£20K Boost For Female Entrepreneurship
A LOCAL enterprise agency has been awarded over £20,000 in grant funding from RBS, the parent company of Ulster Bank, to help develop female entrepreneurship. Dungannon Enterprise Centre received the support from the RBS Inspiring Women in Enterprise fund for its Innovate- Her Mid-Ulster programme, an initiative designed to encourage women into business. The InnovateHer...
Record Numbers Enrol For Foundation Degrees
DEMAND for low cost and locally-based routes to honours degrees has resulted in record numbers of students signing up for foundation degrees, according to new figures from South West College. In four years, enrolments on the vocational courses increased by 77% as the college, employers and universities jointly rolled out 23 programmes that have helped...
Trip To Liverpool
TWO students from North West Regional College’s Strabane Campus have just returned from an all-expenses paid residential trip to John Moores’ University in Liverpool. Sasha Hawkes and Eunan Hegarty are students on the Level 3 Extended Diploma in health studies course at the college’s Derry Road campus, and were selected for this opportunity which was...
Red Arrow At MET
THE outgoing Squadron Leader of the Red Arrows visited Belfast Met recently to speak to aeronautical engineering students about his experiences flying with the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team. Ben Plank, former Red 8 Flight Lieutenant of the world famous aerial aerobatic crew, highlighted the importance of quality and safety in aircraft engineering. Philip Boyd,...
Bradford Choices
IF you haven’t received the grades you needed for your chosen university then there are still options available. The University of Bradford has places available for students hoping to start this year including courses in the Life Sciences such as Pharmacy and Optometry. Or there is Management and Law as well as engineering programmes that...
New Software Academies To Offer Training
NORTHERN Ireland’s innovative Software Testers’ Academy is aiming to provide graduates with the skills required to take up new opportunities in the international information and communications technology industry. The academy targets HND, degree or equivalent graduates from any discipline and will offer an intensive 16- week training programme, including a company placement, to 36 successful...
At the Forefront of Battle with Cancer
Queen’s University QUEENS University scientists are helping to spearhead a new £6 million initiative to find better ways to prevent cancer. The new initiative, led by Cancer Research UK with matching investment from the BUPA Foundation, aims to support cutting-edge research to find better ways to prevent cancer. It is estimated that more than four...
MET Gets Creative With Showcase Event
BELFAST Met recently held its inaugural Creative Week showcasing talent across its creative academic areas from fashion, visual arts and hair and beauty to performing arts, hospitality and supported learning. The showcase events included a bronze sculpture exhibition, photography exhibition, interactive supported learning project, edible art display, visual art exhibition, dance show and music performance....
Eight Students To Explore New American Frontiers
EIGHT further education students from Northern Ireland will spend two weeks at a prestigious Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) institute in America this summer. The students will take part in the FRONTIERS programme at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Massachusetts. WPI is a private, high class STEM university primarily devoted to the instruction and...
Career Boost
EIGHT unemployed young people took their first steps to a new career when they graduated from The Prince’s Trust’s ‘Get into Cooking’ programme. The programme was delivered and hosted by North West Regional College, and has been specifically tailored give unemployed people the confidence, skills and training to find a job in the catering sector....