Students from New College have released the first edition of their newspaper the ‘New College Press’ as part of the New College Newspaper Club. This edition marks the first release, with more in the pipeline for future release. The newspaper covers a wide variety of different aspects that the students come across, both in college
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Business students from New College have reached the semi-final round of a national business event. They achieved 47th place out of over 5600 groups, gaining them automatic qualification to the semi-final round. Student Thomas Bartle, Louis Skerrett, Joshua Rodriguez and Victor Tang form the Electronic Smarts team, and they will compete over four weeks starting from
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Our final open event of the academic year takes place on Thursday 21st March 2019 from 5-7pm. This is a great opportunity to come in and speak to students and staff in all of our subject areas. Come and find out about our wide range of A-Levels and Level 3 BTECs and sample the unique
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New College’s Public Services student, Stephanie Fishwick, 17 from Pontefract, is currently starring in Channel 5’s ‘Raw Recruits’ which follows the basic training course taken by Britain’s junior soldiers at the Army Foundation College in Harrogate. Stephanie said “I signed up to the Army at aged 15 and started [at the Army Foundation College] on March
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New College’s consistency as a provider of excellent post-16 education has once again come into the spotlight with the release of the latest figures from the Department for Education (DfE). The figures, based on last summer’s A-Level results, show that whatever post-16 option you are considering – school sixth forms, FE colleges, a sixth form
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New College Pontefract’s Y12 students of Business made the most of a fantastic opportunity on Wednesday when they were visited by representatives of the National Skills Challenge for 2019 in partnership with Natwest. The aim of the campaign is to develop individual and interpersonal competencies of students by designing tasks that require a vast number
Read MoreStudents at New College Pontefract had a great opportunity to learn and develop their skills when PhD students from the University of Leeds paid them a visit to present a STEM challenge. Y13 students studying both Maths and Science courses were treated to the guest lecture, and then presented with an engineering-themed challenge which was
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New College Pontefract Textiles students have been working on a catwalk brief to produce ‘Objects of Desire’ for a project inspired by the company ‘Anthropologie.’ Cath Gray, Textiles tutor said “We get the students to discuss employability and where their studies could lead them. Currently we have past/ex students who design for big name companies such as ASOS and Charlotte Tilbury and
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Developing strong links with the wider community helps New College students grow into mature young adults. Students and staff contributed a range of items to a gift drive, which members of the Student Executive at New College Pontefract then delivered to Pinderfields Hospital Children’s Ward in Wakefield. As part of the group’s charity fundraising events,
Read MoreMusic, Performing Arts and Music Enrichment groups came together at St. Giles Church in Pontefract today to put on a Christmas concert. Check out our gallery of photos from the event here:
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