Posted: February 18, 2013
“Shipping and other companies from the Middle East and beyond will be sending more workers for expert training in Cork over the next year.
By Niall Murray, Education Correspondent
The National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI), part of Cork Institute of Technology, has facilities among the world’s best for training new and experienced workers in the shipping industry.
Among the 72 graduates of NMCI whose awards were conferred yesterday were a number from the Seychelles who have completed marine and plant engineering degrees.
The college opened in 2004 as the country’s first third-level public private partnership, and works closely with the Irish Naval Service whose national base is alongside its Ringaskiddy location.
The commercial arm of the college and associated companies have been offering training since 2010 on the hi-spec equipment, with particular interest from shipping and related companies from the Gulf region.
Further expansion of training and consultancy services to places such as United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, and Malaysia is planned in the year ahead, in line with more research and commercial training being planned.
“The short specialist courses we run here have been bringing in people from transport in the oil and gas sectors, people in big ports and other related areas,” said CIT’s vice-president for development Michael Delaney.
“We also help train people who will teach their colleagues back at home and offer a certain amount of follow-up training where their companies are located, it could be the Middle East or elsewhere.”
As well as the training jobs in the college on its equipment, which includes a simulator that allows students navigate super-tankers into any port in the world, employment is supported in connected local industry. Cork and Irish companies are developing software and machinery based on the needs of the merchant shipping industry, while training in its use can then be provided at the NMCI or overseas.
There are now 10 full-time research jobs at NMCI, and CIT president Brendan Murphy told graduates that expanding the research and training roles there are key to the college’s continued success.
The ceremony yesterday also saw masters degrees awarded to 12 graduates of CIT’s Crawford College of Art & Design.”
Picture: At the National Maritime College of Ireland conferrings, Ringaskiddy, Cork, Bachelor of Science in nautical science graduate Jean Paul, from the Seychelles, presents flowers to his girlfriend Melanie Dopplinger, Austria; Pictures: Darragh Kane
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/maritime-college-to-train-global-workers-222759.html
Friday, February 15, 2013
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Posted: February 15, 2013
BARRY ROCHE, Southern Correspondent, Irish Times. Feb 14th 2013
“The National Maritime College of Ireland is set to develop further this year with the provision of training programmes and consultancy services in the Middle East and Asia, it has emerged.
NMCI is a constituent college of Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), whose president, Dr Brendan Murphy, confirmed today that both research and training at the college is to expand.
Speaking at a conferring ceremony for some 72 graduates at NMCI, Dr Murphy said 10 full time research posts have been created at the college in the past year.
“This growth in R&D has warranted the establishment and branding of the NMCI’s own research centre, something which will take place in the very near future,” he said.
This year, NMCI’s commercial wing, NMCI Services, is set to provide training and consultancy services in the UAE, the Gulf region, Vietnam and Malaysia, he added.
Located on a 10-acre site at Ringaskiddy in Cork Harbour, the NMCI was set up to serve the training requirements of the School of Nautical Studies, CIT and the Irish Naval Service.”
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Posted: November 23, 2012
Cork cluster to capitalise on energy
By Vincent Ryan
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Cork is seeking to capitalise on its energy resources, both conventional and renewable, through the establishment of Energy Cork.
The new energy cluster will be launched on the Dec 7 by the Energy Minister Pat Rabbitte at a major industry event featuring leading speakers from the oil and gas industries as well as from the renewable sector.
Project manager for Energy Cork, Pat Lettice, said that the cluster was planning on bringing everyone involved in the energy industry together for the benefit of the region.
“Energy Cork’s remit is a very broad church, we have speakers from conventional, oil and gas, as well as the renewable sector. If you are at all operating in the energy sector we would like to have you there. The cluster is going to be about stimulating economic and job creation in the Cork region,” he said.
The conference will formally mark the beginning of Energy Cork’s activities as an industry-driven cluster pursuing co-ordinated actions to strengthen enterprise and support job creation within the sector in the Cork region.
Speakers at the launch will include the newly appointed CEO of Eirgrid Fintan Slye; CEO of Providence Resources Tony O’Reilly; chief executive of Bord Gáis John Mullins; principal investigator, Environmental Research Institute, University College Cork, Brian Ó Gallachóir; lead executive, Phillips 66, Neill O’Carroll; and director of product development, ServusNet Informatics Ltd, Seán Condon.
lPlaces for this industry event are limited and registration is essential. To register for this free event, simply email Kieran Lettice, Energy Cork’s project manager at kieran_lettice@external.corkcity.ie before Dec 3 confirming your contact details and indicating that you would like to attend.
© This appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Thursday, November 22, 2012
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Posted: November 15, 2012
We’ll be tuning into Ireland’s Search and Rescue on RTE 1 this Sunday at 6.30pm to see a few familiar faces.
Following on from the success of the two Irish Coast Guard helicopter rescue series, Rescue 115 and Rescue 117, Ireland’s Search and Rescue is a six part series, presented by Claire Byrne. This new series features the Irish Coast Guard helicopter bases in Dublin, Waterford, Shannon and Sligo as well as RNLI stations and Mountain Rescue teams nationwide. The series also shows the work of Cork City Fire Brigade and volunteer Coast Guard groups.
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See http://www.rte.ie/tv/programmes/searchandrescue.html for further information.
We wish all involved the best of luck with the new series.
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Posted: September 13, 2012
The National Maritime College of Ireland will open to members of the public on September 15th and 16th from 11am-4pm. Tours of the college with begin with a short video outlining the college’s core activities, followed by a tour of the Environmental Survival Pool and 360° full mission Bridge Simulator.
A free harbour shuttle ferry, sponsored by Lend Lease and Port of Cork, will run on both Saturday and Sunday between 12pm and 3pm.
See www.corkharbour.ie for ferry times and map.
The NMCI will host free screenings of Ford Short Film Competition finalists, which were part of the Titanic 100 Events
See www.corkharbour.ie for more information on Cork Harbor Open Weekend.
We look forward to welcoming you to the NMCI.
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