Belfast Met proud of partnership prize
BELFAST Metropolitan College (Belfast Met) has been crowned a winner at Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s Chamber Business Awards for 2016. The Springvale Campus of the college was awarded the Education and Business Partnership award for Northern Ireland for its work with leading companies including Deloitte, EY and FinTrU. Judges commented that the...
UU gets new way to navigate route to top
LOCAL communications agency Navigator Blue has teamed up with Ulster University Business School to provide a practical Digital Skills Clinic for final year marketing students. The two-week clinic will seek to train digital marketing students on the practical skills required to make it in a busy digital marketing agency. Professor Mark Durkin, who developed and...
Lean In seminar spells out how balance can boost business
WORKPLACE and boardroom gender balance is good business for everyone. That was the message from a panel of industry experts at a special seminar in Belfast. The event, hosted by Allen & Overy as part of its Diversity & Inclusion Month, was facilitated by the Belfast Chapter of the global Lean In movement and examined...
Study USA Programme is the Business
ENTRY is now open for next year’s Study USA programme, the scheme which offers students from Northern Ireland scholarships to spend a year studying business in the United States. Managed by British Council Northern Ireland on behalf of the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL), Study USA gives students the opportunity to gain valuable international...
Skills Event Brings New Opportunities
THIS November will mark the debut of a new skills and careers event. Skills Northern Ireland, organised by Prospects Events with sponsorship from NIE Networks and supported by Ulster University, has been designed to bring careers to the young people of Northern Ireland and their families in a way they may never have experienced before....
New Belfast office for California software firm
A CALIFORNIA-based software company has opened its first European office in Belfast. This expansion for BDNA Corporation will create at least 17 new jobs over the next two years with posts including a range of positions for software engineers, analysts, technical support staff, professional services and marketing and sales professionals. Economy Minister Simon Hamilton MLA...
Community groups can bank on funding
LOCAL community groups throughout Northern Ireland are being encouraged to apply for grants to help people access the skills and opportunities needed to get into work or start a business. The Ulster Bank’s Skills & Opportunities Fund, first launched in 2015 and now in its second round, is a UK and Ireland Fund that distributes...
Students fly the flag for Northern Ireland
MORE than fifty students from across Northern Ireland are preparing to travel to America to enhance their studies. The 53 students have been selected to take part in the British Council’s Study USA scholarship programme where they will spend a year studying business and management in American colleges across 34 states. The initiative enables the...
Allstate planning to grow Northern Ireland operations
Insurance giant Allstate wants to grow its Northern Ireland operations to include legal services and finance, its boss has said. John Healy, managing director of Allstate NI – which employs 2,200 staff here – told the Belfast Telegraph he wants the business to grow its reach and role in Northern Ireland. Allstate is a global insurance firm,...
Northern Ireland law firm creates 10 extra jobs as it reveals £1m expansion programme over three yea
A Northern Ireland law firm is creating 10 new jobs as part of a £1m expansion. JMK Solicitors, which has offices in Belfast and Newry, said it will grow its business over the next three years. And it says it will expand its team to 55 staff by the end of year. It’s putting the...