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 on Education were asked of 16 year olds in the Young Life and Times Survey.
Questions on Citizenship were asked of 16 year olds in the Young Life and Times Survey in 2018.
Questions on school and the transfer test have been included in Kids' Life and Times.

 

ARK Resources

• Methods for Assessing Demand for Integrated Education is a research project undertaken by Erin Early, Paula Devine and Minchen Liu in 2023, and outputs included a report as well as a Policy Brief.
• Citizenship practices and political literacy in young people (Research Update 129) by Alan Smith, Una O'Connor, Jessica Bates and Matt Milliken is based on data from the 2018 Young Life and Times survey, and 2018 Kids' Life and Times survey.
• New bottle: old wine! School bullying among primary school pupils and the emergence of cyberbulllying (Research Update 71) Conor McGuckin, Pauline K. Cummins and Christopher Alan Lewis is based on data from the 2008 and 2009 Kids' 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.
• 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 Northern Ireland Life and Times survey.
  
• Research Update 16 - Attitudes to Academic Selection in Northern Ireland - by Tony Gallagher and Alan Smith reports on results from the 2001 Northern Ireland Life and Times survey.
  
• Link to the CAIN web site page on Education in Northern Ireland.
  

Links

• Visit the Northern Ireland Department of Education.
• Higher, Further and Vocational education in Northern Ireland falls under the remit of the Department for the Economy.
• 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.

Maintained by Paula Devine