Education
  • 04/03/2010
    Direct school funding

    Basil McCrea MLA, Ulster Unionist Party Spokesperson for Education has questioned the amount of funding for schools the Minister for Education directly controls.

  • 02/03/2010
    UUP criticise Education Minister over human rights funding

    Basil McCrea Ulster Unionist Party Spokesperson for Education has criticised the Minister for Education's offer of £30,000 to Amnesty International's Lift Off project which provides teaching aids to help children learn about human rights, calling it a political folly at a time of fiscal crisis.

  • 01/03/2010
    Post-primary transfer needs to be brought to the Executive table

    Responding to educational developments today, UUP Education Spokesperson Basil McCrea MLA has again urged the First and deputy First Ministers to bring the issue of post-primary transfer to the Executive table.

  • 22/02/2010
    Lack of decision making condemned

    East Antrim Ulster Unionist MLA Roy Beggs has condemned the lack of decision making, over an extended period, by the Department of Education, which has allowed school enrolment numbers to decline in Islandmagee, putting into doubt the delivery of a long awaited new Primary School for the district.

  • 20/02/2010
    Coulter urges boost for silver surfers

    Rev Dr Robert Coulter, has called on Culture, Arts and Leisure Minister Nelson McCausland to fund initiatives which will encourage the elderly to develop their computer skills.

  • 19/02/2010
    Prep schools next on Ministerial hit list

    Ulster Unionist education spokesperson Basil McCrea has said that plans to withdraw Departmental funding from prep schools amounts to ';equality at the expense of common sense';.

  • 16/02/2010
    Ruane embodies Executive dysfunctionality

    Speaking after Caitriona Ruane, newly announced member of the Executive working group, issued a further statement on academic selection, UUP education spokesperson Basil McCrea MLA said that the Education Minister is the ';embodiment of Executive dysfunctionality';.

  • 15/02/2010
    No deal on Hillsborough without education

    Ulster Unionist Party Chief Whip Fred Cobain has said that ';without a resolution on education, the UUP will not be putting its hand up for the Hillsborough arrangement';.

  • 08/02/2010
    Education crisis must not be sidelined

    Basil McCrea has claimed that there is a mounting crisis within the Department of Education that can no longer be ignored or sidelined by policing and justice negotiations.

  • 02/02/2010
    Elliott expresses his delight as Aeronautical courses are named

    Ulster Unionist MLA, Tom Elliott, has said that he is ';both delighted and optimistic'; after student courses created by the South west College in conjunction with St Angelo airport were published.