The Lady's Not For Turning
I'm just back from a day trip to St Malachy's High School, a non-selective school in Castlewellan. Maybe it was the sunny weather, the new building, the school's impressive natural setting amongst the Mourne mountains or the persuasive manner of its principal, but I came away thinking that if all non-selective schools made such a good first impression we wouldn't be having such a strenuous debate about post-primary transfer.
My reason for heading to St. Malachy's was to catch up with the Education Minister Caitriona Ruane for tomorrow's Inside Politics. She hadn't seen today's Daily Mirror front page predicting she could soon be sacked and replaced by Martina Anderson. So I felt it was my duty to bring along a copy for her perusal.
If you want to hear her reaction to the Daily Mirror story and to the erudite mutiny led by Sir Kenneth Bloomfield's Association for Quality Education, tune in to Inside Politics at 12.45 pm tomorrow on Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio Ulster.
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