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Sir Robert Salisbury’s PISA Problem

29 Tuesday Jan 2013

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Belfast Newsletter, Danny Kinahan MLA, John O'Dowd, Mervyn Storey MLA, Sir Robert Salisbury, Stormont Education Committee, the Independent Review of the Common Funding Scheme

Hugh Morrison letterSalisbury Report

Sir Robert Salisbury, Chairman of the Independent Review of the Common Funding Scheme for Northern Ireland schools has published his report which will be presented to the Stormont Education Committee this week.

In the section 7 addressing Tackling Education Disadvantage the above summary appears;

 

Sir Robert Salisbury’s problem is that his reliance upon the PISA data has been challenged. It has been stated in a published newspaper, The Belfast Newsletter, http://www.newsletter.co.uk/community/your-view/schools-data-doesn-t-add-up-to-failure-claims-1-4632750that PISA suffers from a mathematical conceptual error. To date neither the Education Minister, John O’Dowd nor his appointee have addressed the question.

It remains for members of the Education Committee to hold Sir Robert to account. Watch with interest on Wednesday 30th January to see if the question is asked and answered.

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Politicians cannot be trusted on 11-plus exams for grammar schools

21 Wednesday Nov 2012

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11-plus, academic selection at 11, Belfast Newsletter, Danny Kinahan MLA, Democratic Unionist Party, DENI, Grammar Schools, John O'Dowd, Mervyn Storey MLA, NewsLetter, Ulster Unionist Party

On Wednesday 21st November, 2012 the Belfast Newsletter  published an Opinion article http://www.newsletter.co.uk/community/your-view/policy-will-end-grammar-schools-1-4505902 by PACE highlighting attempts by the two major unionist parties to hand control of unregulated 11-plus testing back into the hands of an anti-choice Sinn Fein Education Minister. Visit the Newsletter site – then make your pro-selection views known via the comments section.

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