Circulars for 2001 or earlier
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| 2001/21 | Qualifications of teachers in Nursery, Primary, secondary and Special schools (PDF 76 KB) This circular provides advice to relevant bodies when making appointments in physical education to teaching posts in secondary schools. |
| 2001/19 | Approval of Qualifications for Examination in Summer 2003 (PDF 13 KB) the approval of qualifications for which pupils of compulsory school age will be prepared in grant-aided schools from September 2001. |
| 2001/18 | Qualifications of teachers in institutions of Further and Higher education (PDF 27 KB) This circular provides guidance on the qualifications required to teach in institutions of further and higher education. |
| 2001/17a | SR 2001 No. 236 (PDF 8 KB) The Department of Education, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 17A and 134(1) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 [1] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations: |
| 2001/17 | Education (Pupil Records) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 (PDF 16 KB) informs schools about the changes relating to the right of access by pupils to information contained in their educational records. |
| 2001/15b | RSE Guidance for Post (PDF 225 KB) provides guidance to post-primary schools on the provision of Relationships and Sexuality Education. |
| 2001/15a | RSE Guidance for Primary Schools (PDF 185 KB) provides guidance to primary schools on the provision of Relationships and Sexuality Education. |
| 2001/15 | Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) PDF 26 KB (PDF 26 KB) provides guidance to schools on the provision of Relationships and Sexuality Education. |
| 2001/11 | Increases to Teachers' Pay and Allowances from 1 September 2000 and 1 April 2001 (PDF 13 KB) This circular sets out the teacher pay scales from September 2000 and April 2001. |
| 2001/04 | Qualified Teacher Status, Hairdressing (PDF 7 KB) This circular is concerned with the qualifications required to teach hairdressing in Institutions of Further and Higher Education. |
| 2001/02 | Qualifications of teachers in Nursery, Primary, Secondary and Special schools (PDF 9 KB) This circular updates the guidance contained in circular 1997/11 on the approved courses for teaching pupils with visual impairment. |
| 2000/04 | Salary Increases for Principals, Vice (PDF 16 KB) This circular sets out the teacher pay scales from April 2000, and clarifies the total points available for experience and qualifications at that time. |
| 2000/03 | Exceptional Closure Day (PDF 12 KB) sets out the arrangements for Secondary (including Grammar) schools which will have a sixth form in September 2000 to take an exceptional closure day in the 1999/00 school year to work on the implementation of the new post-16 qualifications framework. |
| 1999/30 | Teachers’ Premature Retirement Compensation Scheme (PDF 44 KB) This circular advises employers on the Teachers Premature Retirement Compensation Scheme. |
| 1999/25 | Policy for the Acceptable Use of the Internet in Schools (PDF 22 KB) The link below is to a circular that was issued in 1999 and provided guidelines on the acceptable use of the internet in schools |
| 1999/22 | Teachers' Pay Structure from 1 September 1999 (PDF 95 KB) This circular provides guidance on the changes to the teachers' pay structure from September 1999. It provides for new arrangements for Principals' pay and explains the assimilation process for existing principals, the determination of Individual School Ranges (ISRs) and the removal of points 0 and 0.5 from the teachers' pay scale. It also sets out the procedures for calculating the ISR for the principal group (see also Circular 2003/05). |
| 1999/19a | SR 1999 No. 245 (PDF 10 KB) The Department of Education, in exercise of the powers conferred onit by Articles 17A(1), (2) and (2A) and 134(1) of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986(a) and Article 31(2) and (3) of the Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989(b) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and after consulting as required by Article 31(4) of that Order, hereby makes the following Regulations: |
| 1999/19 | Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) (Information) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (PDF 11 KB) informs schools of the change in the final date by which schools must report Key Stage 3 assessment outcomes to parents. |
| 1999/17 | Parental Responsibility: Guidance for Schools (PDF 38 KB) This circular informs schools about the law on parental responsibility and provides advice on the action required by schools in respect of a person or persons who acquire parental responsibility for a pupil. |
| 1999/12 | Salary Increases for Principals, Vice (PDF 12 KB) This circular sets out the teacher pay scales from April 1999. |
| 1999/10 | Pastoral Care in Schools: Child Protection (PDF 27 KB) This circular is to advise schools of the publication of the Department of Education's guidance on child protection, 'Pastoral Care in Schools: Child Protection'. |
| 1999/09 | Pastoral Care: Guidance on the Use of Reasonable Force to Restrain or Control Pupils (PDF 186 KB) This circular provides clarification and guidance on the use of reasonable force, by teachers and other authorised staff to restrain or control pupils in certain circumstances. It gives guidance about who can use reasonable force, when it is appropriate to use it, and the procedures for recording incidents where reasonable force was used. The circular also advises that schools should have a written policy about the use of reasonable force which should be made known to parents. |
| 1999/06 | Obligation to Enter Pupils for Public Examinations (PDF 9 KB) informs schools of the requirement to enter pupils for public examinations for which they have been prepared, and explains the circumstances in which this requirement does not apply. |
| 1999/04 | Disclosure of Educational Records: Assessment Units (PDF 10 KB) explains the position of Assessment Units in relation to the requirements for the disclosure of educational records. |
| 1998/32 | The Teachers Superannuation Regulations (Northern Ireland) (PDF 14 KB) This circular introduces the Teachers' Superanuation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998. |
