INE News archive
HIE Inverness and East Highland news archive from April 2006
| Population growth in the Highlands and Islands Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has welcomed news that the area's population is continuing to grow. | |
| Career lessons launched for young Gaelic speakers Young Gaelic speakers can now access Scotland's national career education resource, following the launch of the Gaelic Language version of Career Box. (This item is written in both English and Gaelic languages.) | |
| Leading businesswoman to chair new LEC Well-known Highland businesswoman Freda Rapson has been appointed to chair the newly formed local enterprise company HIE Inverness and East Highland.
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| UHI MIllennium Institute research - businesses and computing UHI Millennium Institute is researching the expectations and requirements that businesses have from computing and ICT education. | |
| £16m centre for health science takes shape THE creation of a £15.7million centre of excellence for healthcare and education in Inverness is well underway with the first phase due to be completed by October of this year. | |
| Pupils in Strathspey to communicate with Greenland via satellite link Pupils from four schools in Strathspey will shortly be taking part in a project where, by satellite link, they will communicate with a Highland woman who is embarking on an expedition to cross Greenland on skis. | |
| Cromarty cyclist gets dream business off to a great start When John McFarlane and his family relocated from Sussex to Cromarty, he had dreams of a house near the beach, quality time with his partner and five-year-old twins and eventually starting his own business. | |
| Cumhachd Coimhearsnachd: Stiùir bhon Oir Gheibh coimhearsnachdan cothrom bruidhinn agus ionnsachadh mu na buannachdan a th' ann dhaibh an lùib cumhachd ath-nuadhachail, agus rud ris an canar 'ar-a-mach sàmhach', cumhachd ath-nuadhachail choimhearsnachdan, aig co-labhairt sna Hearadh an ath-sheachdain a tha Companaidh Cumhachd Coimhearsnachd na Gàidhealtachd is nan Eilean a' cur air dòigh. | |
| Community Energy: Leading from the Edge Communities will have the chance to discuss and learn about the renewable energy opportunities available to them, and what is being called the 'quiet revolution' of community renewables, at a conference in Harris next week organised by the Highlands and Islands Community Energy Company.
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| New names announced for two local enterprise companies Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has confirmed the names of two new local enterprise companies which have been formed as a result of the agency's network organisational review. | |
| Shell Livewire - young entrepreneur of the year A 26-year-old organic egg farmer from Ardersier has been named as Shetland, Orkney, Western Isles and Highlands Shell Livewire Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2006 and has taken a major step closer to becoming the overall Scotland winner. | |
| Spend a day in the Highlands and Islands of the future How we'll live, work, learn and do business using new science and technology, will be the theme of one-day conference in Aviemore next month entitled The Digital Future - creativity without boundaries.
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| 90 minutes that could change the way you present forever! Marketing guru Nick Oulton is to deliver a talk on 'killer presentations' in Inverness later this month at the invitation of the The Chartered Institute of Marketing. | |