CASE news archive
HIE Caithness and Sutherland news archive from January 2006
| Support for creativity HI~Arts, the arts development agency for the Highlands and Islands, has completed a funding package to ensure that it can offer a suite of awards to artists, craftworkers, writers and musicians who work in the Highlands and Islands. | |
| Enterprising Britain 2006 competition The search is on to find a candidate to represent Scotland in this year’s Enterprising Britain Competition and Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise have again been asked to undertake the selection process. | |
| Highlands and Islands Media Awards - Barron Trophy winner The winner of the Barron Trophy, which recognises lifetime achievement in journalism, is Duncan Ross, editor of the Northern Times, Golspie. | |
| UHI helps future entrepreneurs A record number of applications have been received for this year's ICT Youth Challenge, the regional competition that invites teams of young people to submit their ideas for information technology and communications of the future. Across the Highlands and Islands, from Stromness to Campbeltown and Buckie to Strontian, successful entrants will now progress to the next stage, the First Pitch. | |
| Shetland Times wins newspaper of the year award The Shetland Times has been voted Newspaper of the Year by the Highland and Islands Media Awards' judging panel. | |
| Get the picture - streaming video Four new streaming videos have just been added to the HIE website - each in three formats - illustrating just some of the real-life action happening here and now.
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| Age business in the business age Legislation will outlaw age discrimination in employment and vocational training in October 2006. It will cover all employers, large and small, in private and public sectors. It will include every member of the workforce, young and old. This means employers will no longer be able to recruit, train, promote or retire people early on the basis of age, unless it can be objectively justified.
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