The vast majority of grammar schools will not use academic criteria to admit pupils in 2021, the BBC understands. On Friday Banbridge Academy, which had used the Association for Quality Education ...

NEW admissions criteria being drawn up by grammar schools must not further entrench gaps in educational opportunity, it has been urged. With all 11-plus-style exams cancelled, schools are devising ...

Grammar schools should consider overhauling their admissions criteria to counter new findings that privately educated children are four times more likely to pass the entrance exams than poor ...

IN trying to justify the acceptance of 109 non-A grade pupils out of a total of 136 first year admissions to Campbell College (Belfast Telegraph, July 6) the headmaster Jay Piggot inadvertently ...

February 26, 2021 at 1:00am GMT. AN all-girls grammar school has changed its admissions criteria following advice from lawyers. Victoria College Belfast will give higher priority to children ...

Certainly, some professions require a solid grasp of the rules of grammar. Those seeking careers in areas like journalism, corporate communications and publishing should be able to demonstrate ...

On Friday Banbridge Academy, which had used the Association for Quality Education (AQE) transfer test, published admissions criteria without using any academic criteria. The school, which has more ...

He takes pride in the fact that his school has fashioned a curriculum that meets the needs not only of the very bright boy but also harvests "the talents of the less able students" ...

After the transfer test was cancelled, schools have drawn up new criteria for choosing pupils.

As a result, grammar schools - which are attended by about 45% of post-primary pupils in Northern Ireland - are having to draw up new criteria for how they will select pupils in 2021.