Education Minister has today announced the first
tranche of cross-cutting initiatives to be rolled out over the
next two years under the RAISE Programme.
The initiatives have been designed to provide an assessment of
their effectiveness in tackling educational disadvantage across
all types of education setting.
They will allow schools to avail of opportunities to work
together to develop professional learning clusters, take part in
research into the impact of AI on literacy, bring opportunities
for children and young people to improve their digital literacy
and put in place literacy, numeracy and revision support for
children and young people in collaboration with
communities.
£3.5m of the RAISE Programme funding has been allocated to
deliver the initiatives announced today in the 25/26 and 26/27
academic years.
said: “Today I am
announcing an initial tranche of seven RAISE Cross-Cutting
Initiatives. They will complement the ongoing work in each of the
18 RAISE localities to deliver a range of educational support
measures for children and young people in these areas and
beyond.
“The RAISE Programme provides an important opportunity to
look afresh at the educational issues linked to and perpetuated
by deprivation and to drive forward a whole community,
place-based approach to remove the barriers to learning and
educational achievement that some of our children and young
people are facing. These new initiatives will be open to
all schools and will provide opportunities to
pilot innovative proposals, support research
methodologies and build evidence for sustainable change.
“My department will work to develop these initiatives
over the next number of weeks to allow this initial tranche of
projects to be put in place for the new academic year.”
In addition to the cross-cutting initiatives announced today,
area specific objectives identified in Strategic Area Plans are
currently being developed by each of the 18 RAISE localities
across Northern Ireland.
Further information on the RAISE Programme is available at:
www.education-ni.gov.uk/articles/raise-programme
Notes to editors:
- The RAISE Programme is funded through the Shared Island Fund
and represents an investment of £20million/€24million over the
next two years, with the potential for further funding.
