Two young women who completed a Food and Beverage Service apprenticeship at Northern Regional College, in partnership with Galgorm Spa and Golf Resort, have secured full-time, permanent posts at the award-winning resort. Jennifer Perez from Alicante in Spain and Emalee O’Connell from Ballyclare, recent recipients of the College’s Highest Achieving Student awards, feel the apprentice programme is a great progression route for anyone interested in a career in the hospitality sector.
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Balancing part-time study with a full-time job was challenging but well worth the effort, according to County Derry woman Sinead Brady. Having successfully completed a Level 2 Certificate in Fitness Instructing (Gym) at Northern Regional College in Magherafelt, Sinead has now enrolled on the Level 3 Certificate in Personal Training and is planning to do a short Circuits course as well.
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A Carrickfergus student has credited Northern Regional College for allowing her to invest in her passion. Sophie Jones, who was awarded a Level 3 Performing Arts Diploma with triple Distinction*- the highest possible grade – plans to study Dance and Drama at Edge Hill University in Liverpool
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Northern Regional College is to relocate to the former St Joseph’s College premises in Beresford Avenue while its new Coleraine campus is being built. The College has embarked on an £84 million capital investment programme, funded by the Department of the Economy, to develop new campuses on its current sites in Union Street, Coleraine and Farm Lodge, Ballymena. The new purpose-built Coleraine campus with state-of-the-art facilities will be on an extended site which includes the former Church of Ireland buildings on Brook Street.
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Joshua Wylie, from Ballymena, has been awarded Highest Achieving Student at Northern Regional College’s recent Student Awards. Joshua is undertaking an Extended Diploma in Construction & the Built Environment as was presented with his award by Abigail Patterson, Marketing Manager with Martin & Hamilton, sponsors of the award.
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Pictured (left to right) are Emmalee O’Connell and Jennifer Perez, students at Northern Regional College in Ballymena, who were both awarded Highest Achieving Student at the College’s annual Student Awards. Emmalee and Jennifer are both currently undertaking Food & Beverage Service apprenticeships at the Galgorm Resort and Spa Hotel, in partnership with Northern Regional College.
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