| 1998/29 | The Teachers Superannuation Scheme(Northern Ireland)Retirement on Health Grounds. (PDF 13 KB) This circular sets out modified arrangements for the processing of ill-health retirement applications by members of the Northern Ireland Teachers' Superannuation Scheme. |
| 1998/27 | Information about School Performance: School Performance Tables and Publication of Assessment Outcomes (PDF 25 KB) advice about changes to the content and format of the School Performance Tables and the introduction of new requirements to publish assessment outcomes in school prospectuses and Governors' Annual Reports. |
| 1998/25 | Promoting and Sustaining Good Behaviour in Schools: Summary of New Legislative Provisions (PDF 14 KB) This circular advises of new legislation requiring the implementation of discipline policies in schools and provides additional support to schools in the matter of suspensions and expulsions. |
| 1998/24 | Education (Target (PDF 13 KB) advise schools hat the Department has made Regulations requiring schools to set annual targets for overall performance of pupils at the school. |
| 1998/23 | Information for Parents about Assessment Outcomes (PDF 19 KB) advice about the introduction of a new requirement to publish assessment outcomes in school prospectuses and Governors' Annual Reports. |
| 1998/07 | Changes to Teachers' Pay from 1 April 1998 and 1 December 1998 (PDF 88 KB) This circular sets out the teacher pay scales from 1 April 1998 and 1 December 1998. |
| 1998/03 | Recording and Reporting Individual Pupils' Achievements (PDF 99 KB) explains the requirements of the Education (Pupil Records) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and the Education (Individual Pupils' Achievements) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 |
| 1998/01 | Estimates of Pension Benefits. (PDF 8 KB) This circular advises employers on the procedures for requesting estimates of pension benefits. |
| 1997/31 | Reporting Pupils' Achievements at the end of Key Stage 2 and the transfer of information to Post (PDF 11 KB) advice for principals on the results of the consultation exercise to simplify and streamline end of Key Stage 2 reporting requirements. |
| 1997/29 | Assessment Arrangements in Key Stage 3 (PDF 12 KB) advice about the introduction of minor changes to the Key Stage 3 Assessment Arrangements. |
| 1997/28 | Physical and mental fitness of teachers to teach in Institutions of Further Education (PDF 68 KB) The Circular gives guidance on the assessment procedures for those concerned with the physical and mental fitness to teach of intending and serving teachers. It also outlines procedures for physical and mental assessment while in service as a teacher. Specific advice is given on particular diseases and disorders. |
| 1997/27 | Post entry training for teachers in Further Education (FE) (PDF 21 KB) The Further Education Teachers’ (Eligibility) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 require that every person employed, as a teacher must have such qualifications as may be approved by the Department. This circular updates those teacher-training requirements in the light of the change to the law from 1 October 1997 to end the requirement for new teachers to serve successfully a statutory probationary period. |
| 1997/25 | Assessment Arrangements in Key Stage 1 & 2 (PDF 10 KB) explains the requirements of the Education (Assessment Arrangements for Key Stages 1 and 2) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997. |
| 1997/18 | Education (School Information and Prospectuses) (Amendment) Regulations (NI) 1997 (PDF 12 KB) explains the requirements of the Education (School Information and Prospectuses) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 |
| 1997/16 | Physical and mental fitness of teachers to teach (PDF 32 KB) This circular gives guidance on the assessment procedures for those concerned with the physical and mental fitness to teach, of intending and serving teachers. |
| 1997/14 | Employment of Teachers (PDF 15 KB) This circular announces changes, from 1997, to the law regulating the eligibility of persons to be employed as teachers. |
| 1997/11 | Qualifications of teachers in Nursery, Primary, Secondary and Special schools (PDF 27 KB) This circular outlines the qualifications required to teach in Northern Ireland. |
| 1997/08 | Changes to Teachers' Pay from 1 April 1997 and 1 December 1997 (PDF 78 KB) This circular sets out the teacher pay scales from 1 April 1997 and 1 December 1997. |
| 1997/01 | Changes to Teachers' Pay from 1 September 1996 and 1 September 1997 (PDF 13 KB) This circular introduced half points on the teachers' pay spine from September 1996 and a change to the wording of performance criterion for Principals and Vice-principals from September 1996 and September 1997. |
| 1996/41 | School Transport (PDF 201 KB) The current arrangements for the provision of home to school transport came into operation in September 1997. Your child will only be eligible for transport assistance in circumstances where he or she enrols at a school which is beyond qualifying distance from your home (two miles for primary pupils or three miles for post-primary pupils) and has been unsuccessful in gaining a place at all suitable schools |
| 1996/36 | Substitution Arrangements for CCEA Sponsored Activities (PDF 24 KB) to advise about the arrangements for claiming substitution costs in relation to activities sponsored by the Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment. |
| 1996/32 | The Education (1996 Order) (Commencement No. 1) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 (PDF 17 KB) to explain the effect of the following Articles, in relation to - The Northern Ireland Curriculum and associated arrangements; Key Stage definitions; Under-age/over-age transfer; and Boards of Governors :- |
| 1996/31 | Incorporation of Boards of Governors (PDF 239 KB) Governors are already largely protected by legislation and this provision has been introduced to safeguard their personal position even further. The purpose of this Circular is to explain incorporation and the consequences for Boards of Governors. |
| 1996/30 | Education (School Information and Prospectuses) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 (PDF 19 KB) to explain the requirements of the Regulations. |
| 1996/28 | Assessment Arrangements in Key Stages 1 & 2 (PDF 11 KB) advice on the introduction of statutory assessment in Key Stages 1 and 2. |
