All parents or guardians of pupils due to start pre-school or primary school in 2019 can now apply for a place online. (more…)

The Integrated Education Fund has heard with great sadness of the death of George Leslie, late of Carrickfergus, who passed away peacefully at hospital after a short illness.

George was a founding Governor of Ulidia Integrated College and was one of the driving forces behind its establishment, which was originally based in temporary premises at Whitehead in 1997, with just six teachers and 63 students. (more…)

Growing Integrated Education: Perseverance, partnership and philanthropy

The recent announcement by the UK Chancellor, Philip Hammond, that HM Treasury would invest a further £66 million in capital infrastructure for mainly integrated schools in Northern Ireland is a triumph of perseverance, partnership and philanthropy.  Such things do not happen by accident – it takes years and years of hard effort from parents, schools, supporters and charitable organisations, to achieve. (more…)

Integration Works for Everybody

The Integrated Education Fund has developed a vision of an education system free from religious, social and cultural divisions.  We know, from extensive research, that the vast majority of parents want to see this become a reality – we now need an Administration and Finance Officer who will work with the Head of Operations to support all elements of the Fund’s work to achieve this. (more…)

Pupils from integrated primary schools around Northern Ireland gathered for a gardening session at the Greenmount Campus of CAFRE in Antrim recently – and collected some green prizes while they were there.

Schools who had won awards in the annual scarecrow contest at the Allianz Garden Show Ireland earlier this year, were given trees for their grounds and every group that travelled to Greenmount for the prize ceremony on 16 November got the chance to plant up a trough of colourful cyclamen to take back to school with them. Prizes were kindly donated by CAFRE. (more…)

The Department of Education has published a statistical release which details the basic provisional enrolment figures for schools and for children in funded pre-school education for 2018/19.

The data is taken from the school enrolments census which was conducted in October 2018.

Data collected through the school census exercise are used by the Department of Education (DE) to inform a wide range of policy areas, including finance allocations, school estate development and planning, special education, school improvement, area based planning, extended schools, additional educational needs, early years and integrated and Irish medium education. (more…)