Cash Safeguards Magee Peace-Building Project
A SIX-figure funding injection from the International Fund for Ireland has safeguarded a £3 million peace building initiative at the University of Ulster’s Magee Campus. The announcement will see the peace-building organisation provide almost half of the endowment needed to establish the John Hume and Tip O’Neill Chair in Peace. In November 2011, the Fund...
Queen’s Law Student Wins Global Award
A TRAINEE barrister from Queen’s has beaten off top competition to win a global mediation competition in Chicago. Aidan Hughes, from Portstewart, is completing his barrister training at Queen’s University’s Institute of Professional Legal Studies (IPLS), and claimed first prize at the International Law School Mediation Tournament. He competed against 156 trainee lawyers from around...
Offer Your Skills and Help Out Your Local Community
Do your or someone in your organisation have a passion for the local community? Could you provide a valuable lifeline through offering your skills and expertise by joining the board of a local community or voluntary group? Business in the Community – supported by the Department for Social Development, Arthur Cox Solicitors, and Invest NI...
Student Cut Above Rest Thanks to Laser Training
A Ballymena student has become one of the UK’s youngest trained laser cutting operators, thanks to Northern Regional College’s pioneering Engineering Career Academy. Jordan Hunter has topped off a work placement at Hutchinson AeroTech with an offer of employment from the firm. Hid placement was port of the college’s pioneering Engineering Career Academy, which selects...
Customised Training for Manufacturing Sector
Northern Ireland’s manufacturing SME’s can now benefit from Computer Numerical Control (CNC) training through South Eastern Regional College, thanks to a new customised education programme. The training, funded by the Department of Employment and Learning’s Skills Solution Customised Training Programme, is designed to upskill operators and uses equipment to focus on the operation and programming...
Nursing Jobs Fair
AN upcoming recruitment event aims to highlight the opportunities available overseas for newly qualified nurses and midwives. Attending the Skills4Nurses Annual Nursing & Midwifery Recruitment Show will be healthcare employers from Australia and Dubai as well as from NHS trusts across England and Scotland. A spokesperson for Skills4Nurses said: “Presently there are so few jobs...
Science Support
Minister for Employment and Learning Stephan Farry has launched The Open University’s Postgraduate Science Student Support Team. There are groups of staff from across the university who support students in a particular area of the curriculum. Each team is made up of academics, educational advisers and other staff with subject-specific expertise. Mr Farry said; “Science...
R&D New Co-Chair
DR Rosemary Hamilton is the new Northern Ireland co-chair to the US-Ireland R&D Partnership Steering Group. The announcement follows a recent visit to Dublin and Belfast by the US co-chair to the Steering Group, DR Kerri-Ann Jones, Assistant Secretary of State for the United States Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs. Dr...
£30k Harbour Investment to Boost Training
BELFAST Harbour has announced a £30,000 investment in a new training initiative to boost young people’s employment prospects. Launched in conjunction with Belfast Metropolitan College, The Commissioners’ Programme will create at least 30 new apprenticeship and other training positions in a range of sectors within the Harbour Estate over the next three years. The harbour...
Scheme Hails Diversity In The Workplace
THE Rainbow Project has launched a workplace first with a new diversity and inclusion employment programme, Diversity Champions NI. This is the first and only programme to be introduced for the public and private sector across Northern Ireland and will allow organisations to be recognised as having robust equality and diversity policies and practices. This...