- Produce a roadmap for a single education system
- Increase investment in the foundation years
- Expand programmes to improve literacy
- Legislate to improve special educational needs provision
- Ensure no one is priced out of a university education.
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- Create an all-Ireland education system
- Cut back on bureaucracy and ensure that more resources are put into frontline services
- Build more new schools on the basis of area needs
- Increase the availability and resources of Irish language education
- Continue to support the Sinn Fein minister's decision to abolish academic selection for secondary education in NI
- Extend the entitlement to free school meals for children
- Oppose student tuition fees
- Support a new fees regime which helps older people to become involved in life-long learning
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- Continue to call for a reprioritisation of executive funds so the current cap on tuition fees can be retained
- Prioritise Early Years Intervention including making pre-school education a universal entitlement
- Continue to support academic selection; find a genuine, long-term resolution to the post primary transfer process
- Ensure continuous streaming as well as devolving more power and flexibility to head teachers to interpret the curriculum
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- Abolish academic selection for secondary education
- Better provision for nursery and primary school children
- Oppose any increase in university tuition fees
- Support the Irish medium sector to ensure that pupils and teachers have equality with those in other sectors
- Monitor implementation of the SDLP's Autism Act to ensure people with autism, have access to the services they require
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- Address segregation in education and deliver more shared and integrated schooling
- Create an Education and Skills Authority to improve governance in education and save money
- End academic selection at age 11
- Prevent large increases in university tuition fees
- Invest in early years and child care provision
- Provide independent careers advice to all young people
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- Oppose any rise in student fees and put forward proposals to scrap fees altogether
- Oppose academic selection. Take the onus off pure academic achievement and find a system where creativity and practical skills are credited as well
- Early years services should be universally available
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- Parental choice is most important
- Promote excellence in grammar and secondary schools through adequate funding
- Reject wasting resources on Irish language schools
- Freeze university tuition fees at current levels for Northern Ireland students
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Hart warning over foreign investors