AQW 8922/17-22

Ms Paula Bradshaw
Alliance Party
South Belfast

Tabled Date: 16/10/2020
Answered On Date: 22/10/2020
Priority Written: Yes

Question:
To ask the Minister of Education what guidance he will give to post-primary schools on their use or otherwise of transfer tests as a means of selection, given the ongoing disruption and uncertainty around educational arrangements for pupils in their final year of primary school and the potential that it will not be practically possible to run such tests at all within public health guidance.

Answer:

Boards of Governors of schools are responsible for setting and applying the admissions criteria they use to select children for admission. My Department will write to post-primary schools that are using academic selection in 2021 to advise them of the importance of ensuring alternative methods of selecting children are available if required.