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  • Essential Skills Enrolments and Outcomes in Northern Ireland from 2017/18 to 2021/22

    Topics:
    • Statistics and economic research, 
    • Essential Skills statistics and research

    Date published: 31 January 2023

    Last updated: 9 September 2025

    The Essential Skills Enrolments and Outcomes in Northern Ireland from 2017/18 to 2021/22 bulletin presents a range of analysis regarding the numbers and characteristics of those enrolling and qualifying in Essential Skills. Previous editions of this publication have analysed the Essential Skills strategy since it began in 2002/03, following user engagement the scope of this publication has been narrowed to the most recent five academic years.
    This is the final published bulletin that included courses provided in both FE Colleges and external providers. Subsequent publications are limited to

    Documents

    • Essential Skills Enrolments and Outcomes in Northern Ireland from 2017-18 to 2021-22Adobe PDF (492.42 KB)
    • Essential Skills Enrolments and Outcomes in Northern Ireland from 2017-18 to 2021-22 - infographicAdobe PDF (159.77 KB)
    • Essential Skills Enrolments and Outcomes in Northern Ireland from 2017-18 to 2021-22 - Excel tablesMicrosoft Excel (91.83 KB)
    • Essential Skills Enrolments and Outcomes in Northern Ireland from 2017-18 to 2021-22 - OpenDocument tablesOpenDocument spreadsheet (35.45 KB)
    • Essential Skills Enrolments and Outcomes in Northern Ireland from 2017-18 to 2021-22 - pre-release access listAdobe PDF (17.52 KB)
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