Older Workers Scheme Brings Almost 60 Jobs
ALMOST 60 jobs have been created thanks to a new scheme to get older people back into employment. The £6m employment initiative Step Ahead 50+ aims to support 1,100 unemployed people aged 50 or over into work over the next three years. Step Ahead 50+ which has been funded by the Executive as part of...
Pizzeria Goes East
TWENTY-five jobs are to be created with the opening of a new pizzeria in east Belfast. Greens Pizza will open a second premises on the Upper Newtownards Road at the end of the month. Business partners Manus McConn and William Clark opened their first restaurant in 1995 on the Lisburn Road, which was highly commended...
Leadership Skills Key To Business Success
INNOVATIVE leadership is the key to business success. That was the message at Invest NI’s Leadership Experience event as it encouraged business people to embrace the importance of effective leadership as they focus on growing business success. Speaking at the event Invest NI’s Executive Director, Business Solutions, Tracy Meharg said: “Research clearly indicates that good...
NI’s Poorest Students Caught In Digital Divide
THE ‘digital divide’ could be widening Northern Ireland’s qualifications attainment gap, it’s been claimed. Avril Hall Callaghan, General Secretary of the Ulster Teachers’ Union, was responding to new findings which show that over a third of the UK’s poorest students do not have the internet at home and a similar number do not have a...
Engineering Professor Uses Networking Skills To Land A Place On Top Government Committee
UNIVERSITY of Ulster academic, Professor Gerard Parr, has been invited onto a prestigious UK government committee. His appointment to the Strategic Advisory Team of the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) acknowledges a distinguished academic career. Selected from across the UK scientific and industrial community the committee identifies priorities for research and early...
Engineering Firm To Create 38 New Posts
A NEW engineering company is to create over 30 jobs. Blackrock Manufacturing Ltd will create 38 new jobs and has been set up in Coalisland by Pat O’Neill, the founder of equipment manufacturing company, Powerscreen. Making the announcement, Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster revealed that the County Tyrone company had been established with support from Invest...
30 Builders To Fly The Flag For Green Technologies
CITB-ConstructionSkills NI is recruiting now for an innovative overseas project. The Building Skills for Sustainable Construction project will train 30 local construction workers in sustainable construction in Germany, which has one of the world’s greenest economies. It will help participants widen their knowledge of sustainable construction methods, renewable energy and environmental standards. CITB-ConstructionSkills NI chief...
Global Links Vital For Future Employability
FORGING links between local students and international employers will enhance skills and future employability. That was the message as Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry welcomed 250 delegates from over 85 countries to the first International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (Iaeste) annual conference to be held in Northern Ireland....
CITB Appointments
THE Minister for Employment and Learning, Dr Stephen Farry, has announced the appointment of three new board members to CITB-ConstructionSkills NI. Ciaran Brolly is currently manager of UCATT’s (Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians) Building Learning project in Northern Ireland (NI), which seeks to address the issues of upskilling in the construction industry. Maire...
Business on course
A POSTGRADUATE business course at the University of Ulster’s Magee campus has provided a launch pad for an enterprising young businesswoman. The Masters in Business Studies (MBS), is helping Anna Ni Bhroin, an Irish language journalist and mum of two young children from Sligo, launch an innovative Irish music and language company. Anna, whose husband...