Skills on show
NORTHERN Ireland’s most talented apprentices, employees and learners are competing for places on Team UK for the next World Skills competition. Employment and Learning Minister Stephen Farry congratulated the 20-string Northern Ireland squad of UK trainees during a visit to the Skills Show at the NEC in Birmingham. Commending the trainees who will now...
Top Law Award
A UNIVERSITY of Ulster student has been awarded the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission Prize for the best dissertation submitted in 2012. Ruby Moshenska, a student on the LLM in human rights law and transitional justice programme at the Transitional Justice Institute (TJI) was honoured for her study into the political and symbolic significance of...
Support Ability
NORTHERN Ireland’s student movement is urging the Executive to ensure the extra student places it announced recently for STEM subjects should go to those who have the ability – not just the financial means to study for a degree. NUS-USI President Adrianne Peltz was speaking following the announcement of £200m investment raising the number of...
Budding chef gets sweet taste of success after landing coveted job at top restaurant
AN aspiring chef from Co Down has taken his first steps on the ladder of fine dining thanks to impressive exam results. South Eastern Regional College student chef Ciaran Taggart from Castlewellan achieved an impressive five distinction stars in his level two Professional Cookery at the South Eastern Regional College and has secured a job...
Skills are the key to empowering workforce, says Minister
SKILLING up the workforce must be at the centre of any drive to capitalise on opportunities during Derry’s City of Culture year in 2013, according to Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry. He was addressing delegates at the fifth Golden Bridges Conference in Boston where the theme centred around ‘Community, Culture and Commerce’ and...
Ambitious family kitchen firm creates 23 new jobs
A NORTH Antrim kitchen manufacturer is creating 23 news jobs with the aim of doubling its turnover in three years. Rasharkin-based company Woodland Kitchens is investing almost three-quarters of a million pounds in its 65,000sqft facility, with InvestNI coming in with £130,000. The company designs and manufactures a range of cabinets for the kitchen, bedroom...
£900k boost for Queen’s engineers
QUEEN’S University has been awarded £900,000 to help turn science into jobs. The money, awarded by the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, will boost the Northern Ireland engineering sector by helping the university create more successful companies, grow industrial collaboration and foster entrepreneurship. It is part of a £60m total investment spread across 31 UK universities...
How to be a… Speech and Language Therapist
There are many roads into speech and language therapy. Some choose to study an under-graduate course, straight after their A Levels, others study post-graduate and some return as mature students. South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust Speech and Language Therapist, Leigh McGowan initially attained a degree in psychology and began working in the...
Going for gold at home and scientific success abroad
QUEEN’S QUEEN’S University is this week exploring alternative funding options for local companies. The University’s successful venture spin-out company, QUBIS Ltd, and The Chief Executives’ Club at Queen’s, have organised the ‘Why settle for Bronze, when the Gold is out there?’ event to allow business leaders to learn from funding specialists, and each other, about...
BT recruits engineering apprentices
Thirteen new engineering apprentices have been recruited by BT in Northern Ireland. The successful applicants join a skilled engineering workforce responsible for growing and maintaining the network infrastructure that delivers broadband, data and voice services for Northern Ireland homes, businesses and public services. The latest intake of apprentices, ranging in age from 18 to 30,...