The entrepreneurial spirit is truly alive and well at Northern Regional College. Four of the top awards at the recent Young Enterprise NI Big Market trade event went to business students at the College’s Coleraine campus for their environmentally friendly candle sets Eco Wicks.
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Over seventy pupils from eight local schools took part in Ballymena Rotary Club’s annual technology challenge hosted by Northern Regional College. The pupils were all given the same basic equipment to complete the challenge and working in teams of four, they had brainstorm possible solutions before writing up their proposed solution and demonstrating how it worked.
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A Railway Track Apprentice at Northern Regional College has been shortlisted for the Northern Ireland Public Sector Apprentice of the Year Award. Danny McGinley, who gave up his full-time job as a bus driver with Translink to start a new career as a rail track technician, is now in the second year of the Rail Engineering programme.
Continue ReadingNorthern Regional College Inspiring the Next Generation of Female STEM Professionals
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11th March 2024
Northern Regional College hosted an interactive STEM careers event, to embrace, empower and inform young females of the range of STEM related professions, in celebration of International Women’s Day.
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The Open University has approved Northern Regional College as a new strategic validation partner launching 2024/2025, offering three new higher education (HE) programmes. From September 2024, subject to validation approval, students at Northern Regional College will be able to study for OU-validated Foundation Degree courses in Housing Practice and Cloud Computing with Cyber Security, and a Certificate of Higher Education in Health Care Practice.
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Fifty apprentices and trainees attending Northern Regional College participated in the annual inter-campus heats of SkillBuild NI 2024. SkillBuild NI is the largest multi-trade competition in the UK for young students and apprentices. The annual competition, governed by the Construction Industry Training Board NI (CITB NI), covers construction-related disciplines. The joinery, carpentry, cabinet making, plumbing and electrical installation competitions were all held at the College’s Newtownabbey campus, while the brickwork competition was held at the Farm Lodge campus in Ballymena.
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