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Due to the differing education systems in the UK, most unions only organise in certain parts of the country and some focus on certain members of staff, such as headteachers. Teaching is an unusual profession in that it does not have one leading union, but has many different ones, often with differing aims.
In 2017 the Journalist and director of the New Schools Network, Toby Young, attended a social mobility summit hosted by Teach First, who asked him to write a blog for them. [54] [1] Teach First disagreed with the content of the work submitted by Young, and published it with a rebuttal from another author working in the field. [54]
This is a partial list of schools in the Republic of Ireland, listed by county. It includes primary and secondary schools that are publicly funded, private, or fee-paying institutions across all counties of the Republic of Ireland. This list excludes special education centers and pre-schools. The data is accurate as of March 2023. [1] [2]
Education, youth and children's policy is devolved elsewhere in the United Kingdom. The department's main devolved counterparts are as follows: Scottish Government – Learning and Justice Directorates; Department of Education (Northern Ireland) Executive Office (Northern Ireland) (children and young people) [20]
National schools, established by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland government, post the Stanley Letter of 1831, and were intended to be multi-denominational. [2] [6] The schools were controlled by a state body, the National Board of Education, with a six-member board consisting of two Roman Catholics, two Church of Ireland, and two Presbyterians.
The Education Authority (EA) is responsible for ensuring that nursery, primary and post-primary education services are available to meet the needs of children and young people and for providing support for youth services. The authority was established in 2015 and its services, in relation to education, were previously delivered by the five ...
The department is responsible for the following levels of education: [6] pre-school; primary; post-primary; special; Until 2016 the former Department for Employment and Learning was responsible for further and higher education policy in Northern Ireland. [7] Further and higher education are now the responsibility of the Department for the Economy.
Education in the Republic of Ireland is a primary, secondary and higher (often known as "third-level" or tertiary) education. In recent years, further education has grown immensely, with 51% of working age adults having completed higher education by 2020. [ 1 ]