Students from low income homes urged to sign up for university scholarship
Stormont minister are urging students to apply for scholarship opportunities. Employment and Learning Minister, Dr Stephen Farry and Education Minister, John O’Dowd were speaking at the launch of the All Ireland Scholarships for 2012. The annual scholarships, funded by businessman JP McManus and now in their fourth year, provide financial assistance to top-performing students from...
School delighted to win award for course of year
Outstanding employability has contributed to the Ulster Business School’s MSc/Grad ICSA in Management and Corporate Governance course being named Postgraduate Course of the Year at the 2012 Gradireland Awards in Dublin. Since 2009, over 80 per cent of its students each year have obtained graduate level roles in relevant professional areas despite the continued downturn...
Unique software course to attract global investors
Queen’s University is hoping to attract investors to Northern Ireland through the launch of a new software developers’ course. The MSc in Software Development at the School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, which was launched recently by the Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment at Queen’s, offers 60 places and is open to...
Students ‘must be strategic to thrive’
Accountancy graduates must be strategic in the ‘milk round’ process to secure training places, according to a leading Northern Ireland accountancy and business advisory firm. BDO audit director Laura Jackson, who plays a key role in the selection of the firm’s graduate intake, warned that candidates should not approach this recruitment process as a last...
Students ‘must be strategic to thrive’
Accountancy graduates must be strategic in the ‘milk round’ process to secure training places, according to a leading Northern Ireland accountancy and business advisory firm. BDO audit director Laura Jackson, who plays a key role in the selection of the firm’s graduate intake, warned that candidates should not approach this recruitment process as a last...
Higher education vital says Farry
Employment and Learning Minister, Dr Stephen Farry has stressed the importance of higher level qualifications when it comes to securing employment. He was addressing representatives from the National Union of Students and the Union of Students in Ireland (NUS-USI) at their annual conference in Fermanagh recently. “The Northern Ireland Skills Strategy which I launched last...
Students celebrate achieving the Mex-imum returns for their effort
Students from across Belfast have been celebrating after successfully running a business for a day last month and raising money for charity in the process. The budding entrepreneurs took part in the Mex-imum Business Challenge, a student enterprise initiative organised by Belfast City Council with the support of Belfast Metropolitan College, Queen`s University, the University...
The American dream awaits….
A Newtownabbey student was hired on the spot recently when he attended a recruitment fair for a US summer camp. Andrew Cass, 20, from Jordanstown, travelled to Manchester for the event and nailed the job there and then as a camp counsellor during his summer 2012 holidays. Andrew, who is currently studying medicine at Queen’s...
First five retail graduates trading by degrees
Five retail staff have become the first to graduate with a the new Foundation Degree in Retailing. Led by the Northern Regional College it’s part of a work-based initiative, it aims to help retail companies build the skills of their staff and equip them to meet the challenges of the ever changing retail environment in...
College lecturers don’t clam up … seafood training was ‘inspiring’
Seafood was on the curriculum at the Northern regional College recently when catering lecturers sent themselves on some work experience. Hospitality and catering lecturers Edith Irwin, from Ballymoney campus, and Maude Fulton, from Ballymena campus, donned their chef’s whites at Belfast’s Mourne Seafood Bar. Working alongside head chef Andy Rea the lecturers spent a week...