Northern Regional College has gone smoke free – the first Further Education College in Northern Ireland and one of the few in the country to ban smoking completely. The smoke free policy, which was introduced at the start of the new academic year, means that smoking is no longer permitted anywhere inside College buildings or in the grounds. Previously smoking was only allowed in designated outdoor smoking areas.
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Northern Regional College is currently recruiting for a new graduate management programme which is being delivered as part of the Government’s response to COVID-19 recovery for the economy. Funded through the Department for the Economy’s Skills Intervention programme, the Future Leaders Graduate Management Programme will be run in collaboration with South Eastern Regional College (SERC), South West College (SWC) and North West Regional College (NWRC).
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Tour guiding students at Northern Regional College in Coleraine have created a virtual tour of the campus as a novel way to get around restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. A planned reunion for former staff and students at the Coleraine campus was one of the many events cancelled due to the lockdown. The reunion, scheduled for March 23 2020, had been billed as a nostalgic trip down memory lane and an opportunity for one last look around the old ‘tech’ buildings before the bulldozers moved in to clear the Union Street site to make way for a new state of the art campus.
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Northern Regional College has been awarded the NI Diversity and Inclusion Charter Mark in recognition of its commitment to promoting equality for all. The College’s Equality and Wellbeing Manager Fiona McDowell said the award was an acknowledgement of the work being done throughout the College to promote diversity and inclusion among staff and students.
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A Coleraine women who enrolled at Northern Regional College as a mature student has just started a new career as a classroom assistant in a local primary school. After leaving secondary school, Samantha Stewart went to university and graduated with a BA Hons degree in Humanities. She worked in accounts for over 12 years and then decided she needed a complete change.
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17th September 2020
Studying Health and Social Care at Northern Regional College has opened the door to academic success and set a Ballymena student on the road to fulfilling her dream of becoming a nurse. Grace Thompson has just completed a BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care at the College in Ballymena with a triple Distinction*, the equivalent standard of three A*s at A-level. She secured offers from all five universities she applied to and has accepted a place at Queen’s University Belfast to start an Adult Nursing degree in February 2021.
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