Training Providers

Further Education Colleges

The colleges play an important role in helping people build skills and continue learning throughout their lives. They support local communities, help close skills gaps, and work closely with employers to understand what skills are needed. This helps them offer courses and qualifications that support jobs and economic growth.

They also help create a strong and successful economy by developing technical and professional skills, including higher-level skills, and by supporting innovation. Colleges aim to include everyone by helping people with few or no qualifications, or those facing barriers, gain the skills and confidence they need to find work and take part in the economy.

All six NI colleges offer green-related courses -

Green related courses - Belfast Met

All courses - Northern Regional College

Green related courses - North West Regional College

Green related courses - SERC

All courses - Southern Regional College

All courses - South West College

*There might be other courses run by the colleges which are linked to Green Skills

Northern Ireland Universities

The universities offer Green-related undergraduate and postgraduate courses across engineering, law, science and more.

Higher Education is delivered by the three universities and two university colleges. They deliver a range of courses that fit well with the green sector, but there is scope to expand and improve these courses, so they keep up with new technology and the changing expectations placed on graduates. 

Green related courses - The Open University

All courses - Queen's University Belfast

Green related courses - Ulster University

*There might be other courses available which are linked to Green Skills

College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE)

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) offers a range of Further and Higher Education courses through CAFRE. These courses help you start a career in areas like farming, food production, and rural businesses. If you already work in the industry, CAFRE can help you build your skills, develop your career, and stay up to date with new ideas and ways of working.

CAFRE has excellent practical facilities where you can learn by practicing and testing out new technologies and systems. Training takes place across three campuses in Antrim (Greenmount), Cookstown (Loughry), and Enniskillen. These locations support a wide range of subjects, including agriculture, food, equine, and horticulture.

There are many factors affecting this industry which are influenced by decisions made elsewhere in the world. CAFRE offer students travel opportunities through their international programme, allowing students to share information globally, and bring new systems and technologies back to support local industry.

College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise - CAFRE