Education

The Northern Ireland Secretary should act over the region’s “crisis hit” education system in the absence of devolved government, a Westminster committee has recommended.

The Ulster University has become the first university to sign up to The R&A’s drive to get more women and girls involved in golf.

A former primary school principal who “felt a sense of loss and loneliness” after his retirement has found a new lease of life having travelled to Ethiopia and worked at a colony for people with Aids and leprosy.

A schoolteacher at one of Co Down’s top schools was overlooked for a temporary promotion because she worked reduced hours, the Equality Commission said.

LGBT rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has said it is was “regrettable but necessary” that Westminster had to legislate for same-sex marriage and abortion rights in Northern Ireland.

A Larne student is among the first to be chosen for a year-long international youth leadership programme which will culminate with a trip to Los Angeles.

A survey of three generations in Northern Ireland has found two-thirds of parents and grandparents believe childhood is worse today than they experienced.

Whitehead man Gary Stevens is the first Phd student to graduate from the Sir William Wright Technology Centre at Queen’s University Belfast.

Carrickfergus students won five awards for outstanding academic achievement at Stranmillis University College’s awards ceremony.

Alliance Councillor Danny Donnelly has welcomed a decision by the parents of Seaview Primary School in Glenarm who have voted overwhelmingly in favour of integration.

Young people from loyalist areas see bonfires as an important part of their community and are keen to learn more about their origins, according to new research.

The Court of Appeal has ruled that Sheffield University must reconsider a decision to throw a Christian off a social work course after he said that “same-sex marriage is a sin”.

A decision to transform Seaview Primary School in Glenarm to integrated status has resulted in a boost in enrolment this September.

A pioneering programme reflecting on one of the world’s worst genocide atrocities is to be delivered to 40 young leaders aged 18-24 in Mid and East Antrim.

A Ballyclare student, who is the sole carer of his mum, won a prestigious accolade at the recent Northern Regional College Student Awards.

A primary seven pupil at St Anthony’s Primary School, Larne, won Junior Choir Singer of the Year, on Thursday evening, in Belfast.

Belfast-born boxer Carl Frampton MBE said he was "delighted" as he received an honorary degree from Queen’s University Belfast at the weekend.

The court battle to keep pupils from the Lurgan campus of Craigavon Senior High School in their ‘home town’ has been put back for a month, the case was due for hearing at the High Court tomorrow (Thursday) but has now been put back to August 13.