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TACOT:IE - Initial Terms of Reference

Appendix B - Initial terms of reference

Having regard to DENI's duty to encourage and facilitate integrated education, the primary objective of the Working Group will be to consider ways of assisting the further development of the integrated school sector while taking account of the interests of other schools, and in particular -

  • to assess the long-term potential for integrated schooling in the Province;
  • to identify obstacles to the continuing development of integrated education; ·to review the role of NICIE, IEF, the ELBs and other school interests in assisting and promoting the development of integrated education;
  • to assess the scope for expansion through the transformation of existing schools and consider further ways of facilitating this option where parents and schools are minded to pursue it.
  • to consider, on the basis of these assessments, whether potential areas for development can be prioritised;
  • to review the arrangements for capital funding of new integrated schools and consider possible alternatives for financing their capital development; this win involve the potential of PFI based on the experience of existing pathfinder projects;
  • to examine the arrangements for the development of "grammar stream in integrated schools;
  • to review the policy on post-16 provision within the integrated sector.

OTHER CHAPTERS

Introduction
General Principles
A strategic approach to the promotion of a culture of tolerance
Pluralism/mixed schools
Formal Integrated Schools

APPENDICES

Working group on integrated education - membership
Initial terms of reference
Revised terms of reference