NATFHE Links : Northern Ireland

CONTACT INFORMATION

NATFHE Northern Ireland Office
475 Lisburn Road
Belfast
N Ireland BT9 7EZ

REGIONAL OFFICIAL, NORTHERN IRELAND
Jim McKeown
Telephone 028 90665501 / Fax 028 90669225

REGIONAL ADMINISTRATOR
Lauren McCullough
Telephone 028 90665501 / Fax 028 90669225

Click here for resources archive of agreements, contracts, procedures, circulars, LNC reports etc at the bottom of this page. You can also check out past issues of Northern Ireland News.

19 September 2006

Training for Success a panic reaction

UCU Northern Ireland comments on DEL consultation document - Training for Success: Professional and Technical Training

See document

Strike ballot opens at sixteen colleges

Lecturers in Northern Ireland’s sixteen further education colleges are being balloted on industrial action for the second time in just over a year. Lecturers are angry over the failure of the colleges to honour promises to raise their pay to the level of schoolteachers in Northern Ireland. In 2001, and again in 2004, the employers (College Employers Forum) agreed to put in place pay arrangements for an upper pay spine similar to that awarded to schoolteachers but these have never been implemented.

Press release
Planned strike days
Industrial action leaflet
Latest issue of NI News

2 March 2006

LNC report 24 February 2006

Pay Claim 2005/06
Job Evaluation Scheme for Management Spine
Sickness Absence Scheme
Suspension and Expulsion of Pupils
Harassment/Disability Policies
Grievance/Discipline/Capability procedures
FE Review
Definition of an untrained teacher
Payment to ALs for attendance at PGCFHE

See report

6 January 2006

Pay parity with schoolteachers

NATFHE has just produced a succinct analyisis of the case for pay parity with schoolteachers for FE lecturers in Northern Ireland, including projected costings for implementing parity.

See document

17 December 2004

Website consultations

Click on NATFHE comment on Higher Education in Northern Ireland (Word doc).

17 June 2004

Will DEL's Strategy for FE Deliver?

The intentions of the Department for Employment and Learning’s Strategy Document Further Education Means Business for People, Communities and the Economy in Northern Ireland are welcomed by NATFHE, but the union questions whether the actions proposed in the strategy document will deliver. For more information see the full text of the NATFHE comment on the Strategy Document (Word doc).

NORTHERN IRELAND NEWS BACK ISSUES

Northern Ireland News September 2005 (pdf file)
Northern Ireland News April 2005 (pdf file)
Northern Ireland News September 2004 (pdf file)
Northern Ireland News January 2004 (pdf file)
Northern Ireland News August 2003 (pdf file)
Northern Ireland News June 2003 (pdf file)
Northern Ireland News February 2003 (pdf file)

LNC REPORTS