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  • £794m Major Capital Works Projects announced

    Date published: 21 March 2022

    Education Minister Michelle McIlveen has today made a statement to the Northern Ireland Assembly announcing 28 schools to advance in planning under the Major Capital Works Programme.

    The schools will benefit from an estimated capital investment of £794m.

    A copy of the Minister’s statement is available here: www.education-ni.gov.uk/publications/oral-statement-major-capital-works

    Notes to editors:

    1. The list of schools which will advance in planning from this announcement are:

    Ballyclare High School

    Ballyclare Secondary School

    Ballymena Academy

    Belfast High School

    Cambridge House, Ballymena

    Carrickfergus Academy

    Dean Maguirc College

    Dromore High School

    Edmund Rice, Newtownabbey

    Friends' School Lisburn

    Hunterhouse College, Belfast

    Killicomaine Junior High School

    Larne Grammar

    Larne High School

    Lisnagarvey High School, Lisburn

    Loreto College, Coleraine

    Lumen Christi College, Londonderry

    Malone Integrated College, Belfast

    Mercy College, Belfast

    Portadown College

    Sperrin Integrated College, Magherafelt

    St Brigid's College, Londonderry 

    St Catherine's College, Armagh 

    St Ciaran's College, Dungannon

    St Joseph's College, Belfast

    St Louise's Comprehensive College, Belfast

    St Paul's High School, Newry 

    St Pius X College, Magherafelt.

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