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SPECIAL PROJECTS & INITIATIVES

 

 

 

Is your company facing the possibility of making staff redundant or having to redeploy staff?

 

Lead by South Eastern Regional College, the Further Education sector in Northern Ireland has launched an initiative in response to the recession, in an effort to support businesses which are facing redundancies. 

  

The Department for Employment and Learning, has invested in this initiative, bringing together the combined resources of the six Further Education Colleges to help businesses survive in the current economic climate. 

 

The sector wide project will provide services that are free or heavily subsidised including business audits, training and advice.  Trainers and advisors will also work with individuals who have been re-deployed to new jobs within a business and require up-skilling and re-skilling. 

 

 Equally staff facing redundancy will be coached in job search skills and training needs.  The programme will support the work of the six Workforce Development Forums and utilise the range of services provided by careers advice service, jobs and benefits offices and enterprise agencies.

 

For further information view this video Rapid Response Programme.mov

or contact us on 0800 1422 855 or email info@RapidResponseNI.co.uk

CONNECTED PROJECT

 

The FE/HE Connected Project has been established to create links between the Further Education sector and universities for the benefit of industry.  Some key developments in this project to date include:

 

Introduction of the first Polymer Apprenticeship Programme in NI along with Boomer Industries, Queen’s University and the NI Polymer Association.

 

The development of Northern Ireland’s first passive house, a house which is built to have no or little impact on the environment.  The project will be developed in partnership between South Eastern Regional College, University of Ulster, the NI Energy Agency, NIE, NIHE and developers, JC Enterprises, NLM and SAKRET NI.

 

Links between the University of Ulster and SERC have been extended to Austria leading to student placements there.