they wouldn’t fit 30 students into the classroom.” Fergal McGuckin, another teacher, told the

Teachers have voted for the Government to set maximum limits on class sizes, as most say the issue is having a negative impact on their pupils’ progress.A survey by the NASUWT teaching union, ahead of its annual conference in Birmingham, found that three-quarters of teachers said their class sizes were increasing, with most teachers reporting that this was having a negative impact on pupils’ progress and behaviour.In a survey of more than 3, 000 teachers, 37% said their class sizes had increased

We let you down, we failed in our duty of care.... We now want to apologise to you’.... Maybe that would take a little of the shame, pain and blame from his shoulders and place it on those who carried out these vile atrocities on an innocent child, and the religious orders and the state who allowed it to happen on their watch, unchallenged.”....

Stormont ministers have delivered a long-awaited apology to victims of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland – telling them they are sorry they were not believed and not protected. However, while victims welcomed the statements from ministers, a number walked out of the Stormont Assembly chamber in protest while apologies were being delivered on behalf of the institutions that ran facilities where abuse took placeAround 80 survivors sat in the Assembly chamber, in seats usually rese