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Pay back for 30 years !
9% of portion of salary above £ 27 295 threshold (edit)

Going by news stories this week, English schools are broke as well with SEN  spending through the roof. Scotland the biggest spenders per pupil.

Funding in NI would need to increase by £500 per pupil for schools to balance their budgets.

The thing to remember is whether a school has a deficit or not  , it's not going to close anytime soon !

Wage cuts?

They'll be queuing up for that opportunity ...their about to get pay parity with UK ..so I'm sure it'll happen

Apprenticeships definitely getting better profile but are you tied to that 'sponsor'for a contracted period of time.

Going by news stories this week, English schools are broke as well with SEN  spending through the roof. Scotland the biggest spenders per pupil.

Funding in NI would need to increase by £500 per pupil for schools to balance their budgets.

The thing to remember is whether a school has a deficit or not  , it's not going to close anytime soon !

Onto child number 3 at University now , on reflection, it would've made some sense to invest in a property to off set rental costs.These have ranged from £250 a month in 2014, to £450 in 2018 to £600 a month in Glasgow, in 23/24.
Accommodation options in Belfast have really accerlated in cost too with liadz of purpose built facilities being developed in city centre.

https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/income-assessment-full-time-students


Maintenance Loan was increased for students living away from home in 23/24.
The maximum is around £6776,  excluding London allowance and Maintence grant which is tapered to parental income. This grant is not repaid !

One example
Two Belfast schools that are two miles from each other; The schools have approx same number of pupils / classes  and teachers.One school with significantly higher Free School Meals entitlement, it receives £100 000 more in its budget allocation than the other school.

Folks ...Petrol VW T Roc has exhaust system fault , filter must be clogged.
Car does low speed /low mileage. Drove the shit out of it on M1 but still the warning light is on ?

Any advice , thanks

Magee Campus field in the third tier of HE GAA. Ulster Uni is Jordanstown / Belfast campus . Not sure if Coleraine have a team

perhaps there is something i am not seeing here (and i will hold my hands up if that is the case) but filling the Division 1 league with teams that are clearly nowhere near that level doesn't sound like something that will improve all round quality.   There were already 1 or 2 struggling last year (and were relegated). The only chance these teams have is to gain some points when the top teams send their reserve teams down at the start of the season. Those poorer teams may marginally improve as a result but the quality of the league as a whole declines. 

As i say, happy to be wrong. Just would like to know the proper thinking on this and why they see this as benefitting Division 1 and Antrim football.   

In two years time it will go Div1A (8 teams), 1B (8 teams), Div 2 (10), Div 3 (8/10)

J Brady pushing to get Ballymena into div 1 but enters intermediate championship,sweet mother off fazan,what's the point

They are in IFC because Dunloy are in SFC

Was there any word on the championship structure from the meeting the other night? (Assuming it went ahead)

Two options will be discussed on Mon 29th
1. Stay as we are
2. Div 1 x 16; Div 2 x 10 teams; Div3 x 8

1 team relegated from league ; 1 from championship via playoffs

The 1A and 1B arguments make no sense.

1A is division 1 by another name, but the proposal that I saw had the lowest 4 teams in 1A and 1B form 1B the following year.

So if 1A are the teams ranked 1-8 in the county and 1B are teams ranked 9-16, in 2025 that means we'll have 1-4 and 9-12 in the same division and 5-8 and 12-16 in the same.



It's ludicrous.

And div 2 is 10 teams but still has a split? It's completely pointless.

And sure we'll arbitrarily move either Dunloy up to senior and Ballymena down because might as well commit to the poorly thought out idea

Agree with those points entirely!
The proposal you talk of was an option , not the best one at all.
A few clubs took the hump that they'd be in 1B ....so we have a proposed 16 team Div 1. Div 2 spilt  + championship games equals a maximum of 20 game season for football only clubs

I believe the plan was to have Div 1A of 8 and 1B of 8. Dunloy playing in SFC & Div 3 football put a spanner in the plan.

Working group proposals are basically what the Convention motions proposed
DIV 1 - 16 team; Div 2 - 10; Div 3- 9

League Winners Div 2 & 3 promoted
IFC & JFC winners promoted.

Relegation
Option 1  2 teams relegated via championship
Option 2
1 team via championship & 1 via League
Starting 2024