Here the Centre for Cross Border Studies provided its contribution to the Department for Employment and Learning’s Higher Education ‘Big Conversation’. Click here to access the full CCBS response.
Read MoreConsultation Responses
Response to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform’s consultation on the Mid-Term Self-Assessment Report on Ireland’s Open Government Partnership National Action Plan 2014-2016
This response has been prepared by The Centre for Cross Border Studies as a contribution to the consultation on the Mid-term Self-Assessment Report on Ireland’s Open Government Partnership National Action Plan 2014-2016 produced by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The Centre for Cross Border Studies must record its disappointment at the insufficient period determined […]
Read MoreResponse to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform’s Draft Consultation Principles/Guidance
This response has been prepared by The Centre for Cross Border Studies as a contribution to the consultation on the Draft Consultation Principles/Guidance, produced by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. The Centre for Cross Border Studies broadly welcomes the principles and guidance proposed and the outcomes they set out to achieve in terms of […]
Read MoreCCBS Submits Evidence to the House of Lords EU Select Committee Inquiry on ‘Visions of EU Reform’
The Centre for Cross Border Studies has today submitted evidence to the House of Lords EU Select Committee Inquiry on EU reform. The inquiry is exploring the vision for the future of the EU that the UK Government is seeking to realise through its current reform proposals, ahead of the referendum on UK membership to […]
Read MoreResponse to DEL’s New Further Education Strategy for Northern Ireland
The Centre for Cross Border Studies responded to the Department for Employment and Learning’s New Further Education Strategy for Northern Ireland. Click here to access the full written response.
Read MoreCCBS informs the ‘Review of the Balance of Competences between the UK and the EU’ on Cohesion Policy
On 12 July 2012 the UK’s Coalition Government committed itself to audit the balance of the EU’s competences, whether exclusive, shared or supporting, in order to assess how these affect the UK’s national interest. The primary result of this commitment was an unprecedented exercise which offers the most comprehensive assessment to date of the EU, […]
Read MoreCCBS Responds to Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland’s consultation on its ‘Child Protection and Safeguarding Learning & Development Strategy’
This response has been prepared by the Centre for Cross Border Studies (CCBS) as a contribution to the consultation on the Child Protection and Safeguarding Learning and Development Strategy, produced by the Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland. To access the full written response click here.
Read MoreSubmission on the All Island Economy to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
In addressing the theme of the All Island Economy, the Centre for Cross Border Studies is informed by its core mission of supporting and promoting cross-border cooperation on the island of Ireland as a means towards greater social and territorial cohesion. Greater cohesion will reduce socio-economic disparities between regions of the island – North and South – particularly […]
Read MoreCCBS Response to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Public Consultation on Policy Proposals for a Rural Proofing Bill
The Centre for Cross Border Studies (CCBS) is supportive of the need for change in line with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development’s aspirations (as outlined at Para 4.8). We strongly endorse the decision taken on behalf of the Department to put rural proofing on a statutory footing. Moreover, CCBS considers this proposed legislation […]
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