Scheme For Youth
EMPLOYMENT and Learning Minister Stephen Farry is urging Northern Ireland businesses to support his Youth Employment Scheme. He said the Youth Employment Scheme was a £31m package offering over 1,000 employers subsidies of £5,750 a year to help young people gain work experience. By taking part the minister said employers could help rebuild the economy.
Skills Hub Project
SKILLS Exchange UK is to launch its first ever Skills Hub in Ballymena. The project will enable employers to facilitate the secondment of highly skilled members of staff to other organisations and small-medium enterprises (SMEs) in the surrounding area. This will allow smaller SMEs and others in the area to benefit from the skills exchange...
Henderson Group Keeps It In The Family With Awards
THE Henderson Group has been named ‘Employer of the Year’ and honoured with two other best places to work awards. The family-owned company, owners of the Spar, Eurospar, Vivo and Vivoxtra franchises in Northern Ireland, is proving it is leading the pack in terms of its commitment to nurturing and developing staff plus creating local...
Colleges ‘Leading Way To Jobs And Prosperity’
NORTHERN Ireland’s further education sector is leading the way to jobs and prosperity, according to a prominent educationalist. Malachy McAleer, director at South West College, was speaking at the launch of Northern Ireland’s first Higher Level ICT Apprenticeship programme at the Enniskillen Image Centre. The pilot programme, funded by the Department for Employment and Learning,...
Language Of Learning
LANGUAGE provision must be boosted if Northern Ireland businesses are to succeed in the future, according to NUSUSI President Adrianne Peltz. Her comments come following the publication of a recent study by the British Council which said Northern Ireland ‘was a long way’ from being self-sufficient in producing linguists in the languages likely to be...
Expansion Nets 45 New Jobs For IT Firm
OVER 40 new jobs have been created at IT software and services company Equiniti ICS. Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster announced the Belfast-based company is creating 45 new jobs with the support of Invest Northern Ireland’s Jobs Fund. The new jobs are part of an overall expansion plan that will see the company’s HR and payroll...
How to… Get A Second Job
MORE and more people are subsidising their income by taking on a part-time, second job. A second job can provide the income to make ends meet, jump start an emergency savings account or help reduce or eliminate debt. This could be evening or weekend work or even work you do from your own home. There...
New Links For UU
TRANSLINK Group chief executive Catherine Mason has been appointed a Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster. She has been appointed by the School of the Built Environment and will be passing on to students her expertise in tackling public transport challenges and growing and developing passenger transport. Catherine has held the Translink post since...
SERC’s Golden Girl
SERC student Wendi Magee has won a gold medal in reflexology at the 2012 Worldskills competition. She was part of a successful team which competed recently at the event in Birmingham, securing a medal haul including two golds and a bronze. It proved a double success for SERC’s reflexology team at the competition, with Wendi...
Maths Skills All Add Up To Broadening Job Options
AN innovative initiative has been highlighting the importance for the workforce and the economy of up-skilling in maths. Invest Northern Ireland recently joined with Queen’s University Belfast to host the Focus On Maths: From School To Work event for representatives from business and academia along with principals and maths teachers from around Northern Ireland. The...