The political institutions are up and running again after a three-year hiatus. Part of the deal to bring the parties back into government is a promise to establish a group to examine and propose an action plan to address links between persistent educational underachievement and socio-economic background.
This will look specifically at the long-standing issues facing working class, Protestant boys. Details of this group and inquiry are yet to be made public.
At the same time, the newly restored Education Committee at the Stormont Assembly says it wants to re-instate a shelved probe into the issue. The Inquiry into Educational Underachievement was scrapped when the executive collapsed in January 2017. The cross-party committee had already started receiving evidence and submissions.
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