NICVA welcomes government announcement on academic selection
The Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action welcomes today’s decision to end academic selection at age 11, which has blighted the lives of hundreds of thousands of children over the decades.
There are many problems in the education system and academic selection is at the heart of them,
said NICVA chief executive Seamus McAleavey
Time after time we have found that improvements to benefit all children have crashed on the rock of the 11-plus. NICVA believes we must give every child an opportunity to excel at school and to reach their full potential.”
NICVA believes that every child should move smoothly from primary to secondary education and gradually take more responsibility for choosing their options at age 14, 16 and 18.
“Building an equal society will be difficult but it can be done if we remove the social discrimination of the 11-plus,”
Mr McAleavey added.
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