PROFESSIONAL development must be considered alongside teacher training, according to Northern Ireland’s biggest locally based teaching union. Avril Hall Callaghan, General Secretary of Ulster Teachers’ Union, was speaking as the Department of Employment and Learning asked for submissions from stakeholders on its review of teacher training. “Any such study is an opportunity to look at...
Our website www.nijobfinder.co.uk has been named best regional job site for the second year in a row at this week’s National Online Recruitment Awards (Nora). The awards, held in London, acknowledge and reward excellence in online recruitment practice from the perspective of jobseekers themselves. The Noras were established as a standard by which recruitment websites...
A Ballygowan manufacturing company has joined forces with its further education college to explore new product design possibilities, enter new markets and streamline production processes. Thanks to an educational partnership between South Eastern Regional College (SERC) and family run transport manufacturer, Motorsport Trailers, the company is making the most of SERC’s engineering expertise. Working alongside...
Queen’s University chemists are celebrating after winning three global awards for cutting-edge work to remove harmful mercury from natural gas. The project by Queen’s University Ionic Liquid Laboratories (Quill), in collaboration with Malaysian oil and gas giant Petronas, was the major winner at the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) Awards. As well as collecting the...
Springboard Opportunities Ltd have announced the opening of its recruitment drive for the 2014 Directions programme. Directions is a week-to-week personal development scheme that has been running since 1997, and to date 27 Directions programmes have helped 526 young participants. For details visit www.springboard-opps.co.uk. Launching the scheme are Ruairi McVeigh from Belfast, a past participant,...
Northern Ireland’s young accountants are among the best in the world, according to Joan Ballantine, chairman of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) Ulster Members’ Network. She was speaking in the wake of the successes enjoyed by local entrants in the global accountancy body’s 2013 exams. The results saw seven Northern Ireland students placed...
THE Northern Ireland Independent Retail Trade Association (NIIRTA) is urging young people to consider self-employment as a serious career option. “Retail is our largest employer in the private sector and it is going through a constant process of change and innovation,” said Glynn Roberts, chief executive of NIIRTA. “We need to see new retail entrepreneurs...
The Deloitte Analytics Training Academy (Data) is helping bridge Northern Ireland’s skills gap according to Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry. Congratulating the latest graduates from the academy, he said:“We have a vast wealth of skills and qualifications amongst graduates who are currently out of work, and the academy model is an extremely effective...
The University of Ulster welcomed Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to its Jordanstown campus as part of her day-long visit to Northern Ireland earlier this week. Princess Anne’s visit marked the 40th anniversary of the introduction of occupational therapy education at the University of Ulster — the only provider of degree-level occupational therapy education...
LOCAL schoolchildren had a chance to play the stock market recently, thanks to financial technology business, NYSE Euronext. . The company’s Maths Awareness Day was delivered in partnership with Business in the Community and facilitated by NYSE Euronext’s STEM Ambassadors. STEM Ambassadors are industry volunteers who engage with the younger generation to act as role...
