INE News archive
HIE Inverness and East Highland news archive from February 2007
| Encouraging Enterprise - HIE chairman speech HIE chairman William Roe was a keynote speaker at the Holyrood Manifesto Series on Economic Development, held 26 February 2007 at the Royal Museum in Edinburgh. | |
| Challenge gives pupils taste for careers in food industry Dornoch Academy pupils have been given a taste of running their own business over the past few weeks, by creating a new ice cream. | |
| Focus on hospitality for Highland teachers A tourism and hospitality education seminar was held in Strathspey this week for teachers in the Highlands and Islands where they were introduced to new resources and ideas to bring back to the classroom. | |
| Let's talk renewables The second edition of a magazine aimed at raising public awareness of renewable energy issues will be dropping through letterboxes across the Highlands and Islands over the coming weeks. | |
| Exports and excellence HIE Inverness and East Highland is running two international trade workshops, to assist local companies with exporting. | |
| HIE appoints new director of global connections Highlands and Islands Enterprise has appointed a new director of global connections. | |
| Event focuses sights on contact centre careers Working in a contact centre is more than just a job... it can be a lucrative and stable career. That's the message being sent out during an open evening at Inverness College on Tuesday (February 27). | |
| The Crown Estate in Scotland - new opportunities for public benefits A major report, published today (Wednesday 21 February), sets out the case for a review of the Crown Estate in Scotland so that the resources involved, including Scotland’s seabed and much of its foreshore, produce greater benefits for local communities. | |
| 90 minutes that could win your business new customers Leading international management consultant Philip Atkinson is to deliver a session on improving sales techniques next week at the invitation of the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) in Scotland. | |
| Highland business success in USA A team led by a Highland businessman was one of the top prize winners in a competition run by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). | |
| Jack McConnell sets priority to make school meals from local produce ...Will Highland schools be next? First Minister, Jack McConnell MSP, gave his most detailed outlook for four years on the environmental challenge facing Scotland, at a the launch of Environment Week on Monday 5 February. His speech highlighted three priority actions that government and the public can take together, that will both reduce carbon emissions and benefit local communities. | |
| HIE boost for skills in traditional arts Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has announced a new investment package into the development of the Feisean movement in the Highlands and Islands. | |
| Careers Scotland event for Gaelic teacher Gaelic teachers from across the Highlands and Islands have been invited to a seminar at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Isle of Skye on Monday 12 February. | |
| Art and engineering lunch time talk at Distance Lab Art and engineering. Are they opposites or can they interact creatively to open up new opportunities? | |
| HIE shares ideas with new English agency Senior executives from England's newly formed Commission for Rural Communities visited Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) this week to share ideas on best practice. | |
| Highland 2007 - ThreeSixFive photo-project Highland 2007, in association with Fin Macrae Photography, has launched an exciting project to record life in the Highlands and Islands in 2007 - and has enlisted well known Highlanders such as Ewan MacDonald, Lesley McKenna and Mylo to take part. | |