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Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA)

If 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 Intergrated Education (NICIE)

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

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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.