Education and Learning Resources

Questions on Education were asked in the Northern Ireland Life and Times (NILT) Survey in 1999, 2001 and 2003 and 2024.
Questions on Skills and Training were asked in the NILT Survey in 2024.
Questions on Public Services were asked in 2007 as part of a UK-wide study on Public Attitudes and Public Service Responsiveness.
Questions on Education are asked in the Young Life and Times (YLT) Survey of 16-year-olds.
A range of questions on relating to school have been included in Kids' Life and Times (KLT) survey of 10-11-year-olds.

 

ARK Resources

• Economic Activity, Skills Development and Lifelong Learning in Northern Ireland (Research Update 167) by Amy Heaps, Marian McLaughlin, Susann Power and Kristel Miller uses data from the 2024 NILT survey.
• Understanding Integrated School Choice in a Changing Policy Landscape of Northern Ireland (Policy Brief 35) by Erin Early, Dirk Schubotz and Jonny Hanson is based on the 2024 Young Life and Times survey.
• Assessing Demand for Integrated Education in Northern Ireland (Policy Brief 24) by Erin Early, Paula Devine, Minchen Liu and Dirk Schubotz, is based on the project Methods for Assessing Demand for Integrated Education.
• Gender Budgeting Working Paper 2: Apprenticeships in Northern Ireland, by Joan Ballantine, Michelle Rouse and Ann Marie Gray, explores the gender impact of apprenticeship policy .
• Participation, happiness and achievement: the impact of poverty on the school experiences of 16-year olds, by Dirk Schubotz, David Simpson and Alex Tennant, uses data from the 2006 YLT survey, and is published by Save the Children.
• School Bullying in Northern Ireland - It hasn’t gone away you know (Research Update 48) by Stephanie Burns, uses data from the 1998 and 2005 Young Life and Times Surveys.
• Research Update 45 - To stay or not to stay: that is the question, by Katrina Lloyd and Paula Devine, focuses on Educational Maintenance Allowance using data from the 2005 Young Life and Times Survey.
• In Search of the Middle Ground: Integrated Education and Northern Ireland Politics (Research Update 42) by Bernadette C Hayes, Ian McAllister and Lizanne Dowds, uses data from the 1998-2003 Life and Times Survey, as well as 1998 and 2003 Election Surveys.
• Research Update 25 - School's out, by Paula Devine and Dirk Schubotz, explores the attitudes of 16 year olds towards the 11+ and school in general, using data from the 2003 Young Life and Times Survey.
• Research Update 17 - Attitudes to Lifelong Learning in Northern Ireland, by John Field is based on data from the 2001 Education module.
  
• Research Update 16 - Attitudes to Academic Selection in Northern Ireland - by Tony Gallagher and Alan Smith reports on results from the 2001 Education module.
  
• Read selections from Education And Community In Northern Ireland Schools Apart? [AND] Schools Together? by John Darby, Seamus Dunn, Dominic Murray, Kenneth Mullan, Sean Farren, D. Batts and J. Harris
  

Links

• Visit the Northern Ireland Department of Education. The site includes a section on statistics and research, as well as publications.
  
• Higher, Further and Vocational education in Northern Ireland falls under the remit of the Department for the Economy.
• The Northern Ireland Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) was set up by government to provide advice on and support for what is taught in schools and colleges in Northern Ireland and how it is assessed.
• EPIC Futures NI is a multi-strand project with the aim of creating evidence-based solutions to fair and inclusive employment across Northern Ireland.

Maintained by Paula Devine