Top Icelandic retailer, Nordic Store is now offering a series of historical maps of Iceland through its online store.
The series, containing eight maps, specialises on the historical and heritage of Iceland through text and illustration, ideal for historians and geologists. Each map focuses on a different area of Iceland including the Southwest, the West Fjords, the East and also one map covering Iceland as a whole.
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Categories: Education, Retail and Services, Society, Travel and Leisure Tags: Iceland Heritage, Iceland History, Iceland Map, Iceland Maps, Icelandic Map, Map of Iceland, Nordic Store, Online Maps
Presentation training expert releases exclusive free report to celebrate new website launch.
Well Presented Ltd’s Managing Director, Stephen Hendren, said “Fear of giving presentations frequently tops polls of peoples worst fears, usually above fear of death! What we hope to do with this report is give people tools to help overcome that.”
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With the academic year drawing to a close, many educational establishments take advantage of the summer months to renovate and expand school facilities including the catering department. Just in time for the school summer break, the stainless steel manufacturer Teknomek will be offering discounts on a variety of its hygiene-standard stainless steel catering products for the whole of July.
Teknomek sells a variety of stainless steel catering products ready to fit and accommodate any professional kitchen. The Bain Marie & Heat Gantry top hot cupboards, a Teknomek top seller, are manufactured in stainless steel with painted steel cladding, 4 swivel castors, 2 locking breaks, sliding doors with an internal shelf and gastronorm tray fittings. As well as this, Teknomek offers Read more…
Recent developments within the technologies of geothermal power plants have lead to the expansion of technical training in Iceland to cope with the demand for technicians. The Geothermal Power Plant Technician course at the Keilir Institute of Technology is set to address the growing need for skilled geothermal power plant technicians as well as health, safety and environmental issues.
The Geothermal Power Plant Technician course at Keilir is split into two separate programs, which are then spread across two years. The first year is an Associate of Applied Science Degree (worth 60 ECTS), where students receive hands-on training in running and maintaining power plants. The second year is an Associate of Science Degree (also worth 60 ECTS), which is more focused on the academic methods and techniques used for planning daily operations, maintenance and purchasing equipment/spare parts – the combination of the two results in a total of 120 ECTS.
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Online news channel IceNews provides all the up-to-date news coverage on the current Iceland volcano and the consequential flight delays across most of Europe as it unravels.
The online news channel has been reporting on all the major events surrounding the volcanic eruptions, since the beginning of the first eruption at Fimmvorduhals, and now the current eruption at the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in the south of Iceland.
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Categories: Banking and Finance, Culture, Music and the Arts, Education, Health and Pharmaceuticals, Politics, Retail and Services, Travel and Leisure, energy, government Tags: Eyjafjallajokull, Fimmvorduhals, Flight Delays Europe, Iceland Volcano, Icelandair, Icelandic News, icenews, Scandinavian News, Volcanic Eruption in Iceland, Volcano News Coverage
Wednesday 28 April 2010 at the The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester
Delegate tickets £195 + VAT Manchester Digital & SEMP Members / £225 + VAT Non Members for bookings before 22 March £250 + Vat / £275 + Vat thereafter
The UK e-Commerce market will be worth £48 Billion pounds during 2010, with online sales now representing 10% of total UK retail sales. Businesses need to be seriously engaging both in the B2B and B2C arena to gain competitive advantage. Read more…
Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) keen to boost their careers and classroom management skills can now enrol for the new Masters Degree in Teaching and Learning (MTL) through Teach West Midlands to undertake their course at Birmingham City University, or other consortium members starting next month.
Launched last April by the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) the MTL is being delivered in the Midlands region by Teach West Midlands (TWM), a Consortium of eight West Midlands Universities, with all fees paid for by the government.
This 3 year part-time/flexible programme is currently available to Newly Qualified Teachers in National Challenge Schools or Schools facing Challenging Circumstances. Read more…
Business development, education and entrepreneurship are being greatly pushed in Iceland via the Asbru Enterprise Park, Keflavik. The Keilir: Atlantic Center of Excellence, located within the park, offers dedicated academic programs and flight training, whilst Iceland’s first data centre and other ventures such as medical tourism are also taking place at Asbru.
The Asbru Enterprise Park, in conjunction with Kadeco, is helping to combine medical advancements with medical tourism. A hospital specialising in joint replacements, weight loss surgery and other medical treatments is set to commence within the second quarter of 2010. The hospital will house around 35 beds, three operating theatres and all together have the capability of treating up to 4,000 patients per year.
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Categories: Culture, Music and the Arts, Education, Health and Pharmaceuticals, Retail and Services, Travel and Leisure Tags: Asbru Enterprise Park, business development, Education Development, Flight Training, keilir, medical tourism
Iceland’s recent volcanic activity at the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in the southern region of the country has drawn a lot of attention from geologists and volcanologists worldwide. In addition to the abundance of tourists flocking to see the volcano erupting, scientists and students from all around the world are coming to Iceland to examine, research and survey these enormous forces of nature in a country that is constantly being shaped by both fire and ice.
Icelanders, over the past century, have become world leaders in the use of renewable energy sources by learning to harness the forces that are present in Iceland as an indigenous and clean energy source. Over 80 percent of total energy use in Iceland comes from Read more…
In a recent ‘Show & Tell’ education event initiated by Becta, the government agency for technology in education, parents and teachers came together to see the benefits and advantages of technology and learning platforms in helping children’s education and their learning process. The location for the event was at Grays Infant and Nursery School, where staff and parents were keen to share their stories on how learning platforms have changed and are continuing to change their children’s learning for the better.
The interactive event began with an introduction to Grays School’s use of technology in education in relation to its learning platform, presented by Head Teacher, Christine Terrey. Grays School is an Infant and Nursery School of 240 children situated in Newhaven East Sussex and in Easter 2008 the school started using its brand new learning platform. Read more…
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