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Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)

Education Maintenance AllowanceIf you decide to stay on at school or go to college from September 2006, you may be able to get Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA).  Full details are available on the Education Maintenance Allowance page on Department of Employment and Learning website.

Educational information service

  • Looking for a list of schools near you?
  • Where is my nearest youth group?
  • Where are the Further Education sites?

Use our Education and youth organisations list to find these and many other places.

Useful links

Below are links to the bodies that the Department of Education works closely with.  All these links will open in a new window.

Belfast Education and Library Board
North Eastern Education and Library Board
South Eastern Education and Library Board
Southern Education and Library Board
Western Education and Library Board

The Council for Catholic Maintained Schools
The Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessments
The Staff Commission for the Education and Library Boards
The Youth Council for Northern Ireland

Comhairle na Gaelscolaíochta
The General Teaching Council for Northern Ireland (GTC)
The Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education (NICIE)

For a wider range of educational related organisations visit our links page using the button on the blue bar above.

Publications

Below are links to two issues of a Department of Education newsletter, Headlines. This newsletter is geared towards principals, teachers, support staff and parents and aims to keep you up to date with the latest news and information affecting the education sector.

Headlines - Issue 2 PDF 2.6MB - English

Headlines - Issue 2 PDF 875KB - Irish

Headlines - Issue 1 PDF 414 KB - English

Headlines - Issue 1 PDF 412 KB - Irish
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School holidays

Your childs school can be closed throughout the year for a number of reasons:

You can get detailed information by visting these pages.