Unity 3D Training
SOUTH West College, in conjunction with Digital Circle, is hosting Unity 3D training sessions across Northern Ireland. Unity 3D is a powerful game engine that can be used for a range of purposes including the development of e-learning experiences, interactive software applications and computer games. For information, please contact Carol Viney or Paul McGovern at...
NWRC Is Awarded
NORTH West Regional College has earned the first ever Skills for Health Quality Mark in Northern Ireland thanks to their health & social care training which provides participants with essential qualifications for the workplace. Skills for Health is the employer-led authority on work force development and is the UK Sector Skills Council for Health. Achievement...
Caterpillar Jobs
A MULTI-million pound investment will help create 100 high end manufacturing jobs. Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster and Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Farry have welcomed the news that US engineering firm Caterpillar is investing over £7m in the major manufacturing project. Part of the investment will focus on skills development to facilitate the manufacturing positions...
Volunteering ‘is good for your health’
A UNIVERSITY of Ulster study has emphasised the positive mental and physical impacts of volunteering. The results of the three year research study into the activities of older people who volunteer for charity work, found participants displayed modest improvements in physical health and stability in their mental health scores. Conducted by the University of Ulster,...
Get The Edge With Problem-Solving Programme
SERC has launched a new inititive to help its students ‘Get the Edge’. Over 2,000 from the college took part in the programme, designed to help them gain vital employability skills, including problem-solving and communicating solutions, as well as achieving an additional City and Guilds qualification. Students in small teams competed in the challenge to...
‘Industry leading’ Course Sends Students To Work
STUDENTS at Ulster Business School are getting hands on experience in marketing products for the UK’s £1.4bn infant wear industry. With the country experiencing its biggest baby boom in over 40 years, the University of Ulster’s Business School is giving its 25 marketing management students the opportunity to feed into the marketing strategy of a...
Employment Briefs
Dentist Expansion A DENTAL surgery is to create around 12 new jobs on Belfast’s Lisburn Road. NI Dental Care will form a subsidiary of Church Road Dental Care, Carryduff, a practice founded by David Mann and Anne Higgins in 2009. According to Mr Mann, the expansion of the business, supported by Danske Bank, has been...
Employment Briefs
130 New Girlguides SAINSBURYS and Girlguiding Ulster have teamed up in a recruitment drive for the youth organisation. Thanks to marketing in each of supermarket’s 13 stores in Northern Ireland, the organisation has taken on over 130 new Girlguides and 20 new leaders. Carole Graham, Ulster chief commissioner for Girlguiding Ulster, said:“It was extremely generous...
Employment Briefs
Driving Businesses QUEEN’S University has joined a unique cross-border project aimed at matching innovative ideas to existing businesses or seasoned entrepreneurs. The £2.56m Vital project, funded by the EU’s INTERREG IVA Programme and managed by the Special EU Programmes Body, aims to identify the best knowledge-based ideas,con-nect them to new and existing businesses and create...
A First For PhD Student From Magee with Top Law Bursary Award
A University of Ulster PhD student has become the first in Northern Ireland to receive a prestigious Modern Law Review (MLR) Scholarship. Orla Drummond from Londonderry — who is based at the universities Magee campus — will receive a bursary of £5,000 per annum. She will also be invited to the Modern Law Review Chorley...