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Education
Skills shortages impacting profitability, growth and staff wellbeing in Northern Ireland
Employers in Northern Ireland are currently being faced with a skills gap, with more than three quarters (83 per cent)…
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Education
New education framework suggests reform of 14-19 qualifications
The “complex” qualifications landscape for 14 to 19 year olds is to be streamlined under plans to better align the…
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Education
New political composition of the Education Authority Board
There have been four changes in the political makeup of the Education Authority board following May’s Northern Ireland Assembly elections.…
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Education
Skills supply gap faces ‘stigma’ challenge
Moves to address a predicted annual shortfall of some 2,000 level four and level five qualifications over the next decade…
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Education
SEN demand outstripping places
Almost 100 pupils with statements of special educational needs (SEN) are awaiting re-placement in the education system, as the Education…
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Education
Integrated Education Act: An important first step
Kellie Armstrong MLA’s Integrated Education Act has placed the initiative on the Department of Education to encourage and facilitate the…
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Education
Finding a school place becoming “increasingly difficult” for refugee children
A report on the impact of Brexit on newcomer children has outlined challenges for non-English speaking children in the education…
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Issues
The challenge of working with interpreters
Diversity NI is leading the way in terms of the quality of training for its 700+ fully qualified, tested, monitored,…
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Public Affairs
Parr’s Ireland: From the Pope’s visit to a flat white
One of the pre-eminent photographers of his generation, documentary photographer, Martin Parr talks to Owen McQuade about his ‘Parr’s Ireland’…
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Housing
Reaching resolutions through mediation
The housing mediation service operated by Housing Rights offers landlords and tenants who find themselves in dispute a way to…
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