Bangor Upskills
BANGOR is bidding to become the first destination in Northern Ireland to achieve WorldHost status, thanks to a new course. The Greater Belfast Retail Skills Shop, South Eastern Regional College (SERC) and North Down Borough Council have come together to pilot a new WorldHost Retail Training scheme. It aims to offer Bangor businesses an innovative...
Local Businesses Help Universities Net £100m
LOCAL universities receive an income of over £100m through business and community interaction. The recent Higher Education Business and Community Interaction Survey (HE-BCI) summary report revealed that co-operation between Northern Ireland’s universities and businesses continues to have a major positive impact on the local economy. Speaking on the findings of the 2010/11 report, Employment and...
Workforce In North West Urged To Improve Skills
THE future economic prosperity of the North West depends on upskilling its workforce, according to a Derry businessman. Gavin Killeen, managing director of Nuprint and chair of the One Plan Skills Directorate and the North West Workforce Development Forum, was speaking during a recent Ministerial visit to the city. In his chairman’s role he is...
Jobs Boost For Tech Firm After £854K Grant
A LISBURN company is set to create over 60 new quality jobs. Seven Technologies, which operates in the field of specialist Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and Internet Protocol (IP) solutions has announced it is creating the high value positions in an expansion supported by Invest NI. Invest NI has offered the company, which...
Working Abroad Expo in Dublin in March
Donegal born Siobhan Deery and her 17 year old daughter Kirstin immigrated to Canada last July having attended the Working Abroad Expo in Dublin in March. Siobhan is a well-qualified and experienced professional with a BA (Hons) in Banking & Finance, MA in Business Studies and a PGCE. Siobhan was interested in...
Meaty online tool
A NEW website will provide a range of tools for professionals in the meat industry to help them develop their business. Invest Northern Ireland has assisted the development of meatconnected.com, a unique online business-to-business networking, trading and information system. It has been developed by Roger McCracken, a Londonderry businessman with extensive experience in the meat...
100 more McJobs
McDonald’s is set to create 100 new jobs in Northern Ireland throughout 2013. It comes as part of a nationwide commitment to create 2,500 new positions across the UK by the end of the year. The fast-food chain currently employs 2,000 people across its 26 restaurants in Northern Ireland. New employees in Northern Ireland will...
Toruism Revamp
Industry leaders have glimpsed the future of tourism in Northern Ireland thanks to a group of talented interior design students from the University of Ulster. As part of their course work they presented representatives from the Northern Ireland Tourist Board and Belfast City Council with their unique ideas to encourage more visitors to the city...
New app drives golf forward
NRC students have helped created the Causeway Coast Golf App thanks to funding from the Employer Support Programme which is financed by the Department of Employment and Learning (DEL) through its Further Education Sector Employer Support ProgrammeThe app is full of great information for golfers on any of Causeway Coast Golf Tournament courses.For more information...
ICT vital for our economic development
ICT is critical for the Northern Ireland economy. That was the message at the launch of Momentum’s, the representative body for Northern Ireland’s digital sector, ICT manifesto. Attending the launch, Minister for Employment and Learning, Stephen Farry said: “The ICT sector is of critical importance to the growth of the Northern Ireland economy and to...