You may see seventeen-year-old Ben Roberts’ name on the big screen in the coming years. The Southern Regional College (SRC) student has been successfully accepted for a National Film and Television School Academy Residential with the British Film Industry (BFI) and is heading to England to complete an eleven-day sound specialism residential later this month. Ben is one of 66 …
A Belfast Met student is enjoying the opportunity of a lifetime getting hands on fashion experience in New York as part of a prestigious scholarship. Katie Murphy is a student on the BSc Hons Fashion Production & Business course, which has been training the next generation of fashion designers for the past six years. Katie, from Gorey in Co Wexford, …
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 …
Thirty students from Northern Ireland’s Further Education Colleges have been recognised as the first recipients of a Northern Ireland Traineeship at a ceremony in Stormont. The students, five from each FE College, were among the first cohort of students from Northern Ireland to complete a NI Traineeship. The new NI Traineeships enable school-leavers and adults to gain a qualification equivalent …
A lecturer, a creche team and the team responsible for entrepreneurship from South Eastern Regional College (SERC)have been selected from thousands of nominations to each win a Pearson National Teaching Silver Award. Aine McGreeghan, Engineering lecturer,was honoured with the Silver Award for Further Education Lecturer of the Year; the teamfrom Little SERC, the College’s creche at the Newcastle Campus,was honoured …
Southern Regional College is committed to serious change. The College’s Chief Executive Brian Doran has signed the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Accord; an initiative allied to the college and university sector which seeks to advance the role education has in delivering solutions to the biggest problems faced by the world. By signing the Accord, the College has made a commitment …
In the latest update to the ‘Bridges Project’, international partners of the Erasmus+ funded programme met in Southern Regional College’s Banbridge campus to undergo training in advance of the project’s August completion date. The Bridges Project aims to foster an inclusive education and training environment amongst adult learners, by providing much needed digital resources. The project’s specific objectives include improving digital …
The winners of the Department for the Economy’s annual Northern Ireland Apprenticeship Awards were announced today, 29 March. The awards celebrate employers, apprentices, and champions from a wide range of industries and occupations. Southern Regional College are delighted to announce that Conor Braniff, a level 2 floor and wall tiling apprentice at the College was presented with the ‘Apprentice of …
Southern Regional College students have won an incredible twelve medals at the SkillBuild NI Finals 2023 held by The Construction Industry Training Board NI (CITB NI). The SkillBuild competition is held annually each spring with top local construction apprentices competing to win titles in the categories; Brickwork, Cabinet Making, Carpentry, Electrical Installation, Joinery, Painting & Decorating, Plastering Dry Wall Systems, …
Isaac Bingham, a former student of Southern Regional College has been selected to represent the UK at Europe’s largest skills event, Euroskills, in September this year. Isaac will travel to Gdańsk in Poland where he will compete with 600 other skilled young professionals, under the age of 25, from 32 member countries including Germany, Switzerland, and France. Over 100,000 spectators …
