Area? What Area?
So it seems area-based planning is well under way with final submissions from the Education Boards and the CCMS due at the end of June; the Minister for Education is asking for “realistic and creative solutions” in planning the future delivery of schooling. At the moment the requirement is to “Anticipate future need by sector using robust and verifiable data.” and to ” Identify under or over provision by sector in the area …” – so it seems the Programme for Government’s promotion of shared education is not high on the agenda. However the Department’s Terms of Reference document does also suggest cross-sectoral sharing should be considered, and the ELBs are required to engage with the integrated sector in looking at meeting future needs. Certainly there will be submissions from the integrated education movement. (more…)
