http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisi/1989/2406

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1989/2406/article/110/made

The Education Reform(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

School admissions

School governance, management and finance

School welfare, behaviour and attendance

Special educational needs and additional support

Attendance and truancy

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2020-06-18

NORTHERN IRELAND

In this Order—Part II sets out the general duty of the Department in relation to education;Part III makes provision for the curriculum in grant-aided schools and for the establishment and functions of the Northern Ireland Curriculum Council and the Northern Ireland Schools Examinations and Assessment Council;Part IV regulates the admission of children to grant-aided schools;Part V provides for the financing by boards of controlled and maintained schools and for the delegation to the Boards of Governors of those schools of the management of all or part of the school’s budget share and of certain responsibilities in relation to staff and makes new provision for the funding of voluntary grammar schools;Part VI provides for the establishment and management of grant-maintained integrated schools and controlled integrated schools;Part VII restates the functions of boards in relation to further and higher education, makes new provision for the management of institutions of further education, provides for the financing by boards of institutions of further education and for the delegation to the governing bodies of such institutions of the management of the institution’s budget and of certain responsibilities in relation to staff;Part VIII makes provision in relation to the management of grant-aided schools and regulates the making of charges in such schools;Part IX provides for the constitution and functions of the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools;Part X contains miscellaneous provisions relating to education.

The Education Reform(Northern Ireland) Order 1989

The Education Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

art. 13(3)(b)

The Welfare Reform (Northern Ireland) Order 2015

Sch. 12

Pt. 1

art. 2(2)

PART VIIFURTHER AND HIGHER EDUCATION

Further and higher education funding schemes

Further and higher education funding schemes: determination of budget shares110

1

The provision to be included in a scheme for determining the budget share for any financial year of each institution of further education covered by the scheme in that year shall require that share to be determined (and from time to time revised) by the application of a formula laid down by the scheme for the purpose of dividing among all such institutions so much of the board’s further and higher education budget for that year as is appropriated by the board for allocation in accordance with the scheme among those institutions.

2

In this Article “formula” includes methods, principles and rules of any description, however expressed.

3

The formula laid down by a scheme in accordance with paragraph (1)—

a

shall include provision for taking into account, in the case of each institution covered by the scheme in any financial year, the student numbers allocated to that institution under the scheme for that year; and

b

may include provision for taking into account any other factors affecting the needs of individual institutions which are subject to variation from institution to institution.

4

The student numbers allocated to any institution under a scheme for any financial year shall be determined (and may from time to time be revised) in such manner as may be provided by the scheme.

5

A scheme must provide for all amounts and student numbers relevant to the determination of an institution’s budget share under the scheme for any financial year to be determined initially before the beginning of that year.