Northern Ireland Essays

https://www.dropbox.com/s/robvc4w977zfzu0/welfare%20state.docx?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4c61m859u4u0vhp/What%20were%20the%20achievements%20and%20failures%20of%20Terence.doc?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xi5fc5eq2ioaiop/Emergence-of-Northern-Ireland-Civil-Rights-Movement.doc?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9egg7pdac1ks4px/Why%20did%20the%20Civil%20Rights%20Movement%20in%20Northern%20Irel.doc?dl=0

Coleraine Controversy

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YERzDF8ToGSHy0X6EXs0AFCYYpvtRIel/view?usp=sharing

Read the the above powerpoint and notes below and then, using the plan from the board and your own book aswell, write the following essay: Why was the choice of Coleraine as the site for Northern Ireland’s second university controversial?

Intro: Queen’s University on University. Catholics and Protestants mix freely. The number of Catholic students was on the rise and by the early 60’s was a quarter of all students. Magee college, small, in Derry. You could only do the first 2 years of a degree before finishing the final year at Queen’s or Trinity. As a result of the welfare state and the growing numbers attending secondary schools, esp grammar schools their was a perceived need to provide more third level places to meet demand. The GOvernment had to choose between expanding Queen’s or Magee or establishing a completely new university in the province. The decision to found a new university was to lead to a bitter public controversy during 1965.

P1 The Lockwood Committee

In 1963 the Robbins Report on Higher Education in GB Recommended a huge expansion in the number of places in third-level education, especially in the area of science and technology. The expert authors believed that future economic prosperity depended on a better educated workforce. They also believed that clever working-class students should receive more encouragement to go on to third-level education. The same was proposed in the republic as witnessed by the highly influential report entitled Investment in Education, which was published in 1965. Against this backdrop the NI Government set up its own inquiry on third-level education. In November 1963 a committee was appointed under the Chairmanship of Sir John Lockwood, the Master of Birkbeck College in London. The 8 member committee included education experts from the north and GB. However, not a single representative from the Catholic and nationalist community in NI was included. From the outset it was clear that the location of the new university woud be of great interest to the general public. There towns in particular were considered to be leading contenders: Derry, Armagh and Coleraine.

P2. Derry city council proposals

As the second largest city in NI, with a population of 54,000, Derry appeared to be in a strong position. Even before the Lockwood Committee was appointed, the city council set out its findings.