Education

The letter to Chris Heaton-Harris called for pupils in Northern Ireland to be treated equally with their peers in the rest of the UK

Appeal to Chris Heaton-Harris to address 'chronic underfunding' of NI schools

More women are being encouraged to pursue careers in manufacturing thanks to a partnership between Ballymena zero-emission bus maker Wrightbus and a Northern Ireland college

Wrightbus joins forces with college to help women build manufacturing careers

Allstate NI and Queen’s University Belfast have launched the Allstate Software Studio, a new purpose-built training facility for software engineering students. Pictured cutting the ribbon are Karen Rafferty, head of school of electronics, electrical engineering and computer science, QUB, Zulfi Jeevanjee, executive vice-president and CIO Allstate, Austen Rainer, professor (education) EEECS, QUB, Stephen McKeown, vice president and managing director Allstate NI, Helen Carrick, assistant director (philanthropy) QUB and Ryan Feeney, vice-president strategic engagement and external affairs, QUB. Credit PressEye

Allstate Software Studio opens at Queen’s University Belfast

The top performing schools in Northern Ireland have been revealed in The Sunday Times Schools Guide 2023

Top schools in Northern Ireland named in Sunday Times list

Translink staff on the picket line in Crumlin as 24-hour strike that got under way at midnight is expected to cause extensive disruption across the public transport network on Friday. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Ulster at a standstill: Bus and train drivers striking for 24 hours

The UK must stand with Taiwan against intimidation by China, UUP peer Lord Rogan has told the World League for Freedom and Democracy conference in Taipei.

Peer presses government on teacher pay disparity with rest of UK

MRP celebrates 'topping out' of new student residence in England

Cairnshill Primary School - Google maps

School classrooms closed after problematic RAAC concrete identified in building

Teachers on the picket line on Wednesday morning at Elmgrove Primary School in east Belfast. Most schools in Northern Ireland were closed until midday due to a strike over pay. Picture by Jonathan Porter / PressEye

‘Real anger’ among teachers as thousands strike across NI

Staff at St Malachy’s In Belfast on Strike on Wednesday as Most schools in Northern Ireland are expected to be closed until midday on Wednesday due to a strike.

Teaching Strikes ended today at 12 but timing made is difficult for pupils

NASUWT members took to the picket lines across NI this morning in an industrial dispute over teachers' pay. Pictured is the picket line at Malone Integrated College.

Schools across NI suffer major disruption as five unions strike over pay

A number of innovative student and graduate-led businesses are to receive a share of £100,000 in funding from Queen’s University Belfast, as part of its new ‘InQUBate’ initiative. Pictured are winner Khaula Bhutta, winner Isaac Gibson, Queen's pro-chancellor Orla Corr, winner Liam Coyle, Queen's pro-vice-chancellor Stuart Elborn, winner Maebh Reynolds

Student-led start-ups receive £100,000 in funding from Queen’s

Sarah Martin from Newtownabbey says that her son Ethan, 4, depends heavily on regular routine and becomes very challenging when school is cancelled.

School strike to hit special needs children worst, says mother

The education of almost 60,000 children across NI will suffer significant disruption this Friday when all three public transport unions go on strike.
Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Transport strike to impact 60,000 pupils across NI this week

DUP Education Spokesperson Diane Dodds says the Department of Education’s consultation on Relationships and Sexuality Education must take account of the ethos and values of schools.
Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Sex education consultation must consider school ethos says DUP

Unite the union workers' protest Stormont in March 2022. Photo: Arthur Allison/Pacemaker Press.

Industrial action by school support workers to coincide public transport strike
School support workers in Northern Ireland, including bus drivers, are set to strike on Friday, December 1, Unite the union has confirmed.

Statue stolen

Statue of girl and blackbird reading a book stolen from outside Belfast library

The schooling of almost 60,000 children across NI could be "significantly disrupted" after all three public transport unions prepare to strike in the run up to Christmas. Photo: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Transport strike to hit 60k pupils before Christmas

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland has published its submission to the public consultation on the Secretary of State Chris Heaton Harris' plans for compulsory abortion education in NI schools.
Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

PCI publishes submission on Heaton-Harris 'sex ed' plans

Geri Haliwell is one of the Spice Girls

Spice Girl Geri Halliwell-Horner: Titanic Belfast is best museum I have been to

Undated handout photo of Mark Carruthers (left) with the Red Lines podcast team on the DLD campus. Mark Carruthers has been appointed as a visiting professor of media at Ulster University

BBC Northern Ireland politics anchor to train next generation of journalists

(left to right) Graham Gault national secretary for National Association of Health Teachers (NAHT), Ronan Sharkey president of National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) in Northern Ireland, Jacquie White General Secretary of Ulster Teachers' Union (UTU), Mark McTaggart northern secretary of the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) and Danielle Black, regional officer at National Education Union (NEU), as members of the five teaching unions in Northern Ireland have announced that their members will hold strike action on five days in a long-running dispute over pay.

