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Expert panel recommends actions to achieve significant, long-lasting impact on children's learning

A REPORT examining links between persistent educational underachievement and socio-economic background has been published.

Covid-19 exposed effects of austerity on NI education

NI schools: £180m needed to tackle educational underachievement

BBC News By Robbie Meredith Published image captionThe newly-published research was a commitment in the New Decade New Approach agreement The Department of Education needs to spend more than £180m on widespread measures to tackle educational underachievement over the next five years. All children should also go to pre-school for at least four and a half hours a day. There needs to be significantly more investment in early years education. Those are some of the actions recommended in a wide-ranging report, called A Fair Start. The research had been a commitment in the New Decade New Approach (NDNA) agreement. The panel was expected to look particularly at the long-standing issues facing working class Protestant boys and come up with an action plan to tackle underachievement.

Pandemic Exposes 'Deterimental Impact' Of Austerity On Education | Northern Ireland News, 01/06/2021

Pandemic Exposes Deterimental Impact Of Austerity On Education The detrimental impact of a decade of austerity on education budgets and the socioeconomic polarisation of Northern Ireland s community has been exposed by Covid-19, a report has found. The findings were published in a report examining the links between persistent educational underachievement and socioeconomic background. Based on statistics from schools and further and higher education, it found that boys, especially those entitled to free school meals from both sides of the community divide, are underachieving. The report proposed interventions to help support boys in learning. Noel Purdy, chairman of the expert panel on educational underachievement, said the interventions would help boys maximise their potential.