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2 September 2008
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This Week's News

• Resources
• Quality
• Pathways to Success
• GCSE Celebrations
• Learners' Successes Across Colleges
• Partnerships
• Sports

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Resources

Barry College offers new fast-track teaching degree
People who are involved in community education, teaching and training will be able to study for a fast-track education degree on a new course offered by Barry College.
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Wood Students Learn Traditional Skills - Coleg Llandrillo Cymru
Coleg Llandrillo Cymru has identified the need within the current and future construction skills market of North Wales to bring back some traditional woodworking skills.
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Quality

Yale College Achieves Careers Wales' Quality Award
Yale College is celebrating its professionalism yet again as it is declared officially one of the best places in Wales to help learners find a suitable career path.
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Pathways to Success

Career therapy for Barry College Learner Sophie
Local girl Sophie Baker has taken a step nearer to her dream career, gaining a job as an Occupational Therapist Technician at Llandough Hospital after graduating from Barry College in the summer.
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Back to learning ... with Mum! - Yale College
Yale College has helped Mold Mum and her two daughters achieve their ambition to go to university. Caroline Stark and her daughters Jodie and Kayleigh Chadwick together embarked on Access to Higher Education courses at the College and are now aiming higher as they prepare to attend university this September.
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GCSE Celebrations

Coleg Glan Hafren speaking in tongues for GCSE results
Coleg Glan Hafren, Cardiff's largest further education college will see over 450 GCSE results being collected by their students today. Out of the results, 30 part-time language students have performed the best with A-C grades achieved in Italian GCSE by 100% of students and in Spanish Higher GCSE by 87.5% of students and A-C in French GCSE by 80% of students.
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Deeside College students celebrate outstanding GCSE results!
Deeside College students have been celebrating with 99% overall pass rates in their GCSEs this year. Particularly outstanding results were seen in Science and Maths, with a 100% overall pass rate. Excellent results were also seen in English, with an overall pass rate of 98%.
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Coleg Llandrillo Cymru's Excellent GCSE Results
Coleg Llandrillo Cymru is celebrating after the publication of its excellent GCSE and Welsh Baccalaureate results. Students achieved a combined, overall GCSE pass rate of 98% at the Rhos-on-Sea Campus and at Coleg Llandrillo Rhyl, Coleg Llandrillo Abergele and Coleg Llandrillo Denbigh. Also, students achieved 100% pass rates in sixteen of the eighteen GCSE subjects.
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GCSE success for Swansea College
Students and staff at Swansea College are celebrating success with this year's GCSE exam results. This year 58% of entries achieved an A* - C grade, with a massive 96% of entries receiving a pass rate in the A* - G grades.
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Learners' Successes Across the Colleges

Former Merthyr Tydfil College Principal Honoured
Former College Principal Howard Jenkins has been honoured for helping school-leavers continue in education. He has been awarded the Chancellor's Medal for distinctive contribution to further education at the University of Glamorgan.
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It all adds up for college students – Swansea College
Students at Swansea College have smashed the worldwide success rates in their Association of Accounting Technicians [AAT] accountancy and payroll examinations.
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College Offers Highest Award for Tour Guides - Coleg Llandrillo Cymru
16 students have recently been awarded the Wales Blue Badge - the highest award for tourism guides in the UK - from the then National Assembly Culture Minister Rhodri Thomas. It was offered as a part of the Foundation Degree Award (FdA) in Tourist Guiding run by Coleg Llandrillo Cymru and the University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC), to meet the demand for top class tourism guides with modern languages. The group from all over Wales were the first students in the UK to embark on such training.
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Showing Signs of Success - Coleg Sir Gar
Coleg Sir Gâr is helping to boost the shortage of British Sign Language interpreters with a modular course which has achieved excellent results this year.
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Award Success for WCoH at Denbigh and Flint Show
The Welsh College of Horticulture is currently celebrating after being awarded the second place prize for its stand at the Denbigh and Flint Agricultural Show. The College was narrowly pipped to the first spot by just one point in the non-agricultural category.
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Medals Galore for Students - Coleg Llandrillo Cymru
Students from the award-winning Independent Living Skills department at Coleg Llandrillo Cymru recently competed for the College in the North Wales Games, coming away with over 20 medals!
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Partnerships

Community learning receives funding – Pembrokeshire College
Learning in the community was celebrated on Wednesday 20 August in the Learning Zone at the County Show with invited partners and guests. The Step Project will enable communities across Pembrokeshire to access free quality learning opportunities at a local community venue near them.
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Welsh College of Horticulture Pay Tribute to Local Firm that Prioritises Staff Development
The Welsh College of Horticulture will hold an awards ceremony on Friday 5th September at 11:30am for a local firm who has used a Welsh Assembly Government Project to up skill its entire workforce and expand its commercial potential.
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High Flying Apprentices become the first to benefit from unique partnership - Deeside College
Thomas Cook Aircraft Maintenance apprentices who study at Deeside College have become the first group from the College to pass the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Part 66 exam. The qualification licences Engineers to carry out maintenance and 'continuing airworthiness' checks on aircraft and must be held by certified Engineers working in the industry.
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Sports

Top athlete Kate will be flying the flag for Team GB - Coleg Gwent
Former Coleg Gwent student and top athlete, Kate Arnold will be flying the British flag as she competes in this year's Paralympics Games in Beijing.
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Wheelchair basketball classes at college – Swansea College
Swansea College has linked up with Disability Sport Wales and Swansea Storm to offer Wheelchair Basketball sessions.
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Deeside College's facilities help youngsters aim for the Olympics
Deeside College's outstanding athletics facilities are helping budding athletes from across North Wales to follow their Olympic dreams. The College's athletic facilities, which are ear-marked as potential training centres for athletes in the run up to the London 2012 Olympics, recently played host to a three day Star Track Athletics Camp.
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