Financial Course
BUSINESSES looking to skill up in the area of financial management should sign up for the latest course to be hosted by Belfast City Council. The Business of Finance Programme is open to 15 small businesses or social enterprises in the city with less than 20 employees and will offer a financial health check and...
More Going Abroad
MIGRATION experts are warning that more middle-class families are leaving the UK for a better quality of life abroad. Paul Arthur, director of The Emigration Group said: “People can see a way of life in Australia or New Zealand that can’t be achieved in the UK and this is reason enough to up sticks”. For more...
100 Jobs Through Derry’s City Of Culture Year
A £1 MILLION programme for smaller businesses planned by Derry City Council is expected to create around 100 new jobs next year during the City of Culture event. Invest Northern Ireland has offered over £700,000 of support towards the project which is also being funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the Sustainable Competitiveness...
East Belfast Now On A Mission To Create Jobs
EAST Belfast Mission, recently named the UK Social Enterprise of the Year, is creating 21 new full time positions with support from Invest Northern Ireland’s Jobs Fund. The community development organisation has opened a childcare nursery and relocated its café to its new Skainos building on the Newtownards Road where 17 of the 21 jobs...
Trust The Prince To Support Retail
THE Prince’s Trust’s Get Into Retail programme has secured employment for 11 young people thanks to a joint programme with a high street retailer. Fully funded and supported by TK Maxx this four week project, delivered in partnership with People 1st, has been specifically tailored to give unemployed 16-to-25-year-olds the confidence, skills and training to...
Hundreds To Be Helped By Job Scheme
OVER 300 unemployed people in East and South Belfast will benefit from a new job skills programme. Launched by the First Minister, participants in the ’Rapid Impact Programme’ will benefit from gaining new skills, training and work experience opportunities and a guaranteed job interview at the end of their placement. Welcoming the initiative Peter Robinson...
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...
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...