Graduated – what next?
As most final year students are getting ready to wave goodbye to university, having finished final exams and submitted dissertations, thoughts turn to the next step. Should they shun responsibility for another year and go travelling? Or is it best to knuckle down and take that first step on the career ladder? Con Lam from...
Double win for hospitality graduates
TWO graduates from the Ulster University are celebrating success after winning double awards each at the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management Awards. Sandra Wojcik won the Hastings Hotels Award for Excellence in Irish Hospitality and the Da Vinci Cup while Coleraine graduate Natasha McClelland, who previously attended Northern Regional College, took the Consumer Council...
Achieving Your Career Goals
WHETHER you are looking to move up in your current company or wanting to make a career change, there are a few hints and tips you can follow to make sure you do not get overlooked. PUT YOURSELF IN LINE FOR A PROMOTION Make your commitment to the company clear and express an interest in...
Students graduate with skills to be IT security experts
TWELVE students of the WhiteHat Security IT Training Academy have received their graduation certificates from the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL). The five week IT Academy, delivered through DEL’s Assured Skills initiative, trained the students in specialist IT skills identified by WhiteHat Security for specialist Dynamic Application Security Assessment (DAST) roles within the company....
New Graduates Set To Undertake Training Modules and Work Placements with Moy Park
NINETEEN new graduates are set to undertake a series of training modules and work placements with Moy Park. The company’s Graduate Development Programme for 2015/16 was launched at an event in Newcastle’s Burrendale Hotel, where graduates were welcomed to the company by Moy Park Chief Executive Janet McCollum and heard from Moy Park’s HR Director...
New PwC Academy Graduates Take a Bow
SIXTEEN graduates have successfully completed the second PwC Data Analytics Academy. The academy provides graduates with the skills and experience required to take up opportunities in PwC’s new and rapidly growing Data Analytics team. Designed by the Department for Employment and Learning (DEL), PwC and Belfast Metropolitan College (Belfast Met) under the Assured Skills initiative,...
Exceptional students win tuition fees
FIVE Northern Ireland students will have their tuition fees paid for the duration of their undergraduate degree thanks to Queen’s University, Belfast. This is the third year of the Queen’s Scholar scheme in which each school or college across Northern Ireland was asked to nominate pupils who could demonstrate exceptional achievements outside academic life, whether in sport, music and the arts, business and enterprise or through community work, with a...
Jackson family thrilled with degrees
A HUSBAND and wife who both returned to study have graduated from South Eastern Regional College (SERC). Nigel Jackson, 55, and his wife, Marion, 48, from Lisburn attended evening classes at SERC to study for the Liverpool John Moore’s BA honours Business Studies degree. The couple had to juggle studying at SERC with work and...
Kyle continues to build on success with BTEC award
A student from South Eastern Regional College has been named Outstanding BTEC Construction Student of the Year for 2015 at the National BTEC Awards. Kyle McKee scooped the honour in a competition which celebrates achievement in the country’s most widely taken vocational qualification. Kyle has a distinction-level BTEC Subsidiary Diploma in construction from South Eastern...
Students are praised after completing training course
Fourteen students have received their certificates after completing the Eishtec Training Academy. Following the announcement that Eishtec UK Ltd was creating 320 jobs in Northern Ireland, the three week Training Academy was designed by DEL, Eishtec UK Ltd and Southern Regional College (SRC) under the Assured Skills initiative, to prepare the successful students to compete...