IN PICTURES: Take a look through the Ballymena Times’ archive
Take a look back at the good old days with our selection of photographs from the paper’s archive.
Monday, 18th January 2021, 8:25 am
Take a look back at the good old days with our selection of photographs from the paper’s archive.
More every week in the Ballymena Times.
Here are some from 2007-2008
Attending the school leavers celebration lunch at St Louis Grammar School were, Back L-R, Clare O?Hara, Ursula Laverty, Laura McCloskey, Finbar Gaston, Ursula Doey, Margarite Blaney. Front, L-R, Sean McNally, Orla McMullan, Marianna McFeeley and Francis Mulvenna. BT20-124JC
AQE transfer test cancelled over lockdown uncertainty
Association for Quality Education has told schools there should be no assessment offered by AQE in this academic year
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The AQE transfer test scheduled for February 27, has been cancelled.
Doubt over transfer test as more grammar schools pull out 11 plus Transfer test. Story Simon Doyle. 09 January, 2021 01:00
GRAMMAR schools are withdrawing in growing numbers from a planned transfer test next month - casting doubt that it will take place at all.
As executive ministers argued yesterday about staging entrance assessments, several more schools revealed they were pulling out.
The Association for Quality Education (AQE) intends to hold a single exam for P7s on February 27.
The first of its three postponed papers was due to be taken today by more than 8,000 children.
Amid demands to call off all tests on health grounds, the executive discussed the issue yesterday but broke up without agreement.
The row over transfer tests for primary 7 pupils is no closer to being settled after heated exchanges at the NI Executive.
The Education Minster faced further calls to cancel the process completely, with a single test, run by AQE, scheduled to go ahead on February 27.
But the decision looks like it is slowly being taken out of the hands of AQE and the minister with five schools already abandoning the test.
DUP leader Arlene Foster denied blocking a call to put the issue to a vote and it was agreed at the Executive meeting that Peter Weir will now present a paper on the issue at the end of next week.