Talk:Education in Northern Ireland

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Contents 1 Template:Education infobox 2 Original research 3 Age determined at 1 September? 4 Education throughout England, Northern Ireland and Wales now standardised? 5 Top of the UK 6 Scope of Article

[edit] Template:Education infobox

I created a template, Template:Education infobox which can give a quick at a glance demographics table for education articles. See its implementation at Education in the United States and feel free to help improve the template.--naryathegreat | (talk) 01:00, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

There needs to be information added to this article about the Catholic Maintained sector, numbers of schools, etc —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.152.62.23 (talk) 16:38, 23 February 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Original research

The User who keeps trying to change the opening sentence has started identical Talk strands at two other articles, but not here for some reason. If you wish to respond, I have replied here:

• Talk:Education in Scotland#Suggested minor change to Intro

--Mais oui! 08:32, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

The more I read this intro., the less sense it makes.

Education in Northern Ireland differs slightly from systems used elsewhere in the United Kingdom, though is more similar to that used in England and Wales than it is to Scotland. (may be true). The Northern Ireland system emphasises a greater depth of education compared to the English and Welsh systems (in the Scottish article it states that the Eng. Welsh and NI are "deeper" that Scottish, so is the NI even "deeper"?)

School holidays in Northern Ireland are also considerably different to the rest of the United Kingdom. - "considerably" different to what? it cannot relate to the previous section because that states the differences between the systems are "slight".

As I said, nonsense, and requires a major re-write. Note also the use of the word "system" which I though you deprecated.

[edit] Age determined at 1 September?

I live in Northern Ireland and I'm pretty sure your age that you enter school at is determined on 1 July, though I know it's 1 September in England (if not the rest of the UK) so I can see where the confusion arose. Germs 17:51, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

-- It is 1st July in Northern Ireland. I know Wikipedia is against personal research but I am from NI and had to start school when I was five because I was born in mid July, missing the deadline by a couple of weeks, otherwise I would've started at four. BenjMartin 22:15, 04 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Education throughout England, Northern Ireland and Wales now standardised?

See my commented note in the first paragraph, relating to the differences in education between these regions, "education in England, Wales and Northern Ireland has surely been 'standardised' since the introduction of the 16+ / GCSEs..?" If this is true, then surely it applies to the notion that "emphasises a greater depth of education" (for what ever that means exactly), as stated as fact in the intro, is certainly less applicable or even a complete fabrication in the year 2007.. and since 1987? --Mal 17:15, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Top of the UK

the article states that Northern Irish schools turn out GCSE and A-Level results that are top of the UK. Does this include comparison to SQA qualifications? I would imagine so, I've heard schools are good there, but could the article maybe point this out? as it is unclear in its current form. Benson85 01:35, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scope of Article

Is this article supposed to only cover Primary and Secondary Education? If not there is nothing on University or the Colleges of Further and Higher Education (the latter seems to be almost completely missing from Wikipedia (including the template "Education in Northern Ireland" which considering the students enrolled on them far outnumber those at the Universities).Njg (talk) 01:41, 24 November 2007 (UTC)