A Canadian-based student who completed a tour guiding course at Northern Regional College has qualified as an OCN-accredited tour guide. Alison Balzer, originally from Bangor in County Down, emigrated to Vancouver with her family when she was just eight years old. Now living in Nova Scotia, like thousands of diaspora scattered around the world, Alison is passionate about her Celtic roots and wants to share her passion with others.
Continue ReadingFree Training Programmes for Hospitality and Tourism Managers at Northern Regional College
Thursday
15th April 2021
Northern Regional College, in partnership with the other five Further Education Colleges in Northern Ireland, is offering a series of free training programmes for managers in the hospitality and tourism sector. The Department for the Economy funded Hospitality and Tourism Recovery Training Programme is designed to address the key challenges facing the sector as it moves out of lockdown and prepares to resume operations. The training is aimed managers and technical specialists of all levels and will include Management webinars and Technical masterclasses.
Continue ReadingApprenticeship Recovery Package extended to 31st March 2022
Wednesday
14th April 2021
The Department for the Economy (DfE) funded Apprenticeship Recovery Package has been extended until 31st March 2022. The package was introduced to help local businesses recover from the impact of the COVID-19 crisis by providing financial assistance to support the return and retention of furloughed apprentices, as well as the recruitment of new apprentices.
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A Canadian based student who completed a Tour Guiding course at Northern Regional College has qualified as an OCN accredited tour guide. Alison Balzer, who is originally from Bangor in County Down, emigrated to Vancouver with her family when she was eight years old. Now living in Nova Scotia, like thousands of diaspora scattered around the world, Alison is passionate about her Celtic roots and wants to share her passion with others.
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Twenty years after leaving school, a County Antrim mum of two returned to full-time education at Northern Regional College in Ballymena to do a Foundation Degree. Alison Kyle from Cullybackey had a long-term career goal of working in health and social care and with her two young children at school, she felt ready to enrol on the Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care at the College.
Continue ReadingNRC Partners With Northern Trust And Cedar Foundation To Put Students’ Needs First
Thursday
25th March 2021
A strong partnership between Northern Regional College and the Northern Health and Social Care Trust has allowed a young student to pursue an education at the College’s Magherafelt campus. Twenty-year-old Laura Chaney from Moneyglass has profound physical needs: she has cerebral palsy and uses a manual wheelchair; she has no speech and is PEG fed. Stephen McCartney, Head of Section of The College’s Student Services team, explained how the College had worked in close collaboration with the Trust to get a suitable care and support package in place for Laura before her Transition2College course got underway in September 2020.
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