NEARLY one fifth of all high-er education students in Northern Ireland are studying in one of the six local further education regional colleges, according to Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Ferry. He was addressing the re-cent South Eastern Regional College (SERC) graduation ceremony in Belfast and said NI’s FE colleges played a central role in strengthen-ing economic development, promoting learning and enhancing social cohesion. “I am committed to the sector’s delivery of HE and my department has added an additional 828 full-time higher education places in the FE sector,” he added.
College’s Big Role
20th October 2014