The chair of Stormont’s Education Committee has said the Education Minister has failed thousands of primary school children as they prepare to sit the first transfer test on Saturday. The first of three AQE exams papers will be sat by around 8,000 P7 pupils on Saturday, despite calls for the tests to be postponed or cancelled as schools move to remote learning as the number of Covid cases in the community continues to soar. Read More Pupils hoping to attend grammar schools in Northern Ireland will sit two further AQE papers on January 16 and January 23, while transfer tests run by the Post Primary Transfer Consortium (PPTC) are due to take place on January 30.