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NSPCC launches campaign to stop parents from smacking toddlers.
One of the billboard posters appearing at 2,000 sites in England, Wales and Ulster "shows a little boy bullying a schoolmate," says The Sun. "Its caption reads: Unfortunately, hitting your children does teach them a lesson." But in The Scotsman, The Christian Institute warns that the legal ban on smacking north of the border "would soak up vital police resources on trivial cases"
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One in four NI adults 'illiterate'.
Northern Ireland's minister for higher education says almost a quarter of adults in the province face problems with reading or writing
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Northern Ireland churchman and politician, brands line dancing 'sinful'.
The DUP leader and moderator of the Free Presbyterian Church, Ian Paisley, condemns line dancing as "sinful"
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Human rights concerns over 11+.
The Northern Ireland schools transfer system has come under fire in a report which says it could be in breach of international human rights standards. The study, published by the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, also warns that schools may be breaking the law. Some secondary and grammar schools use interviews or children's sporting records in their selection process
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Cross-Border links that face differences.
Andy Pollak on the role schools can play if they're open about what divides Ireland. The last two years have been a veritable rollercoaster of hope and despair for those who believe that implementing the Belfast Agreement is the last chance this generation will have to start to overcome the violence and mistrust which have poisoned relationships in Ireland for so long
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