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International Conference Studies Thirty Years Of Integrated Education

Paul Caskey, Campaign Director of the Integrated Education Fund, joined past and present integrated school principals to share their experiences with an international gathering in Belfast recently.

Teachers from Israel, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatia and Cyprus as well as academics from Germany, the USA and Northern Ireland attended a Conference for Integrated Peace Education which focused on ways of bringing young people from different cultures together in a context of division and conflict.  The conference was hosted by Queen’s University Belfast and the Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education in conjunction with the Hebrew University Jerusalem and the Open University of Cyprus and is supported by the Open Society. (more…)

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Back To The Future: Integrated Education’s 30th Birthday Party

Looking back over thirty years of integrated education….and looking to the future. The BBC’s David Meade, “mentalist” and Courtenay Fitzpatrick, past pupil of New Bridge Integrated College, recently popped dpwn to the Europa Hotel in a DeLorean car to launch the Integrated Education Fund’s Gala Ball.

 

Integrated education began thanks to the efforts of a small group of parents whose dedicated campaigning led to the opening of Lagan College in September 1981 – the same year that the first DeLorean cars rolled off the production line in Belfast.

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