Study USA marks 20th birthday with special celebration
Study USA celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Formerly known as the Business Education Initiative, the programme offers students scholarships to spend a year studying business in the United States and is managed by British Council Northern Ireland on behalf of the Department for Employment and Learning. Since its formation in 1994, the initiative has...
Claimants Down
The number of people claiming unemployment benefits has fallen over the last 12 months. The latest figures for September 2014 show that the number of claimants decreased by 300 over the month, with a total fall of 9,400 over the last 12 months. Figures for the period June-August 2014 show the unemployment rate was 6.1%, a decrease of 0.5 percentage points over the quarter and 1.2 over the year....
Winning Partners
A KNOWLEDGE Transfer Partnership (KTP) between Queen’s University Belfast and Hughes Insurance has been named as the NI Regional Winner in this year’s KTP Awards. Queen’s is the UK’s leading institution for KTPs, working with businesses to improve their competitiveness and productivity through the knowledge, technology and skills that reside within the University. Speaking about the award, Hughes’ Chief Executive, Gareth Brady, said: “The KTP was hugely successful for us, embedding new...
GAA Sport Success
EMPLOYMENT BRIEFS GAA SPORT SUCCESS THE first NRC Level 3 GAA Academy students have been celebrating their Diploma in Sport (Development, Coaching & Fitness). This unique course brings education and sport together, allowing participants to develop Gaelic games abilities as well as gaining a nationally recognised qualification, coaching certificates and the opportunity to participate in...
Chance to make History with Navan Fort
ARMAGH is on the hunt for a creative artistic director or producer with the passion to transform the historic Navan Fort into a world class visitor destination. Armagh City and District Council wants the new artistic director/producer to play a central role in developing an innovative experiential interpretation of one of Ireland’s most impressive legendary...
Skilled people will help ‘transform the economy’
NORTHERN Ireland’s chief asset is its people and it is their talents and skills that will transform the economy, according to Employment & Learning Minister Stephen Farry. He was speaking at the re-cent launch of the second phase of the Qualifying the Existing Workforce initiative at the Construction Industry Training Board NI (CITB) Nutts Corner...
College’s Big Role
NEARLY one fifth of all high-er education students in Northern Ireland are studying in one of the six local further education regional colleges, according to Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Ferry. He was addressing the re-cent South Eastern Regional College (SERC) graduation ceremony in Belfast and said NI’s FE colleges played a central role in...
Nelson Returns
Nelson has been reap-pointed as a member of the governing body of Northern Regional College (NRC). Mr Nelson is chief executive of LEDCOM, one of Northern Ireland’s longest established business enterprise centres, and has over 22 years’ experience working as a business adviser, mentor and trainer with entrepreneurs, start up companies, small businesses and social...
State-of-the-art refrigeration skills training on offer
SOUTH Eastern Regional College (SERC) is offering air conditioning and refrigeration training for SMAs wanting to reduce carbon emissions. Thanks to funding from the Department for Employment and Learning’s Skills Solution Customised Training programme, Belfast based company Montgomery Refrigeration Ltd has already up-skilled over 20 refrigeration engineers. They trained in specialist hydrocarbon (HC) refrigerant to...
Scheme gets firms access to Knowledge
A KNOWLEDGE transfer programmehelping businesses improve their performance is now in it’s third launch phase. Launching Connceted 3 the minister for Emploment and Learning, Stephen Farry said: “My decision to approve a third round of Connected to run for the next four years, represents an investment of over £4.5 million and is testament to the excellent...