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Tue 03 Mar 2009Catholic body backs short-term use of entrance exam in Northern schools
CATHOLIC SECOND-level schools in the North may use an entrance examination to select pupils in the short term pending the abolition of academic selection, a special commission has recommended.
The Commission for Catholic Education, which represents all 550 Catholic schools in Northern Ireland, said some over-subscribed grammar schools should be permitted to use an agreed and trusted entrance exam to replace the abolished 11-plus which allocated primary schoolchildren to second-level places – but only until 2012.
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