Sustainable schools
A Consultation on schools for the future - A policy for sustainable schools
Schools for the Future: A Policy for Sustainable Schools PDF 647 KB The report of the Independent Strategic Review of Education, published on 4 December 2006, examines the challenges facing the education system in Northern Ireland and includes recommendations on how these challenges might best be addressed. The focus of the report is on improving the educational experience of all children across Northern Ireland, regardless of background.
Flowing from its examination of the effectiveness and efficiency of the education system, the Report includes recommendations on sustainable schools. The enrolments of primary schools are a key factor in informing consideration of a school’s viability but there are others. The overriding factor is the quality of children’s education.
This consultation document considers the issue of sustainable schools in the context of the Report’s recommendations and identifies a number of criteria and associated indicators to help inform considerations of viability. This is an important policy area that will shape the school’s estate of the future.
The Department would welcome comments on the issue set out in this consultation paper including the proposed criteria and indicators identified as relevant to sustainable schools. The Department would also welcome comments in relation to any potential implications in regard to the duty to promote equality of opportunity.
Hard copies of this document can be obtained by contacting the Department of Education:
Telephone local : 028 9127 9444
Inernational: +44 (0)28 9127 9444
Fax local: 028 91279100
International: +44 (0)28 9127 9100
By email: sustainable.schools@deni.gov.uk
By writing to:
Development Branch
Sustainable Schools
Department of Education
4th Floor
Rathgael House
Balloo Road
Bangor
Co. Down
BT19 7PR
Please return your responses to the Department by Monday 16 April 2007.
Responses can also be e-mailed to the Department at the e-mail address above.
Responses to this consultation will be subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000, which gives the right of access to information held by all public bodies.
Shared future for education and skills speech PDF 66KB
This document provides a full text of the Secretary of State's Speech on a shared future for education and skills.
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