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  • Essential Skills Enrolments and Outcomes

    Topics:
    • Employment and skills programmes (including apprenticeships), 
    • Statistics and economic research, 
    • Higher and Further Education and training statistics, 
    • Essential Skills statistics and research

    These statistical publications have been produced by the department and present a range of analysis regarding the numbers and characteristics of those enrolling and qualifying in Essential Skills.

    • Essential Skills Enrolments and Outcomes in Northern Ireland Further Education Colleges: 2019/20 to 2023/24
    • Essential Skills Enrolments and Outcomes in Northern Ireland Further Education Colleges: 2018/19 to 2022/23
    • New rounding and suppression approach (further education and essential skills)

    Readership survey

    An analysis of the Essential Skills statistics bulletin readership survey conducted in September 2019 is available:

    • Essential Skills statistics bulletin - readership survey

    Further information

    Further education (including Essential Skills) ad hoc tables are produced in response to user requests and contain combinations of data that are not available in standard publications.

    • Further Education ad hoc tables

    Quality report on Essential Skills Enrolments and Outcomes

    A report including information on different dimensions of quality (relevance, accuracy, timeliness and punctuality, accessibility and clarity, coherence and comparability) can be accessed below.

    • Quality report – Essential Skills Enrolments and Outcomes

    Related content

    • Careers and future intentions research
    • Degree apprenticeships in Law in Northern Ireland
    • Jobs with the Best Salary Prospects
    • Longitudinal Education Outcomes for Northern Ireland - a data linkage initiative
    • New rounding and suppression approach (further education and essential skills)
    • Northern Ireland Apprenticeship Awards 2024
    • Northern Ireland Apprenticeship Awards 2025
    • Northern Ireland Apprenticeship Week
    • Northern Ireland Apprenticeship Week 2026: Invest in Talent – Your Future Business
    • Participation rates
    • Previous Essential Skills Publications
    • Publications schedule, statements and consultations
    • Qualifications in Northern Ireland
    • Skills Initiative Branch
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