Review of Pre-School Education in Northern Ireland

Department of Education JUNE, 2004 / B. Gardiner. - Nothern Ireland, 2004- 50 p. In 1998, the Pre-School Education Expansion Programme was launched in Northern Ireland. Recognising the benefits of pre-school both for the individual and society as a whole, the Government set a hallenging target of providing a year of quality pre-school education for all children in their pre-school year. The given rewiew contains the data concerning benefits of pre-school education, history of the Pre-School Education Expansion Programme, structural and organisational issues, etc.