PISA Results for NI: A Thread 🧵 [1]...
The most up to date PISA Report for Northern Ireland (2022) has just been published by the Department of Education and NISRA. It’s a 214 page document. Here's some of the findings.
A major international survey of educational achievement of 15-year-olds shows that young people in Northern Ireland continue to perform highly compared to young people in other education systems across the world.
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Today’s Supreme Court ruling on Religious Education and Religious Observance in NI schools, presents an important opportunity to address a subject that is often misunderstood, under-resourced, excluded from inspection frameworks, and—although controversial—frequently overlooked.
With the likely omission of Religious Education from the TransformEd Curriculum Review - is this a missed opportunity for overdue reform of the subject? Parents, education specialists, and students pen a letter highlighting concerns to the Education Minister.
5/ In short: The Review wants NI to move beyond an exclusively church-led model of RE. The future must be inclusive, plural, professionally led, and focused on education outcomes rather than religious observance.
4/ On collective worship, the Review is clear: RE should not be tied to worship. Instead, it must be an educational subject, taught objectively, without proselytising.
📖 Religious Education in NI isn’t part of the TransformED curriculum reform – and the Core Syllabus hasn’t been meaningfully updated in decades. Time for change towards an inclusive, modern approach? And what could RE reform look like?
Education Minister @paulgivan has announced the appointment of five new members to the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools and its Diocesan Education Committees with effect from 26 August 2025.
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GCSE (Year 12) performance between Grammar and Non-Grammar: Is the 'school type' attainment gap continuing to narrow? The data would seem to say so. What does this mean for the future of Grammar schools in NI?