Career events vital
A LECTURER at South Eastern Regional College’s Newtownards campus has praised the value of hands-on careers events. William Kane, construction lecturer, was speaking after a recent Armed Forces Careers Exhibition at Kinnegar Barracks, Holywood, and at Belfast Docks. “I think this was an excellent opportunity for the students to see what life in the armed...
UU To Explore Public Trust In Police
A NEW PhD research partnership at the University of Ulster will explore why some communities lack confidence in the police and how the authorities can address this. The partnership, between the PSNI and the University of Ulster’s School of Criminology, Politics and Social Policy, will look at the ‘knowledge gap’ in issues affecting trust, according...
BMC Has Unsinkable Appeal As Kurdistan President Visits
FE COLLEGESBELFAST Metropolitan College recently welcomed President of Kurdistan, His Excellency Mosoud Barzani, to its Titanic Quarter Campus. Attending the visit was Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry, who together with the Principal, Marie-Thérèse McGivern, showed the President the cutting edge student and classroom facilities located within the state-of-the-art campus. The Minister said: “I...
What’s It Like To Study… Archaeology
LAWRENCE SHAW studied Archaeology Bsc at Bournemouth University. He explains why his degree experience was unforgettable Having grown up in West Sussex, at the foot of the South Downs and a stone’s throw from Cissbury Ring, archaeology and heritage have always played a significant role in my life. As a fan of the outdoors, I...
Sarah’s Off The Charts
Top class: Over 80 Chartered Institute of Building members and guests celebrated the success of local students at the recent 2013 Annual Lecture and Awards ceremony hosted by CITB-ConstructionSkills NI. Among them was Sarah Marshall, project manager for Amey Ventures Management Services, who completed CIOB training with training provider QTAS and was presented with the...
NIE Wants Graduates
NIE will be recruiting a ‘significant number’ of graduate engineers over the next decade, according to its human resources director. Gordon Parkes was speaking during a visit to NIE’s Campsie training Centre by Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry. The Minister offered his Department’s support for NIE’s Apprentice Graduate Scholarship Programme which will see...
Learn For Future
HEALTH Minister Edwin Poots has outlined how skills learned at college today will help enhance communities in the future. He was taking part in a question-and-answer session with health, social care and childcare students at South Eastern Regional College’s Downpatrick Campus. Early Years student Lindsey Vize said: “He took the time to explain to us...
Bring On Best Of Boston
THE Ulster Business School is the first of its kind in the UK to join an elite academic global network teaching an internationally renowned economics course. From April 2013, it will deliver the prestigious Microeconomics of Competitiveness: Firms, Clusters, and Economic Development (MOC) course, developed by Harvard Professor Michael E Porter, a world-leading authority in...
Graduate Bootcamp
THE University of Ulster is holding a free Graduate Bootcamp on February 14 and 15, to help graduates boost their employability skills and increase their chances of finding work. It’s being delivered by the Career Development Centre (CDC) in association with recruitment specialists from Google Ireland and the Royal Navy. Participants will be...
New University Lab Will Revolutionise Cancer Treatment
GRADUATE FOCUS QUEENS’ AND UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER Queen’s A NEW cancer facility has been officially opened at Queen’s University Belfast. The first integrated laboratory of its kind in the UK and Ireland, is to revolutionise cancer research and diagnosis for thousands of patients across Northern Ireland. The new facility is a partnership between Queen’s Centre...