Northern Regional College awards Honorary Fellowship to World Cup hockey hero
Friday
13th December 2019
Katie Mullan, captain of the Irish Women’s Hockey team, has received an Honorary Fellowship from Northern Regional College. Katie, from Coleraine, is one of four individuals to receive the honour who have had an impact upon the College and the local community. The other recipients are David Watson, Managing Director of Ryobi Aluminium Casting (UK) Ltd.; Gail Redmond, Women’s Domestic Manager for the Irish FA Foundation; and Jimmy Kelly, former Training and Development Manager at RLC Langford Lodge.
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The Mayor of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council has held a special reception to celebrate the outstanding success of three Northern Regional College apprentices. Carpentry apprentices Samuel Gilmore from Aghadowey and Patrick McCloskey from Garvagh along with plumbing apprentice Abigail Reilly from Ballymoney were special guests at the event held in Cloonavin which was also attended by their lecturers, family members and employers.
Continue ReadingCutting-edge technology at Northern Regional College’s ‘Bring IT On’ event
Tuesday
10th December 2019
Over 150 local primary and post-primary pupils from the Magherafelt area have taken part in an educational initiative to showcase computer science opportunities at Northern Regional College. The Department for the Economy funded ‘Bring IT On’ event was designed to inform young people about opportunities in computer science and encourage them to consider a career in IT.
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“Northern Regional College is an ideal steppingstone for university and a successful professional career,” according to some of the College’s former students. That’s the message from Jonny Stewart, a Chartered Town Planner, as well as his GM Design Associates colleague Keith Stewart, a Chartered Architectural Technologist.
Continue ReadingFormer Students Return to Northern Regional College as Guest Speakers
Monday
25th November 2019
Northern Regional College is an ideal stepping stone for university and a successful professional career, according to former Built Environment students. Jonny Stewart and Keith Stewart, who have qualified as a Chartered Town Planner and Chartered Architectural Technologist respectively, both work for GM Design Associates, a multi-disciplinary practice based in Coleraine.
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Northern Regional College’s Newtownabbey Campus is ‘up in lights’ this week to support raising awareness of pancreatic cancer. The College is joining with thousands of landmarks, public buildings and homes across the globe during November’s Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month to put a spotlight on a disease, which carries an alarmingly low survival rate of just 7%. The Newtownabbey Campus will glow purple – the colour associated with pancreatic cancer across the world – throughout the week in the run up to World Pancreatic Cancer Day on Thursday 21 November. For more information, visit purplelightsuk.org
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