• Wakefield College Students Launch Exhibition with Double TWO at Wakefield Museum

    Fashion and Textiles students from Wakefield College have launched an exhibition at Wakefield Museum with British heritage shirt company, Double TWO. The exhibition, which will be open until May 2025, celebrates the rich history of the Double TWO shirt company, founded in 1940, which became globally renowned for the shirts’ replacement collars and cuffs. Wakefield…

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  • Ambitious Antoni’s Passion for Public Services

    A Response Officer for Staffordshire Police has thanked his ‘passionate’ former lecturers at Stoke on Trent College for helping him secure a career in public services. Antoni Sadula studied Level 3 Public Services at the college between 2017 and 2019, and has since joined the local police force in Leek, covering part of the Staffordshire…

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  • A New Era for Engineering at Gower College Swansea

    Gower College Swansea is delighted to announce two new appointments within its Engineering department. Rhys Thomas is the new Learning Area Manager for the department, which includes mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, motor vehicle, motor sport, and welding. He is joined by Maria Francis-Emanuel as the new Assistant Learning Area Manager. Both took up their new…

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  • Students on Track for Careers in Music Following an Inspirational Visit to Spain

    A group of Sound Engineering learners from Coleg Cambria Deeside spent two weeks in Barcelona as part of an education and research programme. In partnership with international careers organisation NexGen, based in the Catalan capital, the trip gave them access to experts in the sector and guidance on how to “take the next steps after…

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  • A College Nursery Had an ‘Excellent’ Start to the Academic Year with an Outstanding Inspection Result

    The report by Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW) and Estyn deemed Toybox Children’s Nursery, based at Coleg Cambria Deeside, to be Excellent in three categories – Wellbeing, Care and Development, and Leadership and Management. The news comes after the much-loved facility was a finalist in the Setting of the Year category at last year’s Early Years Wales…

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  • Gower College Swansea Croeso Day 2024

    Gower College Swansea has held a special Welsh-themed welcome event for students. Croeso Day 2024 saw staff and learners, who are fluent speakers, enjoy a range of activities designed to get everyone using their Welsh as they get to know one another. Entertainment was provided by pioneering beat-boxer and live looping artist, Mr Phormula, while…

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  • First Images of Groundbreaking New £230,000 College Esports Arena.

    The cutting-edge facility has been built at Coleg Cambria Deeside and is one of only a handful of further education gaming complexes in the country. Lisa Radcliffe, Assistant Principal for Technical Studies, said state-of-the-art equipment and technology – including 36 YOYOTECH high-spec stations featuring the latest I7 Intel processors and RTX4070 graphics cards – secure…

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  • Renowned Movie Director Put Under the Spotlight by Coleg Cambria Students

    Neil Marshall, whose credits include Hellboy, Game of Thrones, Westworld, and Dog Soldiers, paid a visit to the college’s Creative Media department for a Q&A with learners in Deeside. A Best Director winner at the Saturn Awards and British Independent Awards for The Descent, he spoke about his career in the industry and provided the cohort with advice and…

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  • Vibrant College Provides Alhagie with Skills for the Future

    A learner with ambitions of a career in mental health nursing, has praised the ‘vibrant atmosphere’ and lecturers at Stoke on Trent College for providing the tools to achieve future goals. Alhagie Darboe, who attended school previously in Gambia, has undertaken the college’s Access to Higher Education (HE) course in Level 3 Health and Professional…

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  • GCSE Success at Stoke on Trent College

    GCSE re-sit students from Stoke on Trent College are taking the next steps in their career paths, after collecting their English and mathematics results. Every year students who have not managed to achieve a high-grade pass (4 or above) in their English or mathematics at school are given a chance to re-take their exams, giving…

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