Teachers in NI warn of longer strikes if no resolution is reached in pay dispute

File photo dated 21/02/2023 of teachers on the picket line outside Oakwood School & Assessment Centre in Belfast. Teaching unions in Northern Ireland have announced their members will hold strike action on five days in a long-running dispute over pay.

Teaching unions announce escalation of strike action in pay dispute

Thousands of non-teaching staff go on strike. Classroom assistants, bus drivers, catering staff, cleaners and other support workers are walked out at hundreds of schools.

Education workers strike: ‘Everything is going up – except our pay’

Schools across Northern Ireland are facing major disruption and possible closures on Thursday

Thousands of non-teaching staff strike leaving schools facing disruption

Unite the Union members at the picket line at St. Gerard's School in Belfast on Wednesday. Significant disruption to school transport is expected on Wednesday as four unions go on strike today. Almost 800 school support staff with Unite - the majority transport workers - are walking out as part of an ongoing dispute over a pay and grading review. On Thursday school staff from Unison, GMB and Nipsa will join the strike.
Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

‘Only Chris Heaton-Harris can resolve school strikes’

The National Trust has completed the acquisition of the historic Causeway Memorial School, which accepted its last primary school pupils in 1962

Historical 1915 Causeway school to be restored by National Trust
The National Trust has completed the acquisition of the historic Causeway Memorial School, which accepted its last primary school pupils in 1962

Northern Ireland property development company South Bank Square has revealed plans for a £55 million investment in purpose built managed student accommodation on a prime Belfast city centre site. The proposed development, which will be known as The Grattan, will be situated at the site of the former Fanum House building on Great Victoria Street. The development will comprise of a modern purpose-built student accommodation building with 610 bedrooms in addition to a range of on-site amenities including a café, residents lounge, fitness suite, business hub and landscaped roof terraces

NI developer submits new £55million plans for major development in Belfast

An artist's impression of the redeveloped Hazelwood Integrated College site. (Pic: Contributed).

Feedback sought on development proposals

Liam Kennedy on the protest march from QUB to the US Consulate

'Hamas ready to fight to last baby' says professor critical of protest 'fervour'

The new SEAG academic selection test will be taken at schools across Northern Ireland this Saturday. (Generic photo).

14,000 children to take new academic selection test across Northern Ireland

A Purple Plaque has been unveiled at Coleraine Grammar School to mark the success of Coleraine High School past pupil Naomi McGregor, the Ballymoney tech entrepreneur who was last year named winner of the Innovate UK Women in Innovation Award. Pictured are Headmaser, Dr David Carruthers, Heather Hamilton, Coleraine High School Former Pupils' Association, Naomi McGregor, Fred Mullan, Coleraine Academical Institution Former Pupils' Association

Ballymoney tech entrepreneur gets Purple Plaque honour at former high school

A mural on the old Unite building in central Belfast

Unite reveals plans for a two-day education strike mid-month in pay dispute

Class of 1974 at the Ulster College of Physical Education (UCPE) reunion to mark the 70th anniversary

UCPE reunion welcomes back graduates to mark 70th anniversary milestone

Cookstown construction firm, McAleer & Rushe has been appointed by Fusion Group to deliver 420 new residences at a seven-storey purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) scheme in Liverpool. Ideally located opposite the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA) and within walking distance of both the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University, the building will provide a space for students including a recording studio, half basketball court, fitness studio, library and zero waste shop

NI construction firm wins 420-unit student accommodation contract in England

Health and education workers at a strike rally in Belfast earlier this year. The Treasury is failing to invest properly in NI public services, writes DUP MLA Diane Dodds

Diane Dodds: More honesty required in debate over public sector pay disputes

The funeral takes place in Tyrone on Sunday of missionary Maud Kells OBE - who among many other exploits survived being shot by bandits and freed a child from a witchdoctor. Photo: PACEMAKER

Maud Kells triumphed over bandits and witchdoctors

NASA image of a gamma ray burst

QUB man used space telescope to uncover where most of periodic table comes from

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EE brings 4G mobile coverage boost to at least 139 rural communities

