📢 Exciting research launch news!
 PFIE joined with QUB & the NI Interfaith Forum for research on Religious Education in NI.
 📘 Religion and Worldviews Education for All
🗓 4 Dec 10:00-11:30am
📍Riddell Hall, 185 Stranmillis Road
🎟️ Tickets are free, registration necessary tinyurl.com/3j8u58mm

Calling all young creatives! Our new all-Ireland/cross-border LIFELANGS project is looking for a new logo, and we need your help 😀 Our logo contest is open to all under 18s resident in Ireland/Northern Ireland. Find out more on our website lifelangs.com/logo-contest/

Come and work with us to develop Peer Mediation! For details of how to apply, go to www.quaker.org.uk/jobs To arrange an informal discussion of the role, please email peaceedu@quaker.org.uk

Stephen Lawrence should be celebrating his 51st birthday today, but he was murdered in a racist attack at just 18. As we look to the horrifying resurgence of racist violence, Stephen’s story serves as a poignant reminder of why racial justice matters. Rest in power, Stephen. Your legacy lives on 🖤

✨ Imagine this… ✨ 📚 You open a book and find a character who looks like you, sounds like you, or shares the same traditions as your family! 📚 🌍 That’s what our We Are Belfast workshops are all about!

Inclusivity Training - Orla McKeating

Creating Inclusive Learning through Stories At Still I Rise Diversity Storytelling, our mission is to amplify underrepresented voices, bridge cultural gaps, and cultivate empathy through the power of ...

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The same Chris Philp didn’t say this for Ukraine. The same Chris Philp said the opposite “Chris Philp MP says biometric checks before arrival are "essential"” @scotnational.bsky.social news.sky.com/story/delay-...

Delay biometric visa checks for 80 Gaza students, dozens of MPs urge UK government

Barry Gardiner MP says educating students from Gaza is about "giving the state of Palestine the possibility of a future". But Chris Philp MP says biometric checks before arrival are "essential".

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Although developed for the Scottish context, this is great for Irish schools also

Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights@crer-scotland.bsky.social · last yr.

Scottish Government has published new interim guidance on addressing racism and racist incidents in schools, developed in collaboration with CRER and fellow members of the Anti-Racism in Education Programme's Racism and Racist Incidents Subgroup. www.gov.scot/publications...

These topics are much more complex and nuanced than a few lines can address, but glad that a couple of the educational issues I raised, including the need for more explicit commitments to antiracism in the curriculum, made the cut in this piece.

‘Where are the foreigners?’: does a facile explanation lie behind Ballymena’s outbreak of hate?

Northern Ireland faces stark questions over the racism, xenophobia and intolerance that has forced families from abroad to flee

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Pleased to have contributed to this systematic review of literature on academic selection in the UK, led by Ian Cantley. Consistent with the emphasis on evidence in NI education policy, it offers a robust evaluation and synthesis of the research. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Review of Education | BERA Educational Research Journal | Wiley Online Library

Academic selection for post-primary education is an important feature of the educational landscape in some parts of the United Kingdom, most notably in Northern Ireland and some areas of England, in ...

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"A career is meant to be something you grow into – layered with experience, trust and time, but in academia these days, you’re uprooted before anything can truly take hold. The opportunities to stay put and flourish are so often dependent on whim and circumstance." @timeshighered.bsky.social

I’m tired of the academic road to nowhere – but it’s too late to exit

For one mid-career academic scientist, precarity is becoming unbearable. But they are too experienced for entry-level industry jobs and not experienced enough for senior ones. They’ve stayed too long,...

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#InternationalDawnChorusDay in our garden at 5.30am. A wonderful moment just to be still and listen.

WHO’s emergencies director, Mike Ryan, sounds the alarm on Israel’s ongoing genocide operation in Gaza. Netanyahu has turned the strip into an open air concentration camp and is deliberately starving civilians.

Had a wonderful day at the third @beranews.bsky.social Presidential Seminar on anti-racism and education yesterday in Cardiff. Wales's commitments to being both an antiracist nation and a nation of sanctuary are fantastic, especially from the vantage point of NI. (1/2)

How have the education system and the curriculum responded to a more ethnically and culturally diverse Northern Ireland? Our analysis just published in Irish Educational Studies tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @erikafjimenez.bsky.social @aislingoboyle.bsky.social

The educational response to ethnic and cultural diversity in transitional Northern Ireland: a critical review of policy and research

Ethnic diversity has increased substantially in Northern Ireland’s schools over the past two decades, with statistics showing that the number of minority ethnic pupils doubled between 2013 and 2023...

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This is shocking, an egregious overreach by #MetPolice. Westminster #Quaker Meeting House is a place of peace, of worship & community. To be invaded so aggressively is a violation of the space AND of the right to freely assemble. #HomeSecretary & #PoliceCommissioner must respond. @quaker.org.uk

Quakers in Britain@quaker.org.uk · last yr.

🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨 This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️ 👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

We are looking to speak to parents of P7 pupils in Newry and North Belfast for our research on post-primary transfer. Please share! If you're interested in participating, please let us know here: forms.office.com/e/9QeTwDryqJ

A shameful story about immigrant business people’s experiences in Belfast, from the paramilitary protection racket to council inaction after racist riots www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Belfast race riots aftermath: ‘We have received nothing from the council, the government or our insurance company’

Immigrants whose businesses were destroyed or damaged in August’s violence say the only help they have got came from the public

irishtimes.com

Join us in Leeds for the BERA Presidential Seminar Series: The Struggle for Curriculum Knowledge and Culture: What’s next for England? @drmoncrieffe.bsky.social 🗓️ 25 Feb 2025 📍Leeds Beckett University Find out more and register: bera.ac.uk/event/presid...

Book Launch for "The Racialized Nature of Academic Language" edited by Dr Sultan Turkan and @jlschissel.bsky.social See the full list of speakers and how to register online here🤩: mcgill.ca/plurilingual... And if you are in Belfast (NI), join us in person! Image

Book Launch: The Racialized Nature of Academic Language

You're kindly invited to our next virtual Plurilingual Lab Speaker Series event with the book launch of: The Racialized Nature of Academic Language: Disentangling the Raciolinguistics Power Structures...

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The government has made reducing child poverty one of its key policy objectives. 📈 Our interactive tool allows you to compare policies for reducing child poverty, and see how child poverty rates have changed over time: https://ifs.org.uk/calculators/how-reduce-child-poverty-compare-policy-options

Glad to be able to brief the NI Assembly Education Committee this afternoon on our research on experiences of education among minority ethnic groups in Northern Ireland. Thanks to the Committee for the opportunity and @nuffieldfoundation.org for the support for this research.

The news that arrest warrants have been issued by the ICC against Israeli and Hamas leaders sends a clear signal: no party to this violence is above the law. We pray this will herald a desperately needed turning point for the region. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...