Education Resources

Questions on Education were asked in 1999, 2001 and 2003.
Questions on Public Services were asked in 2007 as part of a UK-wide study on Public Attitudes and Public Service Responsiveness.
Questions were also asked of 12-17 year olds in the Young Life and Times Survey in 1999, and of 16 year olds in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Questions on school and the transfer test have been included in Kids' Life and Times.

 

ARK Resources

• Participation, happiness and achievement: the impact of poverty on the school experiences of 16-year olds, by Dirk Schubotz, David Simpson and Alex Tennant, uses data from the 2006 YLT survey, and is published by Save the Children.
• School Bullying in Northern Ireland - It hasn’t gone away you know (Research Update 48) by Stephanie Burns, uses data from the 1998 and 2005 Young Life and Times Surveys.
• Research Update 45 - To stay or not to stay: that is the question, by Katrina Lloyd and Paula Devine, focuses on Educational Maintenance Allowance using data from the 2005 Young Life and Times Survey.
• In Search of the Middle Ground: Integrated Education and Northern Ireland Politics (Research Update 42) by Bernadette C Hayes, Ian McAllister and Lizanne Dowds, uses data from the 1998-2003 Life and Times Survey, as well as 1998 and 2003 Election Surveys.
• Research Update 25 - School's out, by Paula Devine and Dirk Schubotz, explores the attitudes of 16 year olds towards the 11+ and school in general, using data from the 2003 Young Life and Times Survey.
• Research Update 17 - Attitudes to Lifelong Learning in Northern Ireland, by John Field is based on data from the 2001 Education module.
  
• Research Update 16 - Attitudes to Academic Selection in Northern Ireland - by Tony Gallagher and Alan Smith reports on results from the 2001 Education module.
  
• Link to the CAIN web site page on Education in Northern Ireland.
  
• Read selections from Education And Community In Northern Ireland Schools Apart? [AND] Schools Together? by John Darby, Seamus Dunn, Dominic Murray, Kenneth Mullan, Sean Farren, D. Batts and J. Harris
  
• The Online Research Bank includes a variety of summaries of research into education.
  

Links

• Visit the Northern Ireland Department of Education. The site includes a section on future post-primary education, as well as a Research section incorporating statistics and publications.
  
• Higher, Further and Vocational education in Northern Ireland falls under the remit of the Department of Employment and Learning.
• The Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) was set up by government to provide advice on and support for what is taught in schools and colleges in Northern Ireland and how it is assessed.
  
• The Transform Conflict site has been developed as a result of two cross-border projects, and will be of interest to teachers and others involved in the development of citizenship education.
  
• The Citizenship Foundation supports citizen education in schools. Its website includes information on the Foundation, its projects and research, as well as comprehensive resources for schools
  
• The Lifelong Learning site, which was set up to encourage, promote and develop lifelong learning, is supported by the Access to Learning for Adults Division of the Department for Education and Skills.
• The Department for Education and Skills website also provides guidance on sex and relationship education in schools.
• The Love for Life programmes provide information, advice and support with regard to issues pertinent to relationships and sexuality education, based on a Christian ethos.
• Being part and parcel of the school by Dirk Schubotz and Ruth Sinclair is the report of a qualitiative project which complements data from the Young Life and Times Survey.
• Participation, happiness and achievement: the impact of poverty on the school experiences of 16-year olds, by Dirk Schubotz, David Simpson and Alex Tennant, uses data from the 2006 Young Life and Times Survey, and is published by Save the Children.

Maintained by Paula Devine