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07/01/2003
Minister urged to set up advisory panel for 11-plus
The UUP have brought the issue of the 11-plus exam sharply into focus again with calls for an education advisory panel on the controversial matter to be established.
A UUP party delegation met with the current Education Minister Jane Kennedy today to highlight the need for an Education Advisory Panel which could make recommendations to her on how a new transfer procedure could be put in place.
Before devolution was suspended, the former Minister for Education Martin Maginness put in place moves to abolish the 11-plus following a report advocating its removal by the Post Primary Review Body in October 2001.
Following talks, Danny Kennedy, UUP Assembly spokesman on education said they pressed the Minister on the idea of appointing an Education Advisory Panel which could help resolve the future of post primary education in the province.
He said: “We stressed that it was paramount that this includes some form of academic testing consistent with replies in the recent household response survey in which 64 per cent of parents and teachers indicated they wished to see academic selection retained in some form.
“We expressed the hope that the Minister would act to create a new body that could be transparent, open, independent and capable of ending the chaos and uncertainty in education arriving out of the decision by the former Minister for Education to abolish the 11-Plus examination.”
(AMcE)
A UUP party delegation met with the current Education Minister Jane Kennedy today to highlight the need for an Education Advisory Panel which could make recommendations to her on how a new transfer procedure could be put in place.
Before devolution was suspended, the former Minister for Education Martin Maginness put in place moves to abolish the 11-plus following a report advocating its removal by the Post Primary Review Body in October 2001.
Following talks, Danny Kennedy, UUP Assembly spokesman on education said they pressed the Minister on the idea of appointing an Education Advisory Panel which could help resolve the future of post primary education in the province.
He said: “We stressed that it was paramount that this includes some form of academic testing consistent with replies in the recent household response survey in which 64 per cent of parents and teachers indicated they wished to see academic selection retained in some form.
“We expressed the hope that the Minister would act to create a new body that could be transparent, open, independent and capable of ending the chaos and uncertainty in education arriving out of the decision by the former Minister for Education to abolish the 11-Plus examination.”
(AMcE)
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