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The Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE) has said it s bitterly disappointed after the DUP Education Minister refused a proposal to increase the number of pupils at a North Down college.
Strangford Integrated College had hoped to bring in an extra 20 pupils each year to go some way to offset the excess demand for places at the school.
The extra pupils would have brought the number admitted to the Newtownards school each year to 130.
NICIE said there was disappointment all round at the refusal of what would have been a modest increase in school numbers at the college. Over recent years the level of demand for integrated education at Strangford College has led to a series of temporary variations being granted by the Department of Education to help meet strong parental preference.