Students celebrate academic success
TWO students from East Belfast are celebrating success after winning top awards at the annual Ulster University Business School’s Student Awards. Finn Geddis, who recently graduated with a BSc Hons degree in Marketing, was presented with the Belfast Telegraph Digital Award for Excellence while BSc Hons Business Studies student Georgia Kennedy, won the Belfast Telegraph...
62% of Northern Ireland workforce will consider moving jobs in 2017
A new survey by NIJobfinder.co.uk has found that 62% of Northern Ireland workers are considering moving jobs in 2017. The survey of 760 Northern Ireland adults also found that 84% of the local workforce looked for a new job in 2016, while 56% would consider moving to a new city or country to land their...
CIPD NI Awards return to Titanic Belfast for 2017
OUTSTANDING achievements within the HR profession will be celebrated at this year’s CIPD Northern Ireland Awards. The event, now firmly established as a key awards gala for the Human Resources profession in Northern Ireland, will take place in Titanic Belfast for the second year with recruitment specialists Grafton as the principal sponsor. Held on May...
Top science achievers recognised at ceremony
FOUR exceptional science students from Northern Ireland have been recognised at the prestigious Hans Sloane Awards ceremony in the Ulster Museum. The Hans Sloane Memorial Fund recognises Northern Ireland’s top achievers in A-level Biology, Chemistry and Physics, and this year’s first place was won by Royal Belfast Academical Institution’s former pupil Omar Helmy, with second...
Students help tackle retail crime
PUBLIC service students from South Eastern Regional College (SERC) have spent their academic term working on a campaign to help tackle retail crime in the Lisburn and Castlereagh District. The students have been working on the project in collaboration with the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Lisburn Commerce Against Crime and the Police and...
Titanic recruitment drive creates 60 new jobs
TITANIC Belfast is recruiting for 60 frontline staff as it gears up for its summer high season. Following a record-breaking 2016, having won the World’s Leading Tourist Attraction, welcomed its 3 millionth visitor and experienced its busiest day to date, this recruitment drive is the largest since it opened in 2012. The world-class exhibition is...
Continued investment needed in STEM skills
NORTHERN Ireland must do better with continued investment in STEM Skills to maximise economic benefits post Brexit. That was the message from educational charity Sentinus following the announcement that fifteen year olds in Northern Ireland performed slightly better than the global average in international tests in maths, reading and science. The results, recorded by the...
All-island accolade for legal course
A PROGRAMME designed by Ulster University has been recognised as the Postgraduate Law Course of the Year at a prestigious all-island awards event. The LLM in Clinical Legal Education, based at the Ulster University Law Clinic, claimed the title at the GradIreland Postgraduate Course of the Year Awards, in recognition of its outstanding contribution to...
Honours for NI staff at Star Awards
TWO staff from Northern Ireland were the overall winners of their Award categories at the Sodexo 2016 Star Awards for the UK and Ireland held in London recently. Alaistair Armstrong, who manages the PSNI contract in Northern Ireland, won the Overall Account Manager of the Year Award while Pamela Millar, Sodexo’s business manager at Allstate...
Support vital for export business
THE business expertise provided by LEDCOM has been instrumental in assisting many businesses to achieve success in export markets. That was the message according to Economy Minister Simon Hamilton during a recent visit to the company’s Willowbank Business Park. During 2016, LEDCOM was involved with initiatives and services which supported 1350 people, helping to create...