Talk:Education in Northern Ireland/Archive 1

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 * There needs to be information added to this article about the Catholic Maintained sector, numbers of schools, etc —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.152.62.23 (talk) 16:38, 23 February 2007 (UTC).

Original research
The User who keeps trying to change the opening sentence has started identical Talk strands at two other articles, but not here for some reason. If you wish to respond, I have replied here: --Mais oui! 08:32, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Talk:Education in Scotland


 * The more I read this intro., the less sense it makes.


 * Education in Northern Ireland differs slightly from systems used elsewhere in the United Kingdom, though is more similar to that used in England and Wales than it is to Scotland. (may be true). The Northern Ireland system emphasises a greater depth of education compared to the English and Welsh systems (in the Scottish article it states that the Eng. Welsh and NI are "deeper" that Scottish, so is the NI even "deeper"?)


 * School holidays in Northern Ireland are also considerably different to the rest of the United Kingdom. - "considerably" different to what? it cannot relate to the previous section because that states the differences between the systems are "slight".


 * As I said, nonsense, and requires a major re-write. Note also the use of the word "system" which I though you deprecated.

Age determined at 1 September?
I live in Northern Ireland and I'm pretty sure your age that you enter school at is determined on 1 July, though I know it's 1 September in England (if not the rest of the UK) so I can see where the confusion arose. Germs 17:51, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

-- It is 1st July in Northern Ireland. I know Wikipedia is against personal research but I am from NI and had to start school when I was five because I was born in mid July, missing the deadline by a couple of weeks, otherwise I would've started at four. BenjMartin 22:15, 04 August 2006 (UTC)

Education throughout England, Northern Ireland and Wales now standardised?
See my commented note in the first paragraph, relating to the differences in education between these regions, "education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has surely been 'standardised' since the introduction of the 16+ / GCSEs..?" If this is true, then surely it applies to the notion that "emphasises a greater depth of education" (for what ever that means exactly), as stated as fact in the intro, is certainly less applicable or even a complete fabrication in the year 2007.. and since 1987? -- Mal 17:15, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

Top of the UK
the article states that Northern Irish schools turn out GCSE and A-Level results that are top of the UK. Does this include comparison to SQA qualifications? I would imagine so, I've heard schools are good there, but could the article maybe point this out? as it is unclear in its current form. Benson85 01:35, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

--- It should be noted that this statement only referred to the total average results per region, of all students per region, this being a higher value in Northern Ireland. (In other words, it is a statistical fact which points only to that the body of Northern Irish students performed very slightly higher than the bodies of students in the other regions.) It did not point to that Northern Irish schools had more of the very highest individual results per subject in the UK, nor had a higher percentage of students acheiving within a band of the very highest results. (unsigned) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.14.85.194 (talk) 13:33, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Scope of Article
Is this article supposed to only cover Primary and Secondary Education? If not there is nothing on University or the Colleges of Further and Higher Education (the latter seems to be almost completely missing from Wikipedia (including the template "Education in Northern Ireland" which considering the students enrolled on them far outnumber those at the Universities).Njg (talk) 01:41, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Modern Languages Compulsory?
Is that really still true? I thought the Goverment got rid of that.--ZincBelief (talk) 18:55, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Something missing in the lead
"At A-Level, one third of students in Northern achieved A grades in 2007, compared with England and Wales" - that doesn't make sense. Presumably it means either "one third more students" or "compared with [some missing figure] in England and Wales". Someone who knows, please correct! 86.132.139.119 (talk) 02:11, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

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