Northern Regional College Science Student is 1 of 5 students from UK to secure a science scholarship
Wednesday
31st May 2023
Northern Regional College Science student, Georgia Rafferty, is one out of 5 students from UK who has been offered a scholarship to attend this year’s International Science School programme in Sydney, Australia. Georgia Rafferty, a 18-year-old student studying Level 3 BTEC in Applied Science at the College’s Newtownabbey campus, applied for the science programme at the University of Sydney after receiving a communication from Nuffield Research Placement and decided to put her philosophy, ‘if you don’t apply, you never know’ to the test.
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Budding entrepreneurs from all six FE Colleges in Northern Ireland have been pitching their business ideas to judging panels at the sector final of the Project Based Learning Competition (PBL). The 2023 Competition, hosted by Northern Regional College’s Entrepreneurship Hub, was open to all full-time and part-time students. Each college hosted their own preliminary qualifying round with the top entry in each of the four categories - Entrepreneurial, Sustainability, Innovation and Social Impact - going through to the final at Northern Regional College’s Newtownabbey campus which was held recently.
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Northern Regional College had the pleasure of hosting a WorldSkills International Pressure Test (IPT) for the Robot Systems Integration Skill within the Farmlodge campus, Ballymena. The competition took place in the centre of the campus where visitors and students alike would congregate and observe the competitors at work.
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Christy Kneeland, a talented and hardworking student from Northern Regional College, has secured a highly sought-after apprenticeship position with BT. This is a significant achievement for Christy, who has demonstrated time and again his dedication to his studies and chosen career path. Christy is studying the Level 3 Extended Diploma in IT at the Coleraine Campus and went through a rigorous selection process with over 2000 applications.
Continue ReadingNorthern Regional College Travel and Tourism Student secures a place at Camp America
Wednesday
24th May 2023
Northern Regional College Travel and Tourism student, Sarah Gilmore will be jetting off to Boston in America to work at Camp America this summer. Following her dreams to explore the world of travel, Sarah enrolled on the Level 2 Diploma in Travel and Tourism at the College’s Coleraine campus. It wasn’t long after she started the course that she wanted to take her passion for travel one step further and decided to apply for a work placement at Camp America.
Continue ReadingFormer Foundation Degree in Health & Social Care “has thrived from her time at Northern Regional Co
Tuesday
23rd May 2023
A Belfast mother, only has ‘good words’ to say about her daughter, Paris’s experience and journey at Northern Regional College. Paris is a graduate from the Foundation Degree in Health & Social Care at the College and having completed the associated ‘top up’ year to be awarded the BSc (Hons) in Health & Wellbeing is now in her first year of a Degree in Social Work at Ulster University.
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