Help and support for students and parents at results time
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Careers advice and guidance
For many young people these will have been their first formal exams and they may be feeling apprehensive and uncertain about their results and future career choices.
They will have to decide whether to continue in full-time education, take up an apprenticeship or traineeship, enter employment, or take a gap year.
As a parent or carer you may be uncertain about your son or daughter’s options after they receive their exam results and how best to support and guide them, especially if they do not get the results they had hoped for.
The Careers Service has a team of professionally-qualified careers advisers who provide free, impartial advice and guidance for students and their parents to help support them in making important educational and career decisions.
Results online support
To help explore the various options there is lots of useful information available in the results section, including articles on:
- continuing education
- student life
- work and training
- useful contacts
Contact a careers adviser
Careers advisers are always available to offer support whatever the circumstances, and at any stage in an individual’s career journey, even after they have left school.
To contact a careers adviser:
- go online and chat with an adviser
- phone: 0300 200 7820
- email by completing an 'Ask Careers' online form
Extended hours on 18 and 25 August
Careers advisers will be available to provide support to students/ parents from 9.30 am to 7.00 pm on:
- Thursday 18 August and Friday 19 August (A Level results)
- Thursday 25 August and Friday 26 August (GCSE/ vocational results)
Querying your results
If you have a query on any issue about your results, your school will be able to advise you of the procedure to follow.
A Level students: UCAS clearing/ universities
- UCAS Results, confirmation and clearing
- Queen's University Belfast
- Ulster University
- Stranmillis University College
- St Mary's University College
- Open University
Furthr Education colleges
- Belfast Metropolitan College
- CAFRE (College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise)
- North West Regional College
- Northern Regional College
- South Eastern Regional College
- South West College
- Southern Regional College
Social media
You can follow the Careers Service at:
- Facebook: Skills to Succeed
- Instagram: @Economy_NI
- Twitter: @Economy_NI
- LinkedIn: Department for the Economy NI