In 2013, Northern Regional College joined up with national charity The Reading Agency, to get even more adults in the College reading, through the nationwide Six Book Challenge reading and adult literacy programme. In recent years, the library have adapted the original concept to enhance provision for a wider range of College user needs renaming the initiative to the annual ‘Northern Regional College Reading Challenge’. Now in its seventh year it is still going strong and its popularity continues to increase.
Continue ReadingNorthern Regional College Reaches Important Milestone in Campus Development
Tuesday
28th January 2020
Northern Regional College has reached an important milestone in the development of its new Coleraine campus. During the construction of the new campus, the College will be temporarily relocated to the former St Joseph’s College in Beresford Avenue. Local contractor P&K McKaigue has been appointed to carry out the necessary alternations. From September 2020, Beresford Avenue will be promoted as the campus address for all Coleraine courses.
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Some of the College’s most talented young tradesmen will battle it out this week at the annual intercampus heats of SkillBuild NI. Hosted by the Newtownabbey campus, this is the first leg of a journey that could potentially lead to the WorldSkills finals in China in 2021. SkillBuild is the largest multi-trade competition in the UK for young students and apprentices. The SkillBuild NI competitions, which are governed and run by the Construction Industry and Training Board Northern Ireland (CITB NI), cover a range of construction-related disciplines including plumbing, carpentry, bricklaying, joinery and electrical installation.
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After leaving Dunluce College, Matthew did a Level 3 Diploma in Sport and this gave him the confidence to go on and do the Foundation Degree. He is taking a year out to save up some money and in the longer term would like to go to university.
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A part time course at Northern Regional College has helped set a County Tyrone mother of two off on a new career trajectory. Loretta Daly from Cookstown, who was awarded a Foundation Degree with distinction in Counselling at the College’s Higher Education graduation ceremony in The Great Hall at Galgorm Resort, has now launched her own counselling service.She explains that doing a Level 4 counselling course on a part-time basis at the College’s Magherafelt campus, whetted her appetite for learning more about the subject:
Continue ReadingLocal support worker qualifies for new job thanks to Northern Regional College
Monday
27th January 2020
Natasha Lyttle from Ballymoney who was awarded a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership in Children Care Learning and Development at Northern Regional College’s annual Higher Education graduation ceremony held in The Great Hall at Galgorm Resort, says doing the Diploma helped her secure a new job. When she started the course at the College’s Ballymoney campus, Natasha was working with Dervock Community Playgroup. With new legislation coming into effect, she realised that if she was to progress to the role of deputy leader of the playgroup, she would need a Level 5 qualification.
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