Enrolment Schemes - Guidelines for Development and Operation
Guidelines issued by the Secretary for Education to assist non-integrated schools when developing enrolment schemes and to advise these schools on good practices which will enable them to manage their enrolment schemes in line with the requirements of the legislation.
Foreign Fee-paying Students
Under Section 4(3) of the Education Act 1989, a foreign student cannot be enrolled if the student’s enrolment has the effect that a domestic student cannot be enrolled.
If a foreign fee-paying student lives in the home zone of a school with an enrolment scheme he/she still has no right to be enrolled ahead of out-of-zone domestic students. This effectively means that foreign fee-paying students cannot be enrolled at a school with an enrolment scheme unless the board has provided, out of the fees paid by the students themselves, sufficient classrooms to enable all foreign fee-paying students to be accommodated.