As part of national campaigns this week, Make Education Count Northern Ireland wrote to all MLAs and MPs in Northern Ireland to remind them of the principles behind the Make Education Count campaign. They also pointed them in the direction of UCU’s members’ video which shows the work members are doing throughout the education sector.

UCU’s event in the Long Gallery at Stormont on 20 January, highlighted the continuing stark inequalities in educational attainment and opportunities depending where you live in Northern Ireland. UCU produced 18 constituency profiles, each containing forty statistics regarding further and higher education in Northern Ireland. The profiles – produced as a 24 page booklet – [...]

Northern Ireland’s MLAs are being asked to give their backing to UCU’s Make Education Count campaign. At an event at Stormont, the UCU – supported by the Ulster Teachers Union (UTU) and the Irish National Teachers Organisation (INTO) – is presenting statistics that detail how Northern Ireland continues to lag behind the rest of the [...]

Ahead of the launch in Northern Ireland, UCU released figures that revealed that Northern Ireland is bottom of UK tables that measure employment rates and people with qualifications. Northern Ireland is the region with the highest percentage of people without qualifications. One in five (21.8%) people have no qualifications, which is a long way off the [...]

UCU this week called on politicians of all parties in the United Kingdom to ‘Make Education Count’. The union took the message to Westminster, Cardiff, Stormont and Holyrood and encouraged everyone who had a passion for education to join the campaign and get the UK back on track. UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: ‘We [...]