-primary schools. [9]
At 2021 YES Congress Leah Rea became the first member of SDLP Youth to be nominated and elected to the YES Presidium as Vice-President. [ 16 ] In 2016 SDLP Youth and YES held a joint seminar in Belfast on " far-right extremism and Brexit" which was attended by young socialist activists from across Europe.
In 2001, alumni members of the Washington-Ireland Programme established a charity known as the Youth Empowerment Scheme, a mentoring programme for children aged 11–14 years old from across Belfast. The aim of YES is to promote social inclusion of children from different ethnic, religious, educational and socio-economic backgrounds.