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The Department of Education - Northern Ireland - The official government site for education in Northern Ireland.
Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment - Provides advice on and support for what is taught in schools and colleges in Northern Ireland and how it is assessed.
Comenius 3.1 In-service Training Project - The Northern Ireland portion of the EU's Socrates project.
School Libraries of the Future Project - Information on this Northern Ireland initiative.
North-Eastern Education and Library Board - Addresses, news and services for Co. Antrim schools and libraries. Features details on projects, documents for public viewing and contact information.
Student Centre for NI - Student-related information, including student welfare, entertainment, student campaigns and community relations, from the National Union of Students and Union of Students in Ireland.
Northern Ireland Credit Accumulation and Transfer System (NICATS) - This framework makes learning flexible, adaptable, valued, accessible, tailor-made, quality-driven and market-led.
Department for Employment and Learning - Includes government reports and funding request forms, notice boards on education and employment rights, and information about the Department's structure.
Key Skills Resources in Northern Ireland - Provides details of the services, publications and location of the three resource centres in Northern Ireland.
Community Work Education and Training Network - They promote community development through education and training. Includes their aims, contact information, a list of member organisations, a noticeboard, a periodic bulletin, and downloadable resources such as a database of community development programmes.
BBC Northern Ireland - Education - Educational material and resources for pupils and teachers from primary school to school-leavers.
Educational Guidance Service for Adults - Provides information, advice and guidance on all learning opportunities available for adults in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland Open College Network - Details of the process of accreditation, an explanation of credits and levels, together with the documentation needed to get a learning opportunity accredited by the NIOCN.
Transform Conflict - Resources include information on cross-border and international links for schools, and curriculum development materials on conflict, citizenship and human rights.
Lifelong Learning Development Unit - Continuing education at the University of Ulster - With lists of courses at their various locations, details of qualifications available, and information on current projects and research.
One World Centre for Northern Ireland - Development Education centre and resource base in Belfast, for global and third world studies. Information about activities, resources and publications.
Workers' Educational Association in Northern Ireland - Adult learning resources, including course listings and branch details.
Southern Education and Library Board Curriculum Advisory and Support Service - Provides details of local centres in Armagh, Dungannon, Craigavon and Newry, plus news and course information.
CLASS Project - Collaborative project to equip schools with an appropriate information management system. Provides details of regional teams, training courses and support facilities.
Western Education and Library Board - Local Authority responsible for education, library and youth services in Fermanagh, Omagh, Strabane, Derry city and Limavady. Includes news and resources for teachers, plus information on local library services and youth activities.
Northern Ireland Network for Education - Provides learning and support to help teachers integrate ICT into the classroom.
Southern Education and Library Board - Covering areas of Down, Armargh and Tyrone. Provides information about services provided, plus news, reports and contacts.
Engineering Training Council - Provides information on engineering training, qualifications and Modern Apprenticeships.
North Eastern Education and Library Board - Local education and library authority for Co. Antrim and the eastern part of Co. Londonderry. Details about all aspects of the board's work, contact information, curriculum and job news.
Regional Support Centre of Northern Ireland - Includes reports, technical support and curriculum resources.
Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education - Features information about local schools, plus news, reports and contact details.
Institute of Advanced Motorists in Northern Ireland - Includes events calendar, FAQ and details of the training offered at local branches.
Upper Bann Institute - Includes course details and current staff vacancies. Campuses in Banbridge, Lurgan, Portadown and Craigavon.
Training for Women Network Limited - Includes history, members services, training information and events.
Dissolving Boundaries through Technology in Education - Project designed to support schools in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to engage in collaborative curricular projects using computer and video conferencing. Includes news, background and information on the schools involved.
South Eastern Education and Library Board - Local authority for education and library services in the District Council areas of Ards, Castlereagh, Down, Lisburn and North Down. Includes publications and curriculum information.
IMS Motorcycle Training in Northern Ireland - Training in manual and automatic gearbox cars, and also motorcycle training. Includes FAQ, area coverage and contact details.
College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise - Provides course information and news for the three campuses. The college is part of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Association of Northern Ireland Colleges - Includes news, publications and relevant links.
Roadwise - Provides information about road safety and advanced driver training available in the province.
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(Daniel Clowes) Education You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. -- Henry Ford Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. -- Oscar Wilde Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Education "Better is the enemy of good." (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire, 1694-1778) Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony. -- Oliver Herford In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee. -- Polish proverb "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Education Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house. -- Jean Ke Nothing says loving like marrying your cousin! -- Al Bundy "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Education Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction. -- John Cage Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Assassins! -- Arturo Toscanini, to his orchestra Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. -- H. L. Mencken Education Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate. -- Mark B. Cohen "Beauty without expression is boring." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." (John Quincy Adams) Education Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." 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(Ed Harris, as Gene Kranz, Apollo 13) Education I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced. -- Helen Rowland Education The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Winston Churchill I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest. -- Alexandre Dumas pere My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it. - John F. Kennedy when asked what is his favorite song It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -- Albert Einstein Education Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four. -- Katharine Hepburn The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people. -- Lucille S. Harper Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming. -- John R. Wooden, Practical Modern Basketball Education "It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend." (William Blake) You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward I find television very educating. Every time sombody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx Education The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. -- Lou Holtz "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist. -- Thomas Carlyle Education It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) I worship the quicksand he walks in. - Art Buchwald Luck is the residue of design. - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team Education We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. -- Wehrner von Braun I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, "I'd like some fries." The girl at the counter said, "Would you like some fries with that?" -- Jay Leno "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) Education
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