UN Development Programme image showing a destroyed neighbourhood in Yemen

Ex-QUB governor questions why Israel - not others - are targets of major boycott

The Yorkgate branch of Home Bargains in Belfast has been a target of activists in the past; the upcoming protest this Saturday will be at the Londonderry branch

Pro-Palestine protestors in Northern Ireland target Home Bargains

Image of Queen's University Belfast

Over 50 academics in Northern Ireland now signed up to Israel boycott

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Monday 23rd October 2023

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APPROVAL GRANTED FOR NEW INTEGRATED SCHOOL IN MID DOWN AREA…A new Integrated post primary school in the Mid Down area to accommodate 600 pupils is set to open in September 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. The Development Proposal was submitted in 2021 by a Parental Steering Group and the approval follows a period of public consultation.

Boxing champion Carl Frampton, an ambassador for the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE), gave his support to the campaign, pictured in 2021 with Elle Brown, a pupil of Cairnshill Primary School, Rafe McKervey from Blackwater Integrated College and Felix Jackson a pupil of Cedar Integrated Primary School.

New Integrated post primary school to cater for 600 pupils is set to open

The Campaign Against RSE (Relationship and Sex Education) held a protest outside the Secretary of State's offices in Belfast on 2 September

DUP's 'five core pillars' supporting party's opposition to new RSE legislation

Ulster University’s Academy Restaurant becomes first in UK and Ireland to be certified with the prestigious Green Key for sustainability. Pictured are professor Mark Durkin, executive dean Ulster University Business School, Lisa Kennedy, business manager at Academy, Wendy McGuire, The Academy and professor Ioannis S. Pantelidis, hospitality & tourism management, Ulster University

NI restaurant is first in UK and Ireland to unlock the prestigious 'Green Key'

The Mall Presbyterian church, Armagh city. Picture: Billy Maxwell

Marking the 140th anniversary of the Boys' Brigade movement

Stills from the footage of the protest in Belfast

Palestine protestors parade through west Belfast Sainsbury's supermarket

Footage circulates showing Palestinian protest at Irish language school

Former Stormont Economy Minister Gordon Lyons, the DUP Finance Spokesman, said the Treasury must adopt the same solution it applied to Wales in order to resolve the £2.3bn funding gap in Northern Ireland’s budget.

Welsh solution will fill Northern Ireland's £2.3bn budget gap, says DUP

Ulster University has launched a powerful Exhibition ‘Everyday Objects Transformed by the Conflict’ offering a glimpse into the lives of those who lived through conflict in Northern Ireland to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Belfast Good Friday Agreement. The free exhibition reveals unique and everyday stories through a range of loaned objects such as twisted metal from an exploded car, a journalist's notes scribbled onto unused cheques, a bullet-proof clipboard used by the security forces, all with labels written in the words of those who own them

Free exhibition looks into the lives of those who lived through the NI conflict

A new partnership will inspire 8,000 girls in Northern Ireland to pursue a career in civil engineering. The pilot programme between the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and Girlguiding Ulster encourages girls to explore the world of civil engineering and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The programme sets out a range of activities for Guides and Rangers to undertake and will allow them to work towards earning a new civil engineering badge. Pictured is Chief commissioner Girlguiding Ulster Debbie McDowell, ICE NI Chair Brenda O'Loan, chief executive officer Girlguiding Ulster Claire Flowers and Girlguiding Ulster Guides celebrating the launch of the new civil engineering badge

New badge as Girlguiding and ICE inspire girls in NI to be civil engineers

Pictured at Belfast Met at the launch of the assured skills academy date and analytics training course with EY and Belfast Met and funded by the Department of the Economy are: Rob Heron, managing partner, EY NI and Damian Duffy, deputy chief executive, Belfast Met and academy students attending the training course

EY NI launches skills academy programme with its first cohort of participants

A new mobile GeoEnergy Discovery Centre has been launched to help inform the public about the potential for geothermal energy in Northern Ireland as a renewable and sustainable energy source.. Millie from Dundonald Primary School and Jayden from Holy Trinity Primary School in Belfast are pictured with Ryan White, director of heat, buildings and climate change at DfE and Marie Cowan, director of GSNI at the launch of the interactive GeoEnergy Discovery Centre

‘Discover the heat beneath our feet’ as GeoEnergy Discovery Centre is launched

The role of an archdeacon is demanding as they aid and assist the bishop in his pastoral care and office

New archdeacons appointed in Down and Dromore Church of Ireland

The seminar will be held at Cairnshill Methodist church, Belfast on Thursday, October 12, from 10am

The spiritual view on health and healing