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It develops and delivers qualifications, including GCSEs, AS, and A Levels, and provides curriculum support and assessments for schools. CCEA is a non-departmental public body and regulator, approving and monitoring Awarding Organisations offering qualifications in Northern Ireland. [4] CCEA was established on 1 April 1994 and based in Belfast ...
The Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1947 introduced a school system which included a government-run eleven-plus post-primary transfer test as an entrance exam for grammar schools; this had previously been introduced in England and Wales in 1944. The test, a form of academic selection, was retained in Northern Ireland whereas England and Wales ...
It catered to female students and had two main courses. It was transferred to the Northern Ireland Ministry of Agriculture in 1922. In 1949, it became Loughry Agricultural College, and it became co-educational in 1962. In the 1970s, it was known as the Loughry College of Agriculture and Food Technology. In the 1990s, it became part of CAFRE. [5]
Merger with De La Salle High School, St Patrick's Grammar School and St Mary's High School Limavady Grammar School: Limavady: County Londonderry: Controlled: Grammar: 241-0048 [96] Limavady High School: Limavady: County Londonderry: Controlled: Secondary: 221-0302 [97] Lismore Comprehensive School: Craigavon: County Armagh: Roman Catholic ...
If schools are unable to transform, parents can create a steering group to push for a grant-maintained integrated school in their area. [2] Typically, schools that "transform" will be considered Controlled Integrated, while new integrated schools will be Grant Maintained Integrated.
[1]: 10 Part VI and Schedules 5 and 6 of the Order define the arrangements for the establishment, management and governance of two types of integrated school: grant maintained integrated schools and controlled integrated schools. [1]: 21 It was at this point that Department of Education began to grant-aid schools with revenue funding.
In 2019 over 3,000 students participated from 130 schools across both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The competition is affiliated with the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) and the Broadcom MASTERS program. The overall winner represents Northern Ireland at the following year's ISEF.
The specialist schools programme (SSP), first launched as the Technology Colleges programme and also known as the specialist schools initiative, specialist schools policy and specialist schools scheme, was a government programme in the United Kingdom which encouraged state schools [a] [b] in England and Northern Ireland to raise private sponsorship in order to become specialist schools ...