Lord Caine Visits Lisburn Campus

Northern Ireland Office Undersecretary Lord Caine visited SERC’s Lisburn Campus recently where he toured the facilities and met staff and students.

Lord Caine heard how SERC works to support economic growth by supplying the skills pipeline through delivering vocational qualifications backed up by the development of employability attributes and solid work experience.  He chatted to award-winning students and heard how SERC is developing a specialist Zero Carbon Centre for upskilling workers in green technologies.

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Marija  Kuzaite, Level 3 Patisserie and Confectionery, (left) shows her gold medal winning creation which came first in the UK Worldskills Competition this year to Lord Caine, and fellow student Anna Davison at the SERC Lisburn Campus.

Aurla McLoughlin, Lord Caine and Level 3 IT students Finley Houston (Finnis) and Parsa Teri (Carryduff) who founded the SERC student company Future Focus Technologies, which aims to divert discarded mobile phones from landfill by repurposing them as games modules.

Lord Caine (right) meets Dr Michael Malone, Heather McKee, Catherine Shipman and Anna Leahy.

Tutor Paul Henry shows Lord Caine the latest heat-pump technology and outlines the development SERC’s zero carbon centre, a planned hub for training in green technologies.

Lord Caine (right) meets second year Access to University students (l-r) Adele Armstrong, Gemma Bradford, Christina Ryder and Bronagh McGeough at Lisburn Campus.