31st July 2001

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Some of Northern Ireland’s most pioneering women have graduated at the University of Ulster’s Jordanstown campus.

The Women’s Opportunities Unit-which aims to increase women’s participation in society and reduce barriers to access- hosted the ceremony for over eighty of this years successfu students.

The unit offers a wide range of courses at certificate, diploma and postgraduate level, all aimed at permeating boundaries between education and training and ensuring the integration of women into the labour market.

The courses enable women to make their own contributions to technology, create their own enterprises and use technology as a tool to gain employment at management levels.

“We are bringing about change, we are empowering women to be pro active in controlling their own lives,” said Professor Pauline Murphy, Director of the Women’s Opportunities Unit.

“We want women to have the opportunity to play their part in the social, economic and political regeneration in Northern Ireland.”

The courses developed by the Women’s Opportunities Unit take place at the Jordanstown, Belfast and Magee campuses as well as at outreach centres, Further and Higher Education Institutes, enterprise and women’s centres throughout Northern Ireland.

Each course is open to women of all ages and backgrounds.

For further information, please contact:

Press Office Department of Communication and Development
Telephone: 028 9036 6178
Email: pressoffice@ulster.ac.uk