Employer support programmes
Apprenticeships: delivering work-based training and qualifications to employees
Apprenticeships help employers provide work-based training and qualifications to employees aged 16 and over
Advertise apprenticeship and school work experience opportunities on Connect to Success NI
Promote and advertise your apprenticeship and school work experience opportunities through Connect to Success, DfE's online system
How to access a traineeship for employers
How employers can get started with a traineeship
Foundation degrees: providing higher education qualifications to improve employees' skills
Helping Northern Ireland employers provide higher education qualifications to improve employees' skills
Training for Success and Skills for Life and Work: providing work experience for young people
Helping employers in Northern Ireland provide work experience for school leavers aged 16/17 years (and up to age 22 and 24 for those with extended eligibility)
Work Experience Programme
The Work Experience Programme gives employers the opportunity to offer unemployed people meaningful work experience
Assured Skills: delivering skilled employees through pre-employment training programmes
The Assured Skills programme offers you the chance to recruit high quality graduates who are 'job ready'
Essential Skills: developing literacy, numeracy and ICT skills
Essential Skills is a training programme which assists employees aged 16 and over in the development of literacy, numeracy and ICT skills
Further education training opportunities for your business
How further education (FE) and higher education (HE) courses can develop your employees' professional skills and bring measurable benefits to your business