Numerous post-primary schools across the North are facing closure or amalgamation through the massive area-based planning exercise.
Crippling budget cuts and ever-decreasing pupil numbers means action is being taken to reduce the number of schools across.
Area-based planning will develop a network of viable and sustainable schools capable of delivering effectively the revised curriculum and offer pupils a wide subject choice.
Draft post-primary plans are now out for public consultation. This 16-week consultation is almost twice as long as what is considered good practice, although the Northern Ireland Assembly’s Education Committee is now pushing for an extension.
Committee members say they are receiving feedback from many schools, parents and concerned organisations that the consultation time is too short.
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