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Saturday, November 23, 2024
Dorset County Council has set out proposals in a paper going to Cabinet on 17 October for a redefined relationship between the council and schools and academies across Dorset. The aim of the proposals is to bring about school improvement through the creation of a new Dorset School Improvement Board...
With the 200th anniversary of The Peterloo Massacre in 2019 and the release of the new Mike Leigh film on November 9th, a look at its connections and aftermath via the county of Dorset would seem most fitting. The Clubmen movements of 1645 in Dorset were a direct reaction against Parliamentarian...
Arts University Bournemouth’s Fashion School is proud to announce that its graduates have scooped seven awards at London Graduate Fashion Week, including the prestigious Gold Award, making AUB officially the best graduate collection of 2018! Each year Graduate Fashion Week, the largest graduate fashion event in the world, takes over...
Dorchester Agricultural Society funds local school farm visits
Dorchester Agricultural Society paid for 120 pupils from Jewell Academy, a primary school in Bournemouth, to visit North West Farm in Winterborne Kingston. The Society set up the Dorchester Agricultural Society 1840 Education Fund three years ago to provide Dorset schools with knowledge of agriculture, horticulture and rural enterprise. It...
Katy Dore-Smith, Sharon Mackett, Martin McAndrew, Diane Granell, Maria Hollington, Matt Butcher, Carina George
Bournemouth & Poole College has launched its new Digital Skills Centre to help meet the demand of employers looking to hire young people with digital-related qualifications. The recent Tech Nation report has stated that the tech sector is expanding 2.6 times faster than the rest of the UK economy, with...
Celebrity hairdresser, Lee Stafford, with students at the launch of the Lee Stafford Hair Academy at The Bournemouth and Poole College's Lansdowne
Young people are encouraged to learn a celebrity hairdresser’s best techniques at the only Lee Stafford Hair Academy in the south west. Bournemouth & Poole College launched the new academy with the help of Lee Stafford in October last year. Lee has gained national recognition and numerous awards for his...
Rebekah Coppard, former Bournemouth & Poole College student achieves dream job as Virgin Atlantic cabin crew
A former Bournemouth & Poole College student has travelled to more than 20 destinations since achieving her dream job as Virgin Atlantic cabin crew. Rebekah Coppard, 25, studied the Diploma in Air Cabin Crew at the College, which provides people with the relevant skills and qualifications to pursue a career...
L-R Sarah Gault, Bournemouth & Poole College hospitality lecturer, student Chloe Carlton and Josephine Pearce, lecturer at the College
Four Bournemouth & Poole College Hospitality and Catering students are celebrating after making their way into the final of the Institute of Hospitality’s Southern Branch Student of the Year Awards 2018, with one even taking the prize for Front of House Student of the Year. The ceremony, which took place...
Art student delivers impressive presentation at regional finals of the ARTiculation