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Education Reform in Northern Ireland: Maintaining the Distance?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

Penny McKeown  and
Michael Connolly
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Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the extent to which education reform in Northern Ireland has developed along separate lines and to comment on the degree to which a part of the UK can move independently with respect to key social policies. The next section will examine in more detail the unique features of education in Northern Ireland, following which it will discuss the main elements of the legislation. In doing so, we will draw comparisons with the themes underpinning recent developments in Britain.

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Journal of Social Policy , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , April 1992 , pp. 211 - 232
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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