News
As a vibrant FE College, there is always a huge amount of activity going on both internally within the College, externally across the South Wales region and within FE sector generally. As a College, we proactively work with academic and support departments, as well as external agencies to promote their news, features and successes.
The College Marketing Team handle all forms of communication:
- Media
- Student
- Stakeholder/Community
- Internal
- Tutor of the Year
- 14/05/2012
- Bridgend College is delighted to announce that David
Bassett, a Professional Catering Lecturer, has been awarded
the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ and ‘Tutor of the
Year 2012’ at the NIACE Dysgu Cymru Inspire Learning
Awards. Read more >>
- Students through to final of Britain's Got Talent
- 10/05/2012
- Bridgend College is celebrating the success of staff and
students who have made it through to the final of *Britain's
Got Talent* on ITV this weekend. Read more >>
- Childcare Students Benefit from Studying Bilingually
- 10/05/2012
- From this September 2012, Bridgend College will be
delivering their Cache Level 3 Children’s Care Learning &
Development[[sitetree_link id=137]]programme in both English
and Welsh, allowing Welsh speaking students from local
Comprehensives such as Ysgol Llanhari and Ysgol Gyfun
Gymraeg Llangynwyd and other Welsh medium Schools in the
area to continue learning through the medium of Welsh into
further education. Read more >>
- Work Placement Partnership with St David’s Hotel & Spa
- 10/05/2012
- Bridgend College recently welcomed Kathryn Cochrane, Head of
Human Resources, Angharad Williams, Special Events
Co-ordinator and Dominic Powell, Senior Sous Chef, from St
David’s Hotel and Spa to the College to explore greater
work placement opportunities for our students at the Hotel. Read more >>
- Chloe interviews Michael Sheen
- 02/05/2012
- Chloe Carter, 19, studying the Level 3 Extended Diploma in
Creative Media Production[[sitetree_link id=96]]at Bridgend
College recently had the pleasure of interviewing Welsh star
Michael Sheen at the premiere of his new film 'The Gospel of
Us' at the Apollo Cinema in Port Talbot. Read more >>
- Bridgend College Hosts Prestigious IT Skills Competitions
- 01/05/2012
- Bridgend College hosted the prestigious Skills Competition
Wales Final and Worldskills Regional Heat on 27 April 2012,
welcoming budding IT professionals to compete in one of four
categories - Cisco Network Technician, Microsoft
Applications Specialist, Microsoft IT Technician and Web
Design, with Bridgend College IT students winning a
number of the awards. Read more >>
- Student Wins Welsh Heat of Dulux Apprentice of the Year
- 27/04/2012
- Shelley Fantham has been named winner of the Welsh heat of
Dulux Decorator Centre’s Apprentice of the Year
competition. Read more >>
- Gold for Tata Steel Apprentice
- 27/04/2012
- Tata Steel electrical apprentice and Bridgend College
student Daniel Hughes won the gold medal at the Welsh Final
of the UK Skill M&E (mechanical and electrical) competition
held at Gower College, Swansea. Daniel has now qualified for
a place at the All UK Finals at the NEC in Birmingham from
15-17 November 2012. Read more >>
- Bronze Award for ‘A Dream Journey’ at RHS Show
- 23/04/2012
- Bridgend College is delighted to announce that a garden
designed and created by higher education Landscape
Construction & Garden Design students, has scooped the
Bronze Award at this year’s RHS Show, in Cardiff. The
highest award made was Silver for the show gardens. Read more >>
- Working Wonders Students Support BBC ‘Give an Hour’ Campaign
- 18/04/2012
- 18 Working Wonders, business administration students have
become digital champions and ‘give an hour’ a week of
their time to help local people over the age of 60 to get
online. Read more >>
- Skills Competition Wales Success
- 18/04/2012
- BEAUTY THERAPY Read more >>
- Celebrating the Success of Students at Annual Awards Evening
- 28/03/2012
- Read more >>
- MP welcomes RAF Presentation Teams to Bridgend College
- 02/04/2012
- Madeleine Moon, MP for the Bridgend constituency welcomed
two RAF Presentation Teams to the Sony Theatre, Bridgend
College on Thursday 22 March 2012. Read more >>
- Winners of the Chwarae Teg Design Contest
- 12/03/2012
- The winners of the Chwarae Teg Design Contest were announced
on Thursday 8 March 2012 as part of Chwarae Teg’s 20th
Anniversary Celebration at the National Waterfront Museum,
Swansea, with four of the five awards going to Bridgend
College students. Congratulations to: Read more >>
- Hat Trick for Bridgend College and Swansea City FC
- 06/03/2012
- They say things come in threes and that has been the case
for Bridgend College and premier league club Swansea City
Football Club (FC). This week Brendan Rodgers, Swansea
Football Club (FC) Manager and Mark Jones, Bridgend College
Principal, met to formalise a relationship that has been
developing over the last couple of years. Read more >>