A Real Skill As College Celebrates Its Successes
NORTHERN Regional College Higher Education students have been celebrating their hard work and new-found skills at the college’s recent graduation ceremonies. The graduating students completed courses in areas including education, sport, health and social care, counselling, business and management, engineering, and computing across NRC’s six campuses at Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine, Magherafelt and Newtownabbey. Higher education...
How to write that winning UCAS form
With the first deadline looming in a month, time is running out if you are considering applying for a university place next year. Anne Richardson from the Department for Employment and Learning’s Careers Service has this advice… Deciding to go to university or college and choosing the course and location that is right for you...
What’s it like to study… Astronomy
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO STUDY… ASTRONOMY Samuel Nathan Richards studied a BSc in Astronomy at the University of Hertfordshire WHY would anyone study Astronomy? I think the great, late Carl Sagan said it perfectly, “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” It is in this that I cannot remember a time that...
Career Academy
Career Academy engineering students from Northern Regional College recently joined 1,300 other teenagers in London for an exclusive behind the scenes introduction to over 75 influential London-based employers. Speaking at the event, James McCreary, Career Academies UK chief executive, said: “Never has the relationship between student and employer been so crucial. Young people have to...
Hilary scores big in accountancy exam
A post-graduate student from West Belfast has come first in Northern Ireland and second in the world for the score achieved in her Performance Strategy paper, part of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants’ (CIMA) final examinations. Hilary Marshall also came fourth in the world overall in her Strategy papers. She currently works in the...
Students take the law into their own hands
Budding lawyers at Ashfield Girls’ School, Belfast have gained a unique insight into potential careers in law They teamed up with negotiation specialists from legal firm Allen & Overy to crack the art of successful bartering. The one-day workshop held at the law firm’s Belfast-based Legal Services Centre aimed to help the girls develop the...
What’s It Like To Study… Film
NICK ROWLAND studied a BA in Film Production at The Arts University College at Bournemouth (AUCB) Everyone loves films, right? We have all grown up in front of the silver screen and we all become captivated by the excitement and escapism it offers. There is a slightly surreal quality to the cinema experience; you walk...
University of Ulster celebrates students’ success at annual Science Shop Awards
FOUR University of Ulster students are celebrating their success at this year’s Science Shop Awards at the University of Ulster. Sharing first prize were Lance Wilson, Sam Forson and Adam Williamson from the UU’s Coleraine campus who undertook a project with Pavestone, a Vocational and Leisure Rehabilitation Centre in Coleraine. The students developed an online...
How To Be A… Registered Nurse
There are many routes into nursing explains Sinead Polland, Director and Nurse Manager at Lucas Love Healthcare: “Nursing is a diverse, challenging and very rewarding career choice. Nurses and nursing staff take responsibility for the care they provide and answer for their own judgments and actions. They constantly respond to new challenges and act as...
Colleges ‘Leading Way To Jobs And Prosperity’
NORTHERN Ireland’s further education sector is leading the way to jobs and prosperity, according to a prominent educationalist. Malachy McAleer, director at South West College, was speaking at the launch of Northern Ireland’s first Higher Level ICT Apprenticeship programme at the Enniskillen Image Centre. The pilot programme, funded by the Department for Employment and Learning,...