Funding scheme open for community projects
COMMUNITY groups are being urged to apply for skills grants worth a total of £2.5m. The Skills & Opportunities Fund programme aims to support projects in disadvantaged communities that help people access the skills and opportunities needed to get into work or start a business now or in the future. And Ulster Bank is calling...
Invest NI propels start-up companies towards success
THE top 40 start-up applicants for this year’s Invest Northern Ireland Propel Programme have been selected and are starting work in the first phase of the support programme. The scheme is designed to fast-track export focused business ideas with high growth potential, led by entrepreneurs who have the ambition, passion and energy to succeed on...
Top Score for student’s interview skills
AN ACCOUNTING student from the Ulster University Business School has out-scored more than 100 of his peers to win the inaugural BDO Interview Award. Organised by the Business School and the University’s Careers/Employability Unit with support from BDO Northern Ireland, the award process comprised a series of mock interviews undertaken by 16 senior staff from...
Entries still sought for this year’s HR awards
THERE is still time to enter this year’s CIPD Northern Ireland Awards. HR professionals are being urged to enter the awards which celebrate excellence within the profession before the March 18 deadline. The awards will be presented to teams, individuals and organisations across 10 categories and CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development,...
CIPD Awards honour est PR professionals
HR PROFESSIONALS are being urged to enter this year’s CIPD Northern Ireland Awards. Celebrating excellence within the profession, the awards will be presented to teams, individuals and organisations across 10 categories. CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development), the professional body for HR and people development, said they highlight the quality of the work and...
College’s Michael has the recipe for success with award
PROFESSIONAL cookery tutor from South Eastern Regional College (SERC) Michael Gillies has won the City & Guilds Medal for Excellence Award for his outstanding work in delivering the organisation’s cookery programmes at the college. The City & Guilds Medals for Excellence have been awarded for over 100 years and aim to acknowledge exceptional talent amongst...
Plenty on offer at job fair in Bangor
MORE than 20 employers will be recruiting at an employment event in Bangor this month. The North Down Jobs Fair, organised by the Department for Employment and Learning in conjunction with Ards and North Down Borough Council, will take place in the Marine Court Hotel on February 25 between 10am and 4pm. Present on the...
Entrepreneurs urged to avail of backing on business plans
MORE than 3,000 buying entrepreneurs are to get help creating their business plans in 2016. As part of The Regional Start Initiative, the next generation of businessmen and women are being invited to get help turning their business ideas into tangible business plans that could help them to secure funding from potential investors. In its...
Scottish Minister’s Meeting on Services
THE Minister for Employment and Learning, Stephen Farry, recently met with the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work, Skills and Training, Roseanna Cunningham, to discuss the delivery of employment programmes and services in Northern Ireland. The powers for the delivery of employment provision will be devolved to the Scottish government in 2017 and this is...
Academic Joins CAS
A QUEEN’S University professor has been appointed as an arbitrator to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Known as the international court of justice for sport, Prof Jack Anderson, from Queen’s School of Law, is the first person based in Northern Ireland to be appointed to the organisation in its 20 year history. Prof...