'More help for poorer estate teens' EDUCATION.ALMOST 80 per cent of teenage boys from impoverished Protestant estates leave school without adequate grades, the Education Minister revealed yesterday. Catriona Ruane said those failing to obtain at least five GCSE GCSE 1. (in Britain) General Certificate of Secondary Education; an examination in specified subjects which replaced the GCE O level and CSE 2. Informal a pass in a GCSE examination Noun 1. C grades in deprived unionist areas is significantly higher than the 64 per cent rate in disadvantaged Catholic estates. The Sinn Fein Sinn Fein n. An Irish political and cultural society founded about 1905 to promote political and economic independence from England, unification of Ireland, and a renewal of Irish culture. minister added: "What we have to do is raise the aspirations of young people because at present in many of our working-class communities we have a poverty of aspiration aspiration /as·pi·ra·tion/ (as?pi-ra´shun) 1. the drawing of a foreign substance, such as the gastric contents, into the respiratory tract during inhalation. 2. and that is presenting real problems. "Through a consistent approach we can make sure no child gets left behind and every young person, regardless of social background, race or gender, has equal opportunity to succeed." |
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