Article by Kaye McArdle

Below you’ll find information on the UK Education arrangements covering Northern Ireland. It includes national curriculum, grading and examination topics and finishes off with a link to Key Stage Two.com, a fun educational resource tool for children aged 7- 11.

PRIMARY AND SECONDARY (K-12) EDUCATIONMore than 90% of students in the UK attend publicly-funded state schools and Northern Ireland sends 350,000 children to 1,300 state schools. Primary schools usually include both girls and boys as pupils. Secondary schools may be either single-sex or co-educational.Education departments in England, Scotland and Wales fund schools through a Local Education Authority, but In Northern Ireland, schools are largely financed from public funds through five Education and Library Boards.

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