copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2023-03-27): The number of undergraduate students from Northern Ireland at local universities is capped and depends on the amount of funding DfE makes available. [...] A higher proportion of 18 year olds from Northern Ireland go to university than any other part of the UK. [...] There are expected to be about 14,500 18-year-old students from Northern Ireland entering higher education in 2030, according to the "most likely" scenario forecast by UCAS.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2013-02-01): Almost a third (31%) who applied to Scottish universities — a rise of 17.3% — seem undeterred by a move by the Scottish Government to close the Irish passport loophole exploited by some Northern Ireland students to avoid paying fees at Scottish universities. [...] Ucas estimates that almost half of all Northern Ireland 18-year-olds (48%) have applied to enter higher education this year, and this compares with the much lower figures of approximately 35% in England and 30% in Scotland and in Wales. [...] The financial advantages for those who graduate may be less secure than in the past, yet the demand for higher education from Northern Ireland young people whether to study at home, or elsewhere in the UK, remains strong.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2020-10-12): Internationally, a long tail of underachievement belies Northern Ireland’s reputation for producing academically high-achieving pupils, indicating a country level problem requiring a Northern Ireland-specific focus. [...] A wide ranging study investigating the links between deprivation and education attainment in Northern Ireland found that young people from areas of high deprivation suffer low self-esteem and lack aspiration as a result of negative community attitudes around education. Parental early experiences of educational failure were also associated with children’s fear of failure, low expectations and negative attitudes to schooling. [...] _______________________ [1] Burns, S., Leitch, R., Hughes, J. (2015) Education Inequalities in Northern Ireland Belfast: Queen’s University Belfast, Harland, K., McCready, S. (2012) Taking Boys Seriously – A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Male School-Life Experiences in Northern Ireland Bangor: DE and OECD (2015) The ABC of Gender Equality in Education Paris: OECD Publishing
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2017-12-11): Over a third of Northern Ireland students successful in gaining university place Northern Ireland has one of the highest university entry rates in the UK, new figures from Ucas have revealed. [...] Many students in Northern Ireland also apply to study at universities in the Republic of Ireland via the Irish Central Applications Office (CAO).
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2022-04-27): Young people in the Republic have higher levels of educational attainment compared to Northern Ireland, according to a new cross-Border study by the ESRI. [...] The overall proportion of graduates is similar in both jurisdictions. However, Northern Ireland has a much smaller proportion who complete further education and training courses (10 per cent) compared to the Republic (30 per cent).
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2018-02-15): Third of NI students leave for universities elsewhere - Published Over a third of students from Northern Ireland began their degree at a university elsewhere in the UK last year. [...] Previous figures have shown that fewer than a third return home to work after graduation.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2018-08-31): Northern Ireland graduates: Only a third return home - Published - comments Only a third of students from Northern Ireland who graduated in England, Scotland or Wales in 2017 returned home to work. [...] Only 34% of those who had graduated from universities elsewhere in the UK in that year returned to Northern Ireland to work.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2022-02-20): It has forced Northern Ireland to face a daunting economic task: how to stop so many students and qualified graduates from leaving and never coming back. The problem is concerning for the future, with no signs of slowing. It continues to stunt growth in the economy with fewer people able to take on high-skill jobs in the region. Sometimes called the "brain drain", senior economist at Ulster University’s business school Dr Esmond Birnie says the problem is best explained as the "net out migration" of graduates and professionals. [...] Wanting to live in a more diverse area is one thing that pushes young people away from Northern Ireland and pulls them to other university hubs, Harper’s study of around 300 graduates found. But he acknowledges that the causes of the brain drain are "multi-factored", pointing to graduate employment opportunities, the social life and – most importantly, he says – the lack of community relations between Protestant and Catholic communities, the former generally being unionist and the latter nationalist. [...] Belfast has a booming tech and IT industry after all. But it may not be enough to attract students and graduates like Abby, Cara and James back. Harper’s study found that 88 per cent of graduates from Northern Ireland have no plans to return.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2021-12-06): Independent think tank Pivotal surveyed more than 300 current university students who left Northern Ireland for their studies. Some 73% said attending a university outside Northern Ireland was their first preference in application forms for higher education. [...] Just 12% said they had plans to return after graduation. Their main reasons for staying away were community relations and economic opportunities.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Our previous report explored existing research about why young people choose to leave Northern Ireland and not return. [...] 