COULTER PRAISES SCHOOLS’ STORMONT PROJECTS
Rev Dr Robert Coulter, the Ulster Unionist Party Assembly member for North Antrim and UUP Stormont Commissioner, has praised the number of schools from Northern Ireland, the Republic and Europe which had participated in the Assembly education programme.
Dr Coulter made his remarks during questions to the Commission at Parliament Buildings.
He said of the 125 schools which took part in the education programme, the vast majority – 112 – were from Northern Ireland. The time period was from the restoration of devolution in May 2007 until the present month.
Of the Northern Ireland schools, in terms of numbers, North Antrim represented the third highest with eight schools, or 7.14%.
The neighbouring constituency of East Antrim had nine schools or 8.04%, while South Antrim had one school at 0.89%, and was joint lowest with Strangford. The highest was Newry and Armagh with 20 schools, or 17.86%.
Dr Coulter added: “Several youth groups, further and higher education groups and adult learning groups have also participated in the programme, raising the number of participating groups to 218.
“The education programme of the Assembly has been one of the success stories since we started operation in May 2007,” said Assemblyman Dr Coulter.