Following on from the successful six STEM supplements over the last 3 years both in the Belfast Telegraph in September 2013, 2014, 2015 and the Irish News & News Letter February 2014, 2015, 2016, Catalyst Inc (formerly the Northern Ireland Science Park) in partnership with Matrix, the NI Science Panel, [...]
Do you have a great idea for using open data to develop a teaching resource or tool? The OpenDataNI Challenge offers the chance of winning £20,000 to make it happen. The competition, which is jointly funded by the Department of Finance and the Department for the Economy on behalf of the Northern Ireland Digital [...]
Queen’s University Belfast has been awarded Northern Ireland’s first Regius Professorship by Her Majesty The Queen. The title of Regius Professorship recognises exceptionally high quality research at an institution. Only 14 have been granted since the reign of Queen Victoria, including 12 to mark Her Majesty the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. [...]
A unique partnership between industry, government and research has resulted in a group of engineers receiving specialist training that will enhance Northern Ireland’s skills base in hard metal machining. NIACE, the Northern Ireland Advanced Composite and Engineering Centre, based in Belfast, has formed a strategic partnership with Mills CNC, and [...]
St Patrick’s High School, Keady, County Armagh has won the award for ‘Best Northern Ireland School’ as well as ‘BT Northern Ireland Best Project’. Their project, entitled ‘Power Down to Power Up’, was entered in the Social & Behavioural Sciences category at junior level and the group also received 2nd [...]
When Gerry McNally says that the statistics around the polymers industry in Northern Ireland are impressive, he’s guilty of some understatement. And that’s not typical of the man. When it comes to enthusiasm for a chosen sector, McNally (Director of the NI Polymers Association) is a man with a passion for the business he’s [...]
MATRIX Chair Bryan Keating has been talking to Wendy Austin about apprenticeships in Northern Ireland and how his new role as Chair of the Strategic Advisory Forum on Apprenticeships is helping to shape the workforce to meet current and future economic requirements. A few years ago apprenticeships were in the [...]
The Northern Ireland Polymers Association (NIPA) is one of 5 organisations chosen to test new ways to develop skills for innovation in manufacturing. NIPA, in conjunction with CITB Northern Ireland, is collaborating to develop innovation skills between the polymers and construction industries in Northern Ireland. Both industries have complementary skillsets [...]
The latest Northern Ireland A Level results have shown a marked rise overall in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) subjects since 2004. We wanted to see whether this was part of a longer term trend, so we asked CCEA if they could provide us with figures for the last [...]
Twenty-two international students from 15 different countries have been welcomed to Northern Ireland at a reception held at Riddel Hall, Queen’s University Belfast, yesterday. Hailing from countries as diverse as Slovenia, Brazil and the United States, they’re here as part of the global exchange scheme IAESTE, (the International Association for [...]
Colleges NI officially unveiled Further Education’s top innovators on the 27th May and rewarded them for coming up with a raft of exciting new projects linked to Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). A range of prizes and awards were presented at the Business & Education Through Skills & Training (BEST) [...]
The STEM Charter for Business and the North West STEM Employers’ Equality Network were launched in the City Hotel in Derry~Londonderry on 29th April. Among the attendees were representatives from the food, information technology and engineering sectors of STEM business as well as delivery partners from education and careers guidance. [...]