Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
COMMON TRANSFER TEST AGREED.. IN 3 YEARS TIME
New draft proposals put forward Ulster firm techs US market by storm
PLANS are underway for a common transfer test for grammar schools – but it could take three years.
Draft proposals have been put forward following negotiations involving the Post-primary Transfer Consortium and Association of Quality Education.
A consultation will take place with grammar school principals and boards of governors, however a common test is unlikely to be in operation for around three years.
AQE and PPTC told the BBC that “encouraging progress” had been made. They added: EVANGELINE Lilly had comic fans buzzing at the LA premiere of her new movie Ant-man And The Wasp.
She legged it, quite literally, to the event with co-stars Paul Rudd and Michelle Pfeiffer.
The film, in cinemas here on August 3, is the sequel to the first Ant-man movie about a hero who can shrink to the size of an insect.
Pfeiffer plays Janet van Dyne, the mother of Lilly’s Wasp heroine Hope van Dyne. AN Ulster tech firm has broken into the US market winning contracts worth more than £1million.
Belfast outfit i3 Digital said yesterday it “has firmly established a major strategic beach head” there.
These contracts have also created 10 jobs. Founder Adrian Bradley said: “We “Provisional agreements on the financial model which could support an assessment offering access to all grammar schools were presented by the negotiating teams in the last fortnight to the groups’ respective AGMS.” are in negotiations with four more major global organisations based in the US, to deliver a range of digital projects.
“It has taken time to establish ourselves in the US market but it’s starting to snowball. Our clients are brilliant to work with and our team love the scale and level of project that they are now working on.”