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The faculties reported tutorial assortment “is, and stays, a crucial ingredient of the admissions standards”
Catholic grammar universities across Belfast have verified they will use tutorial choice to decide on pupils for 2021/22.
Lumen Christi College or university in Londonderry has also verified it will use the GL Assessment strategy.
In a joint assertion, the schools’ boards of governors reported academic assortment “is, and continues to be, a essential part of the admissions standards”.
In the latest weeks, a number of Catholic grammar educational facilities throughout Northern Eire announced they have been scrapping the check.
Colleges in Enniskillen, Newry, Kilkeel and Derry explained they were being executing away with selection for a single yr simply because of “the disruption to the training of pupils since March 2020”.
The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland experienced previously urged Catholic grammars not to use the test to acknowledge pupils for the 2021/22 educational yr.
Nevertheless, grammar faculties which includes Aquinas, Rathmore, St Dominics, Our Woman and St Patrick’s School in Knock, St Mary’s Christian Brothers and Dominican School, have insisted collection will go forward for the 2021 intake of pupils.
‘Mitigating measures’
Their governors stated they “are aware of the unparalleled situation facing all of our younger men and women” and that they “want to supply as considerably certainty and reassurance as doable for both of those pupils and moms and dads”.
They explained they welcomed “the mitigating actions being taken by the Put up Most important Transfer Consortium to make the GL Assessment papers as obtainable as attainable for pupils”.
“We also welcome that extra time will be afforded this yr to the pupils to complete every single of the two papers,” the statement mentioned.
St Patrick’s Academy in Dungannon, County Tyrone, has also previously reported it will use the GL examination to select pupils for September 2021.
None of the 30 grammars who use the option AQE examination have indicated they will not use it to acknowledge pupils.
