Snowpatrol Rocker Bangs the Drum for Charity
Snowpatrol’s Jonny Quinn checks out his Inspiration Award with Angila Chada from Belfast Charity Springboard Opportunities Ltd. The charity is best known for its Wider Horizons programme, supporting young unemployed adults from disadvantaged backgrounds with training and upskilling.World-famous drummer, Jonny got his lucky break with Springboard’s help.
Students with Disabilities get £500k Funding Boost
Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry has announced a £500,000 increase to funding, aimed at helping students with learning difficulties or disabilities studying in further education colleges. The Additional Support Fund is allocated to colleges to help provide the additional technical and personal support needed by students with disabilities, to access further education. Dr...
College to Give us A Glimpse of Travel in The Future
South West College will be giving Northern Ireland a glimpse of the future this week thanks to the Smarter Travel Conference. The transport event showcasing hi-tech vehicles will be in Enniskillen, as Europe’s experts gather to present how we could be journeying in coming years. The event, organised by Action Renewables and South West College,...
Del Boost to Stem
The Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry has met with Professor James McElnay, the new acting President and Vice Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast. The Minister said: “I look forward to finding out more about what the university is doing to reprofile its existing [course] provision, as well as any new courses which are...
Student Initiative Gets Royal Mail’s Stamp of Approval
Northern Ireland further education students are partnering with local companies to solve real-world engineering problems in an innovative drive to boost employability skills. South Eastern Regional College (SERC) students have been working with businesses to address challenges in manufacturing and engineering. For one particular project with Royal Mail, they devised a range of pioneering solutions...
Your Views Count
Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry has hosted the first in a series of forums to collect the views of employers, young people and training providers on apprenticeships and youth training. Speaking from Belfast Metropolitan College’s e3 campus, he said: “The views expressed will feed into the major review of apprenticeship and youth training...
FE Needs Funding
Government must do more to promote and incentivise further education (FE) study to ensure more people gain new skills, according to the National Union of Students-Union of Students in Ireland president Rebecca Hall.“FE is central to building skills for our economy and to helping attract more jobs to Northern Ireland,” she said. “I know that...
It’s Official, The Tele Is Market Leader For Jobs
RECENT figures reveal more people view NI Jobfinder jobs via print and online than any other job website or paper in Northern Ireland. The NITGI 2013 figures show 487,000 people have viewed Nijobfinder in the last month alone (Belfast Telegraph AIR, Sunday Life AIR and nijobfinder.co.uk past four weeks). With a platform in print,...
City Scapes Tell a Tale
The BT Portrait of a City project is working with community groups across Londonderry to upskill participants in digital media. The initiative is part of the 2013 City of Culture celebrations and a unique undertaking which aims to tell the stories of the city through the photographs, films and memories of its people. The goal...
Success Expected from Government-run Job Fair
Derry is playing host to what is expected to be the most successful jobs fair of its kind to date in the city. Tomorrow’s fair, in the Millennium Forum between 10am and 4pm, has been organised by the Department for Employment and Learning in conjunction with Derry City Council, CultureTECH and EURES. Employment and Learning...