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02/07/2014
Three New Shared Campuses Announced
Education Minister John O'Dowd has announced three new Shared Education Campuses that will proceed to the planning stage.
The three projects are:
• Shared STEM and sixth form facilities for St Mary’s High School, Limavady and Limavady High School.
• Shared Educational Campus for Moy Regional Primary School and St John’s Primary School, Moy.
• Shared Educational Campus for Ballycastle High School and Cross and Passion College, Ballycastle.
The move follows an announcement in January 2014 of the launch of the Shared Education Campuses Programme, which stipulated a deadline of 31 March for receipt for expressions of interest.
Under the Executive’s 'Together: Building a United Community' initiative, a target has been set of commencing work on 10 campuses within the next five years.
Minister O'Dowd said: "I believe shared education has the potential to deliver real educational benefits, to ensure best use of resources and to further community cohesion.
"The Shared Education Campuses Programme provides schools with the opportunity to build on existing sharing arrangements and access funding to help improve or provide shared facilities. We received a significant level of interest in this programme with 16 applications. I am pleased to be in a position to announce the first three projects to be supported.
“This was the first call for projects and I am conscious that the limited time meant not everyone was able to have proposals worked up in time for the deadline. Therefore as well as approving the three projects to be advanced through to a detailed business case, I am announcing that a second call for projects will open in September this year.
"I am confident that we will have additional successful projects to announce in the future that will help achieve the target of 10 new campuses commenced in the next five years."
(IT/MH)
The three projects are:
• Shared STEM and sixth form facilities for St Mary’s High School, Limavady and Limavady High School.
• Shared Educational Campus for Moy Regional Primary School and St John’s Primary School, Moy.
• Shared Educational Campus for Ballycastle High School and Cross and Passion College, Ballycastle.
The move follows an announcement in January 2014 of the launch of the Shared Education Campuses Programme, which stipulated a deadline of 31 March for receipt for expressions of interest.
Under the Executive’s 'Together: Building a United Community' initiative, a target has been set of commencing work on 10 campuses within the next five years.
Minister O'Dowd said: "I believe shared education has the potential to deliver real educational benefits, to ensure best use of resources and to further community cohesion.
"The Shared Education Campuses Programme provides schools with the opportunity to build on existing sharing arrangements and access funding to help improve or provide shared facilities. We received a significant level of interest in this programme with 16 applications. I am pleased to be in a position to announce the first three projects to be supported.
“This was the first call for projects and I am conscious that the limited time meant not everyone was able to have proposals worked up in time for the deadline. Therefore as well as approving the three projects to be advanced through to a detailed business case, I am announcing that a second call for projects will open in September this year.
"I am confident that we will have additional successful projects to announce in the future that will help achieve the target of 10 new campuses commenced in the next five years."
(IT/MH)
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