A Canadian based student who completed a Tour Guiding course at Northern Regional College has qualified as an OCN accredited tour guide. Alison Balzer, who is originally from Bangor in County Down, emigrated to Vancouver with her family when she was eight years old. Now living in Nova Scotia, like thousands of diaspora scattered around the world, Alison is passionate about her Celtic roots and wants to share her passion with others.
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Twenty years after leaving school, a County Antrim mum of two returned to full-time education at Northern Regional College in Ballymena to do a Foundation Degree. Alison Kyle from Cullybackey had a long-term career goal of working in health and social care and with her two young children at school, she felt ready to enrol on the Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care at the College.
Continue ReadingNRC Partners With Northern Trust And Cedar Foundation To Put Students’ Needs First
Thursday
25th March 2021
A strong partnership between Northern Regional College and the Northern Health and Social Care Trust has allowed a young student to pursue an education at the College’s Magherafelt campus. Twenty-year-old Laura Chaney from Moneyglass has profound physical needs: she has cerebral palsy and uses a manual wheelchair; she has no speech and is PEG fed. Stephen McCartney, Head of Section of The College’s Student Services team, explained how the College had worked in close collaboration with the Trust to get a suitable care and support package in place for Laura before her Transition2College course got underway in September 2020.
Continue ReadingAnimation Students Shortlisted for Royal Television Society NI Student Awards
Wednesday
24th March 2021
Two talented young animators who completed a BTEC Level 3 in Animation at Northern Regional College in Coleraine have been shortlisted for the prestigious Royal Television Society NI Student Awards. Lyndsay Clarke and Phillip Steele’s short animation ‘Backed into a Corner’ was completed in collaboration with Coleraine PSNI and designed to raise awareness about child abuse.
Continue ReadingNRC Apprenticeship Collaboration With Ryobi Recognised With Award Nomination
Tuesday
23rd March 2021
The strong collaborative partnership between Northern Regional College and Ryobi Aluminium Casting UK Ltd has been shortlisted for the Large Employer Award, one of the four categories for Northern Ireland Apprenticeship Awards. The awards will be presented next month during NI Apprenticeship Week which is a weeklong celebration to showcase apprenticeship training opportunities and highlight how apprenticeships can be a productive way grow talent to help businesses grow and support the wider economy.
Continue ReadingNI Apprenticeship Week to Showcase Apprentice Opportunities
Tuesday
16th March 2021
Apprenticeship opportunities at Northern Regional College will be showcased during the second annual Northern Ireland Apprenticeship Week (April 26-30 2021). Led by the Department for the Economy, in partnership with the other five further education colleges, universities, private training providers, local councils and employers, Apprenticeship Week will celebrate the success of apprenticeships.
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