Matt nets prestigious Lucas Love IT award
MATT Johnston from Digital Circle was named as the winner of the ‘Lucas Love IT Award for outstanding contribution to the IT sector’. Receiving multiple award entries from a number of business professionals, organisations, educational institutions and consensus across the judging panel, Matt was presented with the prestigious accolade, at a special awards luncheon...
Students Praised
BELFAST Metropolitan College’s CoderDojo honoured students at a recent prize giving ceremony. CoderDojo is a movement orientated around running free not-for-profit coding clubs which teach young people to learn how to write computer code, develop websites, apps, programs, games and more. Attending the prize giving was the Minister for Employment and Learning, Dr Stephen...
Hike in Paid PHDS
THE number of publicly funded PhD places is set to grow by 60% in Northern Ireland, according to Employment Minister Dr Stephen Farry. An extra 300 such PhD places in areas of economic relevance will be created over the next 36 months. This builds on the existing provision of 495 such places. The additional...
£9m scheme to help young unemployed
A MULTI million pound support package for a range of employment schemes has been announced. The £9million support package will help young people not in education, employment or training (NEET). It aims to equip the most disadvantaged young people with the necessary job skills to move into the labour market and onto the careers...
Award winner Jamie has it all figured out
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER Jamie Graham has been awarded the prestigious HD Mooney Memorial Prize. Sponsored annually by Baker Tilly Mooney Moore, the prize is given to the best overall second year student in Financial Accounting on the BSc Accounting programme at the Ulster Business School, Jordanstown. Joanne Small, Partner at Baker Tilly Mooney Moore,...
Awards celebrate young people’s success
Particpants of the CRAFT employability programme for young people in the North Down area were awarded at a recent ceremony. Presenting the awards at the YMCA in Bangor was Employment and Learning Minister, Dr Stephen Farry. The Minister said: “The focus of this joint pilot initiative is to help young unemployed people in the North...
Take action to save our creative sector
Although a job in the arts can seem like an impossible dream, there is a desperate need for people with the right technical skills, Helen Pozniak explains. So secret is the next major international film being tweaked on a Bournemouth campus that university staff are sworn to secrecy. Even students working alongside aren’t allowed to...
How to write that winning UCAS form
With the first deadline looming in a month, time is running out if you are considering applying for a university place next year. Anne Richardson from the Department for Employment and Learning’s Careers Service has this advice… Deciding to go to university or college and choosing the course and location that is right for you...
What’s it like to study… Astronomy
WHAT’S IT LIKE TO STUDY… ASTRONOMY Samuel Nathan Richards studied a BSc in Astronomy at the University of Hertfordshire WHY would anyone study Astronomy? I think the great, late Carl Sagan said it perfectly, “We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.” It is in this that I cannot remember a time that...
How to… be an Electrician
If you are good with practical work, this could be a great career for you. As an electrician you would fit and repair electrical circuits and wiring. To qualify as an electrician you will need to have industry-recognised training and qualifications. To be an electrician, you should have: -Good practical skills -An ability to follow...