In response to the positive feedback to remote learning during the lockdown, Northern Regional College has decided to offer GCSE Maths as an online option. Students will only have to attend the College to sit their exams. Click on https://bit.ly/3h9znHs for further information. Part-time GCSE Maths and English classes are offered at all campuses, as well as at some community-based outreach centres. In addition, GCSE Biology is offered at Ballymena, Coleraine and Newtownabbey campuses. Classes begin week commencing Monday 20 September. The deadline is approaching but there is still time to apply.
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Students have given the ‘thumbs up’ to Northern Regional College’s Summer Science School at its Coleraine campus saying it was an ideal opportunity to refresh their chemistry skills before starting into the new academic year. Practical science sessions in schools and colleges were severely impacted by the pandemic and the two day programme of practical lab activities and learning, delivered in collaboration with Queen’s University, Belfast, was designed to give students a chance to make up for lost time and get valuable ‘hands-on’ experience.
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Northern Regional College will play a key role in Ballymena’s new Manufacturing Excellence Academy which has been established with funding from The Gallaher Trust and assistance and support from the Mid and East Antrim Borough Council’s Manufacturing Task Force. The Academy, the first of its kind, will see 20 individuals from the wider Ballymena community attend a five-week programme delivered by the College tailored to boost their manufacturing skills to help secure potential employment with local companies.
Continue ReadingJust eighteen months after arriving in Northern Ireland, Romanian man Cosmin Vlasie has passed his GCSE Maths and English exams with flying colours. Comin, who attended Northern Regional College in Ballymena as part time student, achieved grade A in both subjects and is now on track to do a Computing degree at university.
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Colleges and universities across Northern Ireland are to deliver free training courses in over 250 subjects to help people affected by the pandemic upskill and reskill to boost their career prospects. The £23 million Skill Up investment programme, supported by the Northern Ireland Office, will fund 15,000 free training places for qualifications from entry level right up to post graduation qualifications. Up to 7,000 places will be available in the first year.
Continue ReadingExplore Higher Education options at Northern Regional College’s Advice Evening
Tuesday
31st August 2021
As another academic year looms on the horizon, help is at hand for those people, no matter what their age, who are undecided about the next stage of their academic journey. Northern Regional College is holding Advice Evenings at all campuses next Thursday, September 2nd, to help prospective students navigate a way through the full-time and part-time Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE) options.
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