Start-Up Event
LOCAL entrepreneurs or people planning to start their own business will get essential help and guidance, thanks to a onestop shop event in the City Hall tomorrow. Start Up Belfast is a free event providing tailored business advice and informative exhibition stands from business support organisations and banks across Belfast and Northern Ireland. The Log...
Course Accredited
THE Ulster Sports Academy at the University of Ulster is celebrating the accreditation of its MSc in sport and exercise psychology by the British Psychological Society. This prestigious recognition by the professional body for psychology is a ringing endorsement for a programme which has grown in popularity and continues to attract high calibre graduates interested...
Scheme aims to unlock business potential
A major cross-community, cross-border business programme is helping build the business acumen of tomorrow’s young entrepreneurs. The Knowledge through Enterprise for Youth (KEY) Programme recently brought together young people from 78 Northern Ireland schools who celebrated their graduation from the scheme. The scheme aims to develop enterprise and entrepreneurial skills and enhance the young people’s...
Tasting Success
Over 60 catering students from Northern Regional College will be brewing up a storm at an afternoon tea competition being organised by Belfast’s Fitzwilliam Hotel. The winner will have their dessert or pastry featured on the menu and enjoyed by hotel patrons. By working closely with Paula McIntyre, local food connoisseur and chef lecturer at...
How to… Search for a new job
Looking for a new job is time consuming and can become a job in itself, however with forward planning and good organisation you could land a new career quicker than you think. Practical ways of searching for a new job: Understand and review your skills We gain many new skills throughout our working lives, which...
LGBT Guide
The Department of Justice has launched its first Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Awareness Guide for staff. Following on from guides on disability awareness and the needs of carers, today’s guide focuses on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) wwareness. A fourth guide, on black and ethnic einorities, will be published later this year....
Uni Appointment
Eminent biochemist Dr David Gibson has been appointed lecturer in stratified medicine at the University of Ulster. He will be based at C-TRIC, (Clinical Translational Research and Innovation Centre) at the Altnagelvin Hospital campus in Derry~Londonderry. With a particular interest in biomarker discovery, ‘personalised medicine’ and point of care technologies, Dr Gibson will manage research...
Lizzie’s first class as she takes home prestigious teaching gong
A lecturer at South Eastern Regional College has been named the Further Education Teacher of the Year. Newtownards based Lizzie Buick won the Pearson Teaching Award and now goes forward for the UK FE Teacher of the Year this autumn. The awards are an annual celebration of exceptional teachers and teaching, founded in 1999 by...
Nine apprentices to test skills on the world stage
Nine talented young people from Northern Ireland are counting down the days to the WorldSkills 2013 in July. WorldSkills, the skills equivalent of the Olympics, is the largest international vocational competition of its kind and will be held in Leipzig, Germany from July 4-7 this year. The local apprentices will join 30 others from the...
Youth service aims to help 160 jobless
A new youth service will allow 160 young people to engage with further education and training and gain sustainable employment. The ‘NOW and Stepping Stones Youth Service’, funded under the Collaboration and Innovation Fund, is one of a number of the new initiatives funded by the Department for Employment and Learning to ensure the successful...