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To celebrate the development of Northern Ireland’s first ever Retail Foundation Degree, launched in January 2010, students involved in the innovative development were given a masterclass on the future of the sector by Hugh Black, Manager of the jewel in Belfast’s retail crown, Victoria Square.
The event was organized by fdf (Foundation Degree Forward) in partnership [...]

Brendan Smyth, Northern Ireland Development Director at CyberSource, welcomes Michael Walsh, CEO of CyberSource Corporation and Mike Orlando, Senior Vice President of Sales at CyberSource Corporation, to Belfast. Michael Walsh took over as CEO of CyberSource, a leading provider of electronic payment and risk management solutions, at the beginning of 2010. The visit follows the [...]

The countdown is on for runners of all capabilities to sign up for the new-look 2010 Titanic Quarter 10K – the official warm-up race for the Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon.
Dubbed the ‘City Run with a View’, the event will live up to this title more than ever this year with a new starting point [...]

Northern Ireland’s Further Education colleges, providing higher education, are participating in a masterclass on how to develop effective and sustainable partnerships with employers during a week-long series of seminars launched in Belfast today by fdf (Foundation Degree Forward).
Vice Principals, Deans, Heads of School and Business Development Managers will be amongst the regional college staff who [...]

Cool FM DJ and Northern Ireland celebrity Pete Snodden is urging local runners of all capabilities to join him in running the 2010 Titanic Quarter 10K – the official warm-up race for the Deep RiverRock Belfast City Marathon.
The Cool FM breakfast show host has vowed to get fit and lose weight ahead of his 30th [...]

Shadow Secretary of State, Owen Paterson MP, was in Belfast today to meet with Trevor Carson, Director of the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA NI). The discussion focused on the need to redress the balance between the public and private sector in Northern Ireland and how some of LSDA’s flagship programmes are seeking to [...]

The DEL Minister, Sir Reg Empey, and Invest NI Chief Executive Alastair Hamilton have given their backing to the ‘Come Back to Your Future’ campaign which will operate in Northern Ireland airports encouraging ex-pats who are home for Christmas to consider a career back home.
The campaign, which is run by leading executive search consultancy Clarendon [...]

Ireland’s largest single concrete pour to date has taken place, marking a significant milestone in construction work on the £97m Titanic Signature Project at Belfast’s Titanic Quarter. 
Developers Harcourt Construction carried out the pour, which saw 4,200 cubic metres of concrete laid 8m below ground level across an area of 3,800 square metres near the slipway [...]

Stakeholder Communications, the Northern Ireland-headquartered public relations company, has announced details of an expansion into Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). 
The company, which already has offices in Belfast, London, Dublin and Newry, is joining forces with  Saudi PR firm ‘F&F Public Relations’ which is co-founded by a member of the Saudi Royal Family, [...]

Northern Ireland Shadow Secretary of State, Owen Paterson MP, with Northern Ireland Independent Retail Trade Association (NIIRTA) Chief Executive, Glyn Roberts, and Stakeholder Communications Chief Executive, Tom Kelly, at the Northern Ireland Reception at the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester