AQW 8922/17-22 Written question to the Minister of Education
To ask the Minister of Education what guidance he will give to post-primary schools on their use or otherwise of transfer tests as a means of selection, given the ongoing disruption and uncertainty around educational arrangements for pupils in their final year of primary school and the potential that it will not be practically possible to run such tests at all within public health guidance.
Asked by Paula Bradshaw MLA on 16 October 2020
- Answered
- Written
- Priority
- Tabled
- 16 October 2020
- Answer due by
- 26 October 2020
- Answered
- 22 October 20206 days after tabling
- Department
- Department of Education
- Priority question
- Yes
Answer
Boards of Governors of schools are responsible for setting and applying the admissions criteria they use to select children for admission. My Department will write to post-primary schools that are using academic selection in 2021 to advise them of the importance of ensuring alternative methods of selecting children are available if required.