Publications

ApprenticeshipsNI fact sheet based on data extracted from the Department’s Trainee and Apprenticeship Management System (TAMS) on 2 March 2024.

This circular provides guidance and funding arrangements for the Skills Focus Programme covering the period from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.

This circular provides guidance and funding arrangements for the InnovateUs Programme, covering the period from 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2025.

This circular provides guidance for GCSE and Essential Skills qualifications on entry to further education.

This circular updates the list of possible responses that should be used by each college when information regarding equality data is being requested from the individual attending the college.

This circular revises the process for data entry and claims for the Step Up Project. Step Up is funded through the New Deal for Northern Ireland funding package and managed by the Department for the Economy.

This circular sets out terms and conditions for the payment of the Hardship Fund (Discretionary) from 1 August 2023 and supersedes previous guidance.

This circular provides information and guidance on further education (FE) grants and supersedes FE Circular 08/22.

This circular sets out the requirements for FE colleges to prepare their 2022/23 annual report and financial statements.

Guidance for FE colleges on timetabling requirements.

This circular provides guidance relating to the different options available in the Learner Support Funding Indicator field and the eligibility criteria. It also updates circular FE06/17 in relation to Free School Meals.

Previous guidance (issued 7 January 2016) provided the definitions for the options within the fee waiver code field to collect information on whether an individual identifies themselves as in receipt of income support.

This circular provides guidance and funding arrangements for the Skills Focus Programme, delivered as part of the Department’s Employer Support provision, covering the period from 01 April 2023 to 31 March 2024.

This circular provides guidance and funding arrangements for the InnovateUs programme, covering the period from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024. It replaces FE Circular 03/22.

The circular contains operational requirements for the management, provision, coordination, teaching and delivery of Essential Skills qualifications. These requirements are intended for all providers other than schools.

This memo is intended to provide guidance on the eligibility, recording, period of support, recording and verification of prisoner’s enrolled on projects funded under priority 1 and 2 of the NI ESF programme.

The Level 2 Traineeship Programme commenced in September 2021. The purpose of this document is to ensure that data on participants on Level 2 Traineeships are being correctly and consistently recorded in all colleges.

The purpose of this document is to ensure that data is recorded consistently in all colleges for participants on Training for Success (TfS) and Apprenticeships NI (APP-NI).

This circular sets out the arrangements for the eligibility requirements for access to English Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) in further education (FE) colleges for asylum seekers, refugees, those granted Humanitarian Protection, persons granted Indefinite leave to remain

This circular sets out the requirements for FE colleges to prepare their 2021/22 Annual Report and Financial Statements and supersedes FE Circular 05/21.