Northern Regional College has partnered with Doncaster College and University Centre in an innovative scheme to allow Childcare students to top up their qualifications. The scheme will give students from the College’s Ballymoney and Newtownabbey campuses the chance to gain extra credits and obtain a full Honours degree in Early Childhood Studies.
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Northern Regional College’s Newtownabbey campus played host to the intercampus heats of the SkillBuild NI competition. The competition, which is governed and run by the Construction Industry and Training Board NI (CITBNI), saw 35 trainees and apprentices from across the College battle it out to secure their place in the SkillBuild 2020 NI finals.
Continue ReadingNorthern Regional College champions sustainable money habits in National Student Money Week
Friday
31st January 2020
64% of students say that financial anxiety has affected their mental health. The National Association of Student Money Advisers (NASMA) is launching its ninth National Student Money Week, NSMW2020, supported by Blackbullion, in a move to help more young people to spend healthily and to encourage students to create positive and sustainable money habits. Social money app, Pingit, will also partner with the campaign. The campaign will run across the whole of the UK with 103 colleges and universities participating with a huge variety of activities to help students to “Spend Healthy, Live Healthy”.
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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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