Education Authority

Councillor Christopher Jackson.

Derry Councillor brands sinister threats to schools 'despicable'

The price of school dinners is set to rise.

School meal prices to rise by 30p as EA announces cost savings

Councillor Grace Uí Niallais, Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council; Oskar Blake (Lumen Christi College); Erin McGinley (Thornhill College); Lucie Hyndman (St Cecilia’s College); and Mary Blake, Vice Chair of the Board of Governors, St Columba’s Primary School.

Former St. Columba PS pupils speak eloquently against closure at democracy event

Principal of school closed due to leaks hopes to have pupils back on Monday

Eastwood backs campaign to save St. Columba’s, Newbuildings

Councillor Harkin successfully proposed writing to EA and the Education Minister.

Call for urgent action on school placements

(Left to right) Greater Shantallow Community Arts staff Simon Breslin, Ellie Dunne, Aislinn Breslin, Lillian Anderson and Mark Cooke pictured with new YouthStart information leaflets being distributed in Galliagh following the launch of the new youth programme for young people aged 9-18.

YouthStart to deliver projects for young people in Galliagh

Two thirds of controlled and maintained schools in Derry were in deficit at the end of March this year, according to figures released by Education Minister Paul Givan.

66% of schools record negative financial position with collective deficit of £8m

Almost half a million user accounts have been restored after a cyber attack targeting the North’s school system that affected pupils and staff in Derry.

414,000 user accounts restored after cyber attack

Drumahoe Primary School. INLS4714-118KM

Education Authority proposes 26 place statutory nursing unit at Drumahoe PS

Councillors Shaun Harkin, Brian Tierney and Emma McGinley.

Derry/Strabane council warns vital youth services face ‘cliff edge’

Pádraig Delargy

Summer schemes at special schools to go ahead following talks and U-turn

Proposed elevations of the planned SEN extension at Eglinton Primary School.

Plans for SEN extension at Eglinton Primary School in Derry lodged

SDLP MLA Mark H Durkan.

Durkan: 74,000 pupils classed as chronic absentees

Snow outside Buncrana on Sunday.

Freezing rain expected overnight as alerts and updates are issued for Derry

The Mayor of Derry Ruairí McHugh received pupils at a reception in the Guildhall, saying ‘their energy and smiles brightened the Mayor’s Office, and it was a real pleasure hearing about their studies and aspirations’.

Nazareth House pupils to resume face-to-face learning at St. Anne’s in January
Pupils from Nazareth House Primary School will return to face-to-face learning in early January after St. Anne’s Primary School agreed to share their facilities in Rosemount.
Kevin Mullan

People walking across Guildhall Square, yesterday afternoon, during the strong winds and rain brought by Storm Brendan. DER0220GS – 007

Storm Bram: Derry council closes parks, cemeteries, sports facilities

On Thursday the Mayor of Derry Ruairí McHugh received pupils at a reception in the Guildhall, saying ‘their energy and smiles brightened the Mayor’s Office, and it was a real pleasure hearing about their studies and aspirations’.

Derry businesses rally to ensure Nazareth House kids can have Christmas dinner!

On Thursday the Mayor of Derry Ruairí McHugh received pupils at a reception in the Guildhall, saying ‘their energy and smiles brightened the Mayor’s Office, and it was a real pleasure hearing about their studies and aspirations’.

Nazareth House closure a ‘travesty’ says Harkin as talks continue

Nazareth House Primary School

Derry’s Nazareth House PS temporarily closed due to concerns over roof

Strabane Sinn Féin Councillor Paul Boggs.

Lack of youth provision in Strabane raised

Mark H Durkan. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Families being 'pushed further to the brink' - MLA

UUP Alderman Janice Montgomery.

‘I saw the pressure on schools first-hand’

Professor Siobhán O'Neill

O’Neill says withdrawal of guidance for trans pupils ‘incredible concerning’

An Atlantic chart showing Storm Amy over the North West.

Emergency early closure of all Derry and Tyrone schools as Storm Amy arrives

Paul Givan

Givan asks for withdrawal of trans guidance and issues new policy for schools

Special needs children have a variety of different challenges and one size does not fit all.

Political opinion: Workers Party Youth Wing spokesperson welcomes extra special ...
Odhran Cassidy, Workers Party youth wing spokesperson, has welcomed the extra special needs places to be crated by the Education Authority - a total of 1374.
The Workers Party Northern Ireland Region

Education Minister Paul Givan. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

All schools must be involved in SEN provision

Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk stands in front of the shattered windows of Tesla's Cybertruck at Tesla Design Center in Hawthorne, California on November 21, 2019. (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN / AFP) (Photo by FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)

£13m of local public sector workers’ pensions divested from Tesla

Pádraig Delargy

61% of Derry schools in the red with collective deficit of £6,487,559

The Tesla Cybertruck is an all-electric, battery-powered, light-duty truck from Tesla.

£13m of local public sector workers’ pensions held in Tesla

An 11-year-girl has died after being struck by a car while exiting a bus outside Castledawson. Pixel-Shot - stock.adobe.com

Young girl (11) struck by car after exiting school bus outside Castledawson dies

Michael Allen

Lisneal College head Michael Allen taking up new position at Strule Campus

Group pictured at Bakery and Professional Cookery Event held at Craft Training, Springstown Industrial, during Northern Ireland Apprenticeship Week. Included in the photograph are Peter Heany, Susan Stranaghan and Aaron McAree, Department for the Economy, tutors Mark Hasson and Aaron O’Hagan, Training Manager Peter Reid, apprentices and prospective apprentices. Photo: George Sweeney

IN PICS: EA visits Craft Training during Apprentice Week

Sinn Fein MLA Padraig Delargy.

Derry Sinn Féin MLA Delargy welcomes pay deal for educational support staff

Pupils and staff at Culmore Primary School celebrating their successful parental ballot to transform to Integrated status. Photograph by Declan Roughan,

Culmore Primary School to officially become integrated in September 2025

Pádraig Delargy holding up photographs of dilapidated schools in Derry in Stormont on Tuesday as he called for greater investment in the schools estate in the city.

Delargy shows photos of black mould classrooms as he blasts ‘conditions’

Dozens of families have contacted a local MLA worried because their young primary seven leavers don’t know what ‘big school’ they will be going to in September.

Dozens of families ‘worried’ as P7s don’t know what ‘school’ they will attend

Ciara Ferguson

Talks ongoing on potential new Skeoge youth centre on EA land

Marie Lindsay

Marie Lindsay appointed to the board of the Education Authority

James McBride (7) outside his primary school in Derry.

‘It’s always a fight just to get our son an education’

The Education Authority has applied for permission to develop a new extension at St. Patrick's and St. Brigid's College in Claudy.

Major extension at St. Patrick’s & St. Brigid’s College

Former Dean of St Columb's Cathedral William Morton during an pilgrimage to Cecil Frances Alexander's grave (left). Cecil Frances Alexander (right).

Sale of home of ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’ writer Cecil Frances Alexander

Derry schools are to be surveyed for the presence of RAAC.

Surveys of Derry schools to check for reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete

Ballougry Primary School

Closure of Ballougry postponed with school allowed to continue next year

Sinn Féin MLA Pádraig Delargy.

Education department must intervene over ‘distraught’ unplaced children - MLA

Yara Moustafa.

Catholic, Protestant, 'Other': 'I refuse to be called other' - Derry schoolgirl

Unanimous support for local youth workers was expressed at the last full Council meeting in the Guildhall.

Unanimous support for youth workers providing support on streets and in clubs

Belmont Nursery School on Racecourse Road. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2310GS – 24

Derry nursery staff forced to fundraise for replacement storage unit

Schools (file picture).

'Continual degradation' of funding having massive impact - education chiefs

School bus (file picture)

Derry & Strabane reps call for free school transport

Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Lollipop crossing staff recruitment freeze reports 'alarming' - Durkan MLA

Some of the treacherous road conditions school bus driver and local Alliance Councillor Philip McKinney has encountered on his school runs so far this winter.

'Will it take a serious accident for action to be taken?'

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Families arrived at Bay Road Park to take part in a successful world record attempt for the most people dressed as astronauts in one place. Photo: George Sweeney. DER2216GS – 191

Derry Journal Review of the Year 2022 - April

Councillors warned youth club services are under threat.

Councillors demand 'disgraceful' youth services cuts are reversed

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