Mark Bain

A belief that Covid could have been contained within China should have been dispelled when Northern Ireland welcomed visitors from Wuhan on January 25, 2020, the Northern Ireland Covid inquiry has heard.

A belief that Covid could have been contained within China should have been dispelled when Northern Ireland welcomed visitors from Wuhan on January 25, 2020, the Northern Ireland Covid inquiry has heard.

Northern Ireland’s Chief Scientific Adviser has said the Executive was “naive” to believe there could be a Covid-secure environment when it introduced Westminster’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme in August 2020.

The Education Minister has vowed to keep knocking on the door of Executive colleagues to make sure capital funding is in place to ensure schools get the building work they require.

Belfast actor Ciaran Hinds has lent his distinctive voice to a new animation celebrating the achievements of integrated education since the Good Friday Agreement.

The teaching profession in Northern Ireland will no longer be able to discriminate on religious grounds when a new law comes into force this week.

The Education Authority has been urged to stop targeting rural primary schools after a Co Tyrone primary school comprising just 40 pupils was saved from closure following an intervention by Education Minister Paul Givan.

The only way a potential united Ireland can happen in the future is when a peaceful united Northern Ireland is established first, a new book argues.

It’s hard to run from the past. It invariably catches up with you, and when it does, it’s better to face it.

Children with vision impairment are missing out on vital education due to a lack of funding, according to sight loss charity The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).