National hope for winning team
A TEAM of entrepreneurial pupils from St Patrick’s College in Dungannon recently swapped the classroom for the shop-floor in Asda, Cookstown to promote their awardwinning project, Enlighten Hope. The Enlighten Hope team, which recently scooped the Young Enterprise NI Company of the Year Award, wrote and illustrated a series of three short stories to help...
Pat O’Donnell
Role: Assistant Curator Company: Ulster American Folk Park Track Record: Give a brief outline of your career to date. After graduating I spent some years at home with my young family. I was living in the Ormeau Road area of Belfast – it wasn’t a great time to be living in Belfast back in the...
East Antrim’s Coastal Way goes digital
TWO college students have secured employment after they successfully completed a digital tourism project. Carrickfergus Enterprise worked in partnership with the local tourism industry and Northern Regional College (NRC) to produce an interactive digital tourism map of the newly established East Antrim Coastal Way. NRC Interactive Media students Dylan Rafferty and Phil Smallwood developed the...
Laura Montomery
Role: Senior Director, Market Insight Company: Almac Track Record: Laura Montgomery wanted a career that would allow her to travel and make use of her language skills. Brief outline of your career to date I have worked in this position in Almac for the last 20 months and prior to that I worked as a...
Training for SPACE
A NEW training academy will offer apprentices the chance to improve their skill set and gain on-the-job experience. The Magellan Academy, run by Magellan Aerospace Limited with support from South Eastern Regional College, will offer a bespoke training package suited to the needs of the business and will be delivered at the college’s SPACE building...
Crafting Creativity
CREATIVE industries expert Patricia Van Den Akker will offer specialist training for creative professionals in Northern Ireland who are developing their businesses as part of August Craft Month. Organised by Craft Northern Ireland Patricia will be speaking about Crafting a Brand from 10am to noon and Building Sales Online from 1-4pm on Thursday August 11...
Designs on Success
TWO final year students from Ulster University have been recognised for their pioneering creations at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) Student Design Awards. The global competition challenges young people to tackle real-world social, environmental and economic issues through creative design. With over 900 entries the RSA recognised Sharon Ross and Adam Cheung who will...
Student scientists showcase the future
MORE than 3,500 young people from over 130 schools recently attended Northern Ireland’s largest science fair. At the Sentinus Young Innovators and Big Bang Fair Northern Ireland, hosted at Ulster University, Jordanstown, students showcased their science projects solving real world problems and competed for a variety of prizes including the chance to represent Northern Ireland...
Brazil seeks new NI partnerships
REPRESENTATIVES from Brazilian universities travelled to Belfast recently to link up with their Northern Ireland counterparts. Senior academics from Brazilian’s top universities visited as part of a UK-wide trip to seek out long-term academic partnerships and find out more about our Higher Education Sector. During the trip, organised by the British Council in conjunction with...
Teleperformance Do Their Share To Show They Care
The Teleperformance team in Bangor love to raise money for great causes. In the past seven months alone, they’ve raised an impressive £6,500. This money has been donated to a wide range of local and national charities – from Special Olympics Northern Ireland, to Cash for Kids, the Salvation Army and more. Now, their commitment...