News Archive
28/3/2018
University Announces Key Research Appointment For Research And Impact
University announces key research appointment The University of the Highlands and Islands has appointed Professor Neil Simco as its Vice-Principal for Research and Impact. Professor Simco will be responsible for leading and overseeing the university's research activity in the role.
28/3/2018
No Action On Number Of Taxis And Private Hire Cars In Highland
The Highland Licensing Committee agreed on 27 March 2018 to take no action towards introducing restrictions on the number of taxis and private hire cars (PHC) licensed to operate in Highland or any particular part of the Highland area. This follows consideration of a specialist and independent legal opinion commissioned to seek clarification of the Council's powers in this regard.28/3/2018
Dounreay and Socio-Economics
Dounreay has been decommissioning for some years and that will continue Part of the process has been getting involved in soci-economics to prepare the area for the day when the workforce will be minimal. Funding has and is being made available in a number of strategies detaisl for which are available on the web site.
27/3/2018
Street Traders licence condition 8 to be removed
The Highland Licensing Committee has considered a report in relation to street traders licence condition 8 and agreed to remove this condition from its standard licence conditions. The continued use of the condition was reviewed following a recent court decision which made clear that licensing conditions must serve a licensing purpose namely preserving public order or public safety.27/3/2018
Caithness Landlords - Note Older Listings Removed
Every now and then we need to clear out ads that are older and have been on the site for sometime. Some are no longer required but we have no way of knowing so we merely reduce the list from the back end.26/3/2018
Gender Pay Gap Reporting For Large Employers - Deadlines
If you are an employer with 250 employees or more, new legislation means you will need to publish your annual gender pay data. The deadline is 30 March 2018 for public sector employers and 4 April 2018for private and voluntary sector employers.
25/3/2018
Road Closure For Upgrade Before Wind Turbines Arrive
Achlachan Wind Farm (17/02176/FUL) The B870 Mybster to Westerdale road will be closed from 9am on Monday 26th March 2018 to 5pm on 22nd April 2018. This is to upgrade the road to allow for turbine deliveries.
25/3/2018
Final Chance To Submit 2017-18 Saas Applications
Issued on behalf of the Student Awards Agency Scotland. Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) would like to remind any students who have not yet submitted their 2017-2018 application for funding and tuition fees, to do so now and before the 31 March 2018 closing date.23/3/2018
Caithness And North Sutherland Regeneration Partnership - Update
Week Commencing 19th March 2018 Energy & Business services: Interesting this week to read news of continuing interest in Floating Offshore Wind on the north cost of Caithness and Sutherland. As I've previously mentioned here, the Dounreay Tri project intended to build a Floating Offshore demonstrator project at a site around 6km north of Dounreay, but following that company's entering into administration the future for the development was uncertain.23/3/2018
Fast Track Pathfinder For Business Start-ups
HIE is now recruiting for the 2018 intake to its Pathfinder Accelerator, a tried and tested business programme nurturing growth in life sciences and technology. Share The Pathfinder Accelerator is specifically designed to help companies and start-ups develop novel business ideas relating to life sciences or technology and reduce time to market by testing it in the most time-efficient, cost-effective way to determine its commercial viability.23/3/2018
Corporate Parenting Board for Highland's children and young people
A Corporate Parenting Board is to be established which will have a duty of care for currently around 500 ‘Looked After' children and young people in Highland. Members of the Highland Community Planning Partnership’s, Community Planning Board have this week (21 March 2018) agreed to establish a Corporate Parenting Board the purpose of which will be to: • promote the corporate parenting role of statutory agencies and awareness of the duties towards care experienced young people in Highland.23/3/2018
Highlands And Islands Businesses Moving To New Technologies
Use of social media and mobile technology is on the increase by Highlands and Islands businesses, according to the region's second Digital Economy Business Survey (DEBS) released today. Share The findings of the survey carried out by Ipsos MORI, were launched by Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) during the week-long DataFest18 Fringe event being held in Inverness for businesses and the wider community for the first time.23/3/2018
International Trade Workshops
HIE is calling on businesses across the region to be ‘Business Brave' and take the leap into trading overseas by signing up to its Selling Online International trade workshops. Share The organisation has kicked off a series of free international trade workshops in a bid to support businesses that aspire to sell to overseas markets via the web but lack the knowledge and expertise to do so.23/3/2018
Adult Social Care Funding: A Local Or National Responsibility?
The Institute for Fiscal Studies has published a report about social care in England but has many similarities with what is happening in Scotland. The government plans to abolish general grant funding for councils from 2020, meaning councils will depend on council tax and business rates for the majority of their general funding.
23/3/2018
Third term for Inverness Business Improvement District
Inverness businesses have voted for the Inverness Business Improvement District (BID) to continue for a third term and a further five years from 1 April 2018 - 31 March 2023. In 2008, the yes vote for the creation of Inverness BID made Inverness the first city in the world to incorporate property owners as well as businesses in a business improvement district.
23/3/2018
US tariffs against China more about politics than economics
In response to the latest move by US president Donald Trump to impose tariffs against China in retaliation for alleged intellectual property theft Dr Fragkiskos Filippaios, a reader in International Business in the Kent Business School at the University of Kent gives his view. ‘In another controversial move, President Trump has decided to announce plans to impose tariffs on a number of Chinese products and at the same time introduce barriers to Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) entering the US.23/3/2018
Fair Work Supported
Support for trade unions and business. New measures to support fair work - backed by an extra £350,000 funding – have been set out by Fair Work Secretary Keith Brown and Employability Minister Jamie Hepburn.23/3/2018
Scottish Electorate Continues To Rise
The number of people registered to vote in elections in Scotland has increased in 2017, according figures published today by National Records of Scotland. This is the second successive year that the Scottish electorate has increased, following the previous drop in numbers caused by the introduction of Individual Electoral Registration (IER).Help is available to reduce Council Tax charges
The Highland Council is advising low income households, including home-owners, to apply for help to reduce their Council Tax. Eligible households can receive up to 100% reduction from their Council Tax which means that those households who receive the full reduction will only have to pay their Scottish Water and Wastewater charges.22/3/2018
