New post-primary selection policy guidance issued [belfasttelegraph.co.uk]
- Published: 06 July 2010
Fresh transfer guidance on admissions to post-primary schools in Northern Ireland has been published.
The Department of Education reiterated its opposition to testing. “State-funded post-primary schools' boards of governors should not exclude children through the use of the socially divisive and educationally unsound practice of ‘academic' selection,” it said.
Transfer test policy has been mired in controversy with Sinn Fein determined to scrap selection and the DUP adamantly opposed. Many schools have set their own independent tests.
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