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...
Pupils Get Masterclass on Chinese Culture and Trade
Dancing dragons descended on Dungannon to launch a new South West College initiative. The Confucius Classroom Project will give pupils in 48 schools across Tyrone and Fermanagh a chance to get to grips with Mandarin Chinese and sample the country’s culture through a series of workshops, lessons and events. Supported by the Confucius Institute at...
New £12m Centre ‘Will be a Launch Pad for Artists’
Plans have been announced for the development of a new multimillion pound performing arts and technology centre in Bangor. Announcing the plans for the £12m Performing Arts and Technology Innovation Centre at the South Eastern Regional College in Bangor, Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Farry said: “In the last few years Northern Ireland has become...
Library Award
The McClay Library at Queen’s has won a national award for its outstanding architectural design and facilities. The Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) Award is presented every three years to a UK library that best meets the needs of users and staff. The £50m McClay Library at Queen’s is joint-winner of the...
Gold For Staff
Allianz is among 34 organisations from across Northern Ireland celebrating additional accreditation at Gold, Silver and Bronze levels against the prestigious Investors in People (IiP) framework. Fiona McGilly, HR manager at Allianz, which received Gold accreditation, said: “The process to IiP Gold helped us to continue to focus on our peoples’ development through a period...
Top of The Charts
Magdalena Ryan, a part-time accounting student at the Ulster Business School, has placed first in Ireland and 11th in the world in the 2013 Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) exams. Magdalena from Newry, who works for Envirogroup Ltd in Warrenpoint, excelled in the taxation paper and was presented with the ACCA Special Achievement Award...
Scholarships Open Door to Study in USA
Entry is open for a programme that offers students from Northern Ireland scholarships to spend a year studying in the United States. Study USA provides opportunities for students to study business and management for a year in American colleges across 34 states. The programme — which the Department of Employment and Learning launched in 2011...
Womens Football Course To Change Sport Leadership
A UNIQUE course aims to address the lack of female leaders in football and offer women the chance to forge careers in sport. The Female Football Leaders Programme offers recruits the opportunity to learn leadership skills, gain confidence and contribute to the game locally. Keen to follow in the footsteps of the European and world...
Growing Industry
WITH sustainability, energy efficiency, cost and quality issues becoming ever more important to business owners, there has never been a better time to upskill and facilitate a change into one of the largest and fastest growing industries in the UK and Ireland. That’s according to Stephen Welch, chairman of British Industry of Facilities Management (BIFM)...