1. Students clearly said that poor community relations in Northern Ireland were a reason to leave and not return. People who had chosen to live and work outside Northern Ireland after graduation agreed that this was a strong motivation to remain away. [...] 4. Students were strongly motivated by the close connections between university courses outside Northern Ireland and high quality undergraduate placements, along with the greater range of graduate jobs, higher salaries and opportunities for progression available elsewhere.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2016-05-30): 'More than a third of students leave Northern Ireland at 18; we cannot afford to lose such talent - but they'll only return if there are opportunities' [...] Northern Ireland, as a result of that, lost 2,250 student places - that's over 10% of the total undergraduate student places. Some 38% of students have to leave Northern Ireland at the age of 18, that's a really serious situation for any society because, in particular, your most talented people are leaving. You do want people to leave and come back - people only come back to where opportunities sit. [...] Stay up to date with some of Northern Ireland's biggest stories
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2022-07-14): In 2022, 12,070 18-year-olds in Northern Ireland have applied to go to university - up from 11,670 in 2021 and 10,720 in 2020. [...] According to UCAS, almost two-thirds of 18-year-old women in Northern Ireland (63%) have applied to start undergraduate degrees in 2022. [...] Overall, 18,430 students from Northern Ireland applied to go to university through UCAS by 30 June, a fall from 19,390 in 2021.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2022-03-24): The DfE figures also show 16,620 students from Northern Ireland were in higher education in England, Scotland or Wales in 2020/21. [...] Previous statistics from DfE have shown that two-thirds of Northern Irish full-time students who studied elsewhere in the UK did not return home to work after graduating. [...] Three-quarters of 66,000 university students in Northern Ireland are from Northern Ireland.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2022-02-27): The claim that "a third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland" is closer to a quarter. On 11 March 2018, Brian Smyth claimed that "…a third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside NI, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home." [...] We found that Brian Smyth’s claim that "…a third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home" was generally factually accurate. The Department of Economy statistics suggest that the figure for those leaving Northern Ireland for Great Britain institutions is closer to 26.9%; it is closer to a third for those enrolled full-time. After graduation, the Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey indicates that 33.1% of Northern Irish students returned home to work.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2023-12-01): Clare Stevens (née Diamond), MA 1979, shares her experience of coming to St Andrews during the height of the Troubles. She recalls the contrast of the safe, quaint cobbled streets with the "strife-torn province" of home. [...] So, it was easy to immerse myself in student life and forget what was happening at home. Talking to my parents meant queueing to use the single telephone cubicle in the vestibule of Hamilton Hall, and conversations were usually full of gossip, not updates on the political situation or the latest atrocity. I can easily relate to my fellow Northern Irish St Andrean Martin Doyle’s recollection in his book Dirty Linen of how he only found out about a particularly horrific murder in his home village in South Down when one of his cousins travelled over to be his guest at a university ball and told him about it.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2020-04-06): If they didn’t pay it, they couldn’t work there. It still happens now, even in peacetime. The lower Newtownards Road, a Protestant area, was pocked with shuttered windows, the remnants of small businesses that couldn’t afford the regular payout to the Loyalists. [...] The second promise was prosperity. Peace, we were assured, would bring a thriving new economy. It never appeared. It didn’t matter what qualifications you had, the most plentiful work was to be found in call centres, answering or making calls for a minimum wage. They were egalitarian shitholes; middle-class kids with PhDs mixed with kids with no GCSEs, and they all earned the same for doing the same grunt work. If you were lucky, the job didn’t come with timed toilet breaks. In the end, most graduates ended up leaving. People who’d been searching for jobs for two years in Northern Ireland would find one within eight weeks in London. But it was like escaping from one trap only to walk into another; London offered jobs but it didn’t offer a life. Most people I knew out there were just scraping by, paying £650 a month for a bedroom in a grotty apartment. Eventually, they’d figure out you couldn’t buy a house for £100K in London the way you could in Belfast and would either return, settling for what work they could find and swapping career dreams for family life, or head farther afield. [...] Yet this turned out to be a lie, too.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2021-06-05): Do you wish you lived somewhere else? [...] Do you know why you love the destinations you visit on holiday more than you love your home town? It’s because of the way you experience them. [...] Do you love where you live? Have you ever acted like a "tourist in your own hometown"? Do you crave a life somewhere different? Share your thoughts in the comments with us.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2024-10-05): The last time I visited Northern Ireland was in 2019. Worldcon was in Dublin that year, and a week later there was Titancon up in Belfast, a small regional that a number of the members of the Brotherhood Without Banners helped put on. There was no way we were going to miss that. So we hopped in a car and headed north, from Dublin to Belfast. [...] Here are a few more glimpses, the pix we shot ourselves. [...] It’s the next best thing to visiting Westeros.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2024-01-01): While reviewing and getting to know the students through their application, the following six qualities are always taken into consideration: [...] In collaboration with The Fund for Education Abroad (FEA), Education Ireland is pleased to offer this scholarship in support of students choosing to study abroad in Ireland. [...] Students who have studied abroad at University College Dublin and wish to return for graduate studies are eligible for this scholarship.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2024-09-26): - ^ Figures are for Great Britain only, i.e. excludes Northern Ireland [...] - ^ 2011: England and Wales,[47] Scotland,[48] and Northern Ireland[49] [...] - ^ 2001: England and Wales,[51] Scotland,[52] and Northern Ireland[53]
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2003-01-01): Historical Background Office of the Historian Bureau of Public Affairs [...] IRA Bombing, Banbridge, August 1, 1998: A 500-pound car bomb planted by the Real IRA exploded outside a shoe store in Banbridge, North Ireland, injuring 35 persons and damaging at least 200 homes. [...] Email this Page |
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2020-03-19): Stay at home orders for England and Scotland 4 January 2021 [...] Students travelling home for Christmas 11 November 2020 Minister for Education, Kirsty Williams, announces that two main measures have been agreed to enable the university sector to manage the movement of students at the end of term as safely as possible. Firstly, universities will conclude the majority of in-person teaching in the week leading up to 8 December 2020. Students who are planning to travel are encouraged to make arrangements to move from term time accommodation by 9 December at the latest. Secondly, students who wish to return home at the end of term will be asked to follow a simple set of guidelines. This will mean every student must make responsible choices to protect other people, including the option to take an asymptomatic lateral flow test.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2024-09-27): The Northern Ireland football league system includes the NIFL Premiership, often known colloquially as the "Irish League". One Northern Irish club, Derry City, plays its football outside of the United Kingdom in the Republic of Ireland football league system. Windsor Park, Linfield F.C.'s 20,332-seater stadium, is also the home stadium of the national team. [...] Sport Northern Ireland is the leading public body for the development of sport in Northern Ireland. We distribute funds on behalf of the Exchequer and on behalf of The National Lottery. [...] - ^ "Tracking the Field" (PDF). Ipsos MORI. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2008. Retrieved 17 October 2008.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2024-01-09): July 30th, 2020 - UK imposes local lockdown on a number of areas in the North of England. [...] August 14th, 2020 - Lockdowns in the North West of England extended - Data shows 1 in 4 young people in the US have experienced suicidal thoughts during the pandemic. [...] - Scotland announces travel ban with the rest of the UK.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2023-11-20): New enrolments of EU students fell by 53% after post-Brexit rules took effect [...] For more information on international students in the UK, see the Migration Observatory’s briefing on Student migration to the UK. [...] - Office for National Statistics (2021). Quality assurance of Census 2021.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2022-02-08): Mary Anne Kirkpatrick Graham [...] Anyway, I am so happy we are going to see those of you who are "coming back" … I haven’t aged at all – I’m sure you have not either. [...] My experiences with college and personal tours, international college activities, and travel abroad have taken me to Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, Austria, Belgium, Holland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine, Poland, Canada and Mexico. I also have developed, planned and led over a dozen private group trips to Ireland and Northern Ireland over the last 20 years with Pat’s help.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2023-01-01): These applications will have to be made before the date stamped on your passport. If you have a critical skills employment permit you can apply for a visa for your family at the same time as you are making your application. With any other employment permit, your family must wait 12 months before they can apply. You can not leave Ireland and travel to Northern Ireland & United Kingdom using your Irish visa. You must have a Re-entry visa. [...] Explore Adare Village along the Wild Atlantic Way. Take a journey through this once troubled city. See the murals of the Loyalist Shankill Road & Nationalist Falls Road. The Troubles took their toll on the economic life of Belfast, but the past ten years of peace have returned much prosperity while the genuine friendliness of the city never left.
Claim: A third of young people from Northern Ireland who go to university travel outside Northern Ireland, mainly to the North West of England and Scotland, and only a third of those who graduate return back home. (Brian Smyth, 2018-03-11)
Evidence (2022-07-29): Further details can be found on the Scottish Government and Welsh Government websites. [...] Please see the following links for further information about school admissions arrangements in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. [...] Updated to include further information on sponsorship in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Updated to indicate that further guidance on how the scheme will allow access for children who are not travelling with or to join a parent, will be published in due course.