Employment Briefs – Beating Superbugs
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have developed a cutting-edge new medical therapy that could protect UK hospital patients against a lethal superbug. The treatment, which uses a molecule called an inhibitor to prevent the new superbug Klebsiella pneumonia from blocking the body’s natural defences, has the potential to save thousands of lives in the UK...
Employment Briefs – Poets on the Move
Three budding poets have been selected as the winners of the Translink Smart Movers Poetry competition. Translink teamed up with Poetry NI to run a competition to coincide with National Poetry Writing Month which encouraged passengers to tap into their inner poet, sit back, relax and perfect their poetic prose while onboard bus, coach or...
Employment Briefs – Sponsoring Blues
Travel firm American Holidays is sponsoring this year’s Belfast City Blues Festival. The music festival, now in its seventh year, takes place this weekend (June 26-28) in 16 venues across the city. Confirmed artists include Blues legends such as Pat McManus and Rab McCullough as well as Ken Haddock, Kaz Hawkins and Her Band O...
Going Wild in Woodland Classroom
SOUTH Eastern Regional College (SERC) students have transformed a neglected woodland on the college grounds into an outdoor classroom as part of their coursework. Supported by wild flower planting project Grow Wild and funding from the Big Lottery Fund, the group of Animal Management students, with the help from the School of Construction, overhauled the...
Could a bad digital Footprint be a pitfall for your Business?
BEING aware of your online presence has never been more important when it comes to your job search. More and more employers look at a candidate’s digital footprint before even meeting with them, and depending on what they find online — whether it is fair or not — you can be sure that they will...
Space Age Facility Close to Completion
A recent hard hat tour of South Eastern Regional College’s (SERC) new Performing Arts, Computing and Engineering facility, The SPACE, showed the progress construction on the project is making. Principal Ken Webb and tutors from the School of Performing Arts and Engineering were on hand to lead the committee of Culture, Arts and Leisure on...
New exhibition seeks to bring science to life
Schools from across Northern Ireland will showcase more than 150 science and engineering projects at this year’s Sentinus Young Innovators Exhibition. The annual science showcase celebrates the achievements of young people in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM), and alongside the exhibition there will be a number of interactive shows designed to bring science to...
Almac‘s US deal to develop cancer drug
Almac Discovery, which develops treatments for cancer, has signed a deal with a US-based pharmaceutical company to license and further develop a new class of drug molecules to fight the disease. The new class of drug molecules blocks the activity of an important cancer pathway which has been a focus of biotech and pharmaceutical companies...
Employment Briefs – Building Jobs Up
The construction industry is leading jobs growth as Northern Ireland’s claimant count fell by 1,000 in May. The separate labour force survey (LFS) found the unemployment rate for the province in the three months to April was now 6.1%, higher than the UK average of 5.5%. There was a slight rise of 0.1% on the...
Employment Briefs – Bright Sparks
Six students in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast have been awarded scholarships by Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE). The scholarships, each worth £25,000, include financial support as well as the opportunity to spend a year’s placement and each summer working for the Company. NIE launched the Scholarship programme with Queen’s University in 2011...