Education Minister Peter Weir has been urged to re-order his priorities in his handling of the logistics of the transfer test during the pandemic.
The Northern Ireland Teachers Council (NITC) questioned the timing of Education Minister Peter Weir s statement on Friday night when he urged all education stakeholders to work together to ensure children could sit the transfer test in their own schools.
Also on Friday his announcement that all Northern Ireland schools are to open again in the first week of January was slammed as a disaster waiting to happen .
The Northern Ireland s Teachers Council said last night that Minister Weir was attempting to deflect blame from himself for his failure to plan for an alternative to hundreds of children mixing in centralised test centres from January 9 .
Covid-19: Peter Weir to make assembly statement on school plans
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The education minister is to make a statement in the assembly chamber on Monday.
On Friday evening, Peter Weir announced his decision to reopen schools as normal in January.
The chair of Stormont s education committee called on Mr Weir to give an urgent statement on the school plans.
In a statement on Saturday, Chris Lyttle said the minister should tell MLAS the scientific and medical advice he has received relating to the safety of school restart, transfers tests and other examinations scheduled during the lockdown in January .
A statement to the assembly has been scheduled for Monday afternoon.