Bill Watson
Role: Curriculum Manager Company: Northern Regional College & Career Academy Programme Track Record: “The biggest challenge is dealing with the volume of work in a very forward thinking and dynamic engineering department and accommodating the demands of both students and industry,” said Bill. What does your job entail? As a curriculum manager I co-ordinate the...
Construction Book Helps Pupils Build For The Future
CITB-ConstructionSkills NI has launched a new textbook to support the delivery of the GCSE qualification in construction and the built environment. The subject has been developed by Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessments to give students a realistic understanding and experience of construction to enable them to develop an authentic working relationship with the...
Top Chef Gets A Taste Of Belfast Met’s Cookery Course
DOUBLE Michelin-starred chef, Tom Kerridge, dropped into Belfast Metropolitan College to visit up and coming chefs on a recent trip to Northern Ireland. Tom, who’s now starring in his first TV show, Proper Pub Food on BBC 2, was joined on the visit by one of his chefs, former Belfast Met student Andrew Provan. Former...
How To… Create An Alluring Covering Letter
ENTICE THEM TO ASK FOR MORE THE main aim of a covering letter is to encourage recruiters to read your CV. While a CV sets out the skills and experience you have, the covering letter more explicitly demonstrates your understanding of the employing organisation and nature of the job being advertised. A covering letter gives...
Unity 3D Training
SOUTH West College, in conjunction with Digital Circle, is hosting Unity 3D training sessions across Northern Ireland. Unity 3D is a powerful game engine that can be used for a range of purposes including the development of e-learning experiences, interactive software applications and computer games. For information, please contact Carol Viney or Paul McGovern at...
NWRC Is Awarded
NORTH West Regional College has earned the first ever Skills for Health Quality Mark in Northern Ireland thanks to their health & social care training which provides participants with essential qualifications for the workplace. Skills for Health is the employer-led authority on work force development and is the UK Sector Skills Council for Health. Achievement...
Caterpillar Jobs
A MULTI-million pound investment will help create 100 high end manufacturing jobs. Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster and Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Farry have welcomed the news that US engineering firm Caterpillar is investing over £7m in the major manufacturing project. Part of the investment will focus on skills development to facilitate the manufacturing positions...
Volunteering ‘is good for your health’
A UNIVERSITY of Ulster study has emphasised the positive mental and physical impacts of volunteering. The results of the three year research study into the activities of older people who volunteer for charity work, found participants displayed modest improvements in physical health and stability in their mental health scores. Conducted by the University of Ulster,...
How To… Provide A Reference
Ensuring Your References Will Help You RODGER Gilpin, a partner at Gilpin Executive Search gives his advice on choosing references. When filling out application forms, people tend to focus more on previous experience, skills and qualifications, but spend little time deciding who their references should be. Many employers consider reference checks an important part of...
Training Academy Celebrates As Initial Intake Of Graduates Make The Grade
A TRAINING academy has celebrated its first batch of successful graduates. Seventeen students successfully completed the Deloitte Analytics Training Academy (DATA) and have graduated with the skills and accredited qualifications identified by Deloitte for new job opportunities in their Belfast office. DATA is a Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) initiative involving a nine week...