O’Dowd’s Praise For Young Scientists
EDUCATION Minister, John O’Dowd, hosted a reception for students from the north who entered the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 2013. Speaking at the event in Parliament Buildings, the Minister said: “The BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition is one of the largest and longest running of its kind in Europe. Now in its...
BT recruits engineering apprentices
Thirteen new engineering apprentices have been recruited by BT in Northern Ireland. The successful applicants join a skilled engineering workforce responsible for growing and maintaining the network infrastructure that delivers broadband, data and voice services for Northern Ireland homes, businesses and public services. The latest intake of apprentices, ranging in age from 18 to 30,...
Welcome Aboard For BT’s New Intake
Clive Selley, CEO BT Innovate & Design welcomed the latest intake of new graduate entrants to BT. Twenty people have begun their careers with the BT Innovate & Design team, whose role is to design and develop the technology and processes that sit at the core of the networks and platforms that run BT’s business...
Fund to find youth pathway to employment
A training allowance aims to encourage marginalised young people to re-engage with learning through education, skills training or apprenticeships. Announced by Minister for Employment and Learning Dr Stephen Farry, it will target young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) on programmes funded by the European Social Fund (ESF). The allowance addresses concerns about...
Matthew’s skills lead to prestigious final
An Omagh student has made it through to the prestigious Skillauto Final at the NEC in Birmingham in November. Matthew McKeown, a student at South West College Omagh Campus and trainee apprentice at Pat Kirks Ltd Omagh, topped his Northern Ireland heat this summer to win a place in the national final. Specialising in...
Apprenticeship Corner – Environmental E-learning
The National Skills Academy, set up in spring 2011by SummitSkills, is the UK’s leading network of energy efficiency and environmental technologies training. The Skills Academy has been busy preparing new services and has recently unveiled these new options to help installers and apprentices up-skill: * Handy pocket guides to a range of technologies are now...
Apprenticeship Corner – Electronics industry
Employers in the consumer electrical and electronics industry will soon be able to access new appliance repair apprenticeships for staff following SummitSkills’ development of the Consumer Electrical and electronic Products (CEEP) apprenticeship framework. Developed in conjunction with City & Guilds and the Household Electrical and Electronic Servicing Training Forum (HEEST), the frameworks will be...
Bombardier takes on 40 new high flyers
APPRENTICESHIP CORNER CLAIRE CRAIG HAS THE LATEST NEWS Bombardier has enrolled 40 apprentices this month in addition to the 30 graduates who have joined the company this year. The three-year programme, supported by the Department of Employment and Learning (DEL), leads to a National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) level 3 certification in aeronautical engineering and...
Apprenticeships corner
Apprenticeships corner Story 1 A MECHANICAL and electrical contractor which signed up to the Belfast Telegraph’s recent 100 jobs in 100 days campaign has upped its intake of apprentices. William Coates in Newtownabbey said it was taking on three youngsters instead of two because of the high quality of applicants for the posts, which...
Scheme Helping Young People
YOUNG unemployed people who have completed the Belfast Unemployed Resource Centre Youth Initiative Scheme have been presented with certificates of achievement. The eight week project aims to help 16 to 24-year-olds identify and overcome personal and other barriers in the way of training, further education and employment, such as apprenticeships. Employment Minister Stephen Farry said:...