Apprenticeships offer alternative learning opportunities
For many students undertaking GCSE and A-level exams and embarking on the long wait for results, the month of June can bring about a great deal of stress and anxiety. As the cost of going to university continues to rise, the commitment to a further three or four years of book learning can seem daunting...
Childcare dream comes to life through apprenticeship scheme
AN APPRENTICESHIP has allowed a teenager who left school with no qualifications and no confidence to fulfil her dream of working with children - and fuel an ambition to eventually be a primary school teacher.
Apprentice Recruitment Job Fair
SOUTH Eastern Regional College (SERC) is hosting an Apprenticeship job fair to offer school leavers, or anyone thinking of taking on an apprenticeship, the chance to find out more about local opportunities commencing from September 2019
Banking on Future Career Success
DANKSE Bank and Ulster University are inviting new applications for a unique apprenticeship programme that offers school leavers the opportunity to get paid work experience in the banking sector while studying for a degree.
Engineering Apprenticeships – Translink
Translink, operating as Ulsterbus, Metro, Northern Ireland Railways and NITHCo, operates 1355 buses, coaches and Gliders, alongside 45 trains, providing the Northern Ireland public with comprehensive stage carriage, express and school transport services. In order to maintain and develop the highest standards of engineering, Translink have identified opportunities for structured 4-year Apprenticeships within their Bus...
ICT apprentices help identify emerging trends
TWELVE students have secured ICT apprenticeships. The new apprentices at Fujitsu have been appointed as part of the firm’s strategy to help boost the local technology talent pipeline and are part of the Department for the Economy’s IT and Telecoms Professional Apprenticeship Programme. Through the programme, the apprentices, who are studying at Belfast Metropolitan College...
Providing a pathway to success in the IT Sector
BELFAST Metropolitan College’s (Belfast Met) IT apprenticeship programme is helping students get the skills they need to forge a successful career in the booming IT sector. An example of one such student is Shane Toner. Three years ago Shane had zero ICT qualifications, yet thanks to Belfast Met’s IT apprenticeship programme, he has become a...
Construction Apprentices Building Skills
STUDENTS from Southern Regional College (SRC) have won a record haul of awards at Northern Ireland’s premier construction skills competition. A total of 17 awards were presented to SRC during Skillbuild NI, the annual construction industry awards for apprentices. At the event, held at the SRC campus in Portadown, more than 80 promising students from...
Earn as You Learn IT Opportunities
LAW firm Allen & Overy has recruited two IT apprentices on a two-year earn while you learn scheme led by the Department for the Economy. Stacey Bryce and Didac Fernandez-Girona completed an intensive five-week boot camp, coordinated by Belfast Met College, before joining the firm’s Belfast IT team. Now in its fourth year, the apprenticeship...
Motor apprentice moves up a gear
DONNELLY Group apprentice Timothy Hagan has been named Northern Ireland Auto Skills Apprentice of the Year 2017. Having successfully completed a series of six challenging tasks at an Omagh intercampus competition, judged by David Massie, Skills Competition Manager at the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI), Timothy, a student at the South West College, will...