Bill McGinnis was appointed as the Northern Ireland Adviser on Employment and Skills in October 2008, and is a Commissioner at the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. He was previously Chair of the McAvoy Group Limited (off-site building solutions), having been appointed in 2000, and is now a Non-executive director of Cunninghams, Maghera
Bill has been a board member for a number of public and private organisations including, Invest Northern Ireland, the National Employment Panel and the Sector Skills Development Agency. He was awarded an OBE in 1997 and a CBE in the 2004 for his services to Northern Ireland Industry.
Today the UK Commission for Employment and Skills releases its latest findings for Northern Ireland from the Employer Skills Survey. The results highlight the magnitude of the problem that the Northern Ireland economy still faces. As the Northern Ireland Adviser …
Last month the UK Commission’s Chairman, Charlie Mayfield, joined me to call upon Northern Ireland’s employers to take control of the skills agenda. Like elsewhere in the UK, Northern Ireland is facing significant skills “potholes” that employers, if given the …
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