Building on the success of the pioneering dementia friendly café at the Gilaroo Nursing Home in Larne, health and social care staff and students at Northern Regional College have helped oversee the launch of another dementia friendly café, this time in Newtownabbey. The Willow Tree dementia friendly café in Wood Green Residential Care Home has been spearheaded by Jacqui McAllister, Curriculum Area Manager for Health and Social Care at the College’s Newtownabbey campus. She explained the rationale behind the project:
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The entrepreneurial spirit is truly alive and well at Northern Regional College. Four of the top awards at the recent Young Enterprise NI Big Market trade event went to business students at the College’s Coleraine campus for their environmentally friendly candle sets Eco Wicks.
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Over seventy pupils from eight local schools took part in Ballymena Rotary Club’s annual technology challenge hosted by Northern Regional College. The pupils were all given the same basic equipment to complete the challenge and working in teams of four, they had brainstorm possible solutions before writing up their proposed solution and demonstrating how it worked.
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A Railway Track Apprentice at Northern Regional College has been shortlisted for the Northern Ireland Public Sector Apprentice of the Year Award. Danny McGinley, who gave up his full-time job as a bus driver with Translink to start a new career as a rail track technician, is now in the second year of the Rail Engineering programme.
Continue ReadingNorthern Regional College Inspiring the Next Generation of Female STEM Professionals
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11th March 2024
Northern Regional College hosted an interactive STEM careers event, to embrace, empower and inform young females of the range of STEM related professions, in celebration of International Women’s Day.
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The Open University has approved Northern Regional College as a new strategic validation partner launching 2024/2025, offering three new higher education (HE) programmes. From September 2024, subject to validation approval, students at Northern Regional College will be able to study for OU-validated Foundation Degree courses in Housing Practice and Cloud Computing with Cyber Security, and a Certificate of Higher Education in Health Care Practice.
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