December 2018
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This timely conference focused on key issues for education policy in Northern Ireland.
Delegates considered new approaches to raising attainment, improving school standards, and opportunities for delivering change through effective school leadership, as well as identifying priorities for school improvement through trends in examination results.
They also examined the way forward for tackling inequalities and educational underachievement in hard to reach groups - including through increased parental engagement, community outreach and tackling poverty as a barrier to good education outcomes.
Those attending also discussed the pressure on schools to deliver effective services in the absence of an Executive and under the financial strain on budgetary cuts.
Further sessions assessed the next steps in shaping and developing the curriculum and models of assessment to fit the needs of Northern Ireland in the future - including meeting the needs of pupils, employers and the wider economy - and looked at at the part that schools can play in shaping and delivering the curriculum, including through greater collaboration with employers and industry, and how the FE and HE sectors can support them to do so.
