ESOL NI – E-zine Sep/Oct 2024 Edition
*For full details, contacts and web links please refer to the ESOL NI E-zine main PDF document attached to this email*
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Section 1: General Education opportunities to ESOL learners
Section 2: News and Updates – ESOL sector (teachers/volunteers) and stakeholders in Northern Ireland
- Belfast Met’s new Millfield ESOL Hub:
Check the main PDF E-zine document attached for further details.
- New list of community-based classes across NI – compiled by ESOL volunteers Johanne Martin and Angela Russell
(as per 20th Sept update – Word document enclosed to this E-zine email)
- ESOL Element – Belfast Met English language programme for young people 16 to 24 from RAS backgrounds – places still available – follow the details below to apply – limited spaces available.
Check the main PDF E-zine document attached for further details.
- Applications are open to the STEP Ahead online national ESOL and Employability programme delivered by the World Jewish Relief and British Council – deadline for application 31st October – limited spaces available.
Check the main PDF E-zine document attached for further details.
Registration deadline: 31st October 2024
- STEP Ukraine intensive online programme is still open for registrations for the term starting in December 2024 – by World Jewish Relief and British Council.
Check the main PDF E-zine document attached for further details.
- Alternative online Apps and options for free online courses to ESOL learners.
Check the main PDF E-zine document attached for further details.
- Queen’s University Pathway Opportunity Programme to your young people (going into year 13 or equivalent at college) – 2025/26 applications.
Flyer and links about this programme attached and via document enclosed to this E-zine email.
- Belfast Met’s dates for Further Education and Higher Education applications to courses in 2025:
- Higher Education applications open Wed 27th November 2024
Higher Education Open Evening Thursday 28th November 2024 (details and times to be confirmed)
- Further Education applications open on Wednesday 22nd January 2025
Further Education Open Morning Sat 25th January 2025
- The Belfast Met Student Funding Office has affiliated with Barclays to bring a funding opportunity to our FE students that have dependent children. Please see below a message from Barclays regarding this fund.
Check the main PDF E-zine document attached for further details.
- Belfast Met’s Family Action Fund (Support for Asylum Seekers in Further Education).
Check the main PDF E-zine document attached for further details.
- Free Information Event for Migrant and Ethnic Minority Communities at Queen’s University Belfast.
Please find a flyer enclosed to this E-zine email with information. Wednesday 6th November 2024 at the Queen’s University Belfast campus.
- The Shape of Safety: a guide to reimagining safety and safeguarding alongside young people with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and trauma.
Check the main PDF E-zine document attached for further details.
- E-visas information – In October last year we told you that the government are planning to get rid of all Biometric Residence Permits (BRPs) on 31st December 2024. Proof of immigration status moves online from 2025 onwards.
For more information visit gov.uk/eVisa (weblink) or check the main PDF E-zine document attached.
- NATECLA webinars for the next few weeks (Oct/Nov 2024):
Check the main PDF E-zine document attached for further details:
Ligia Parizzi
ESOL Coordinator NIRRS (Northern Ireland Refugee Resettlement Scheme)
028 9026 5233 / 07814046391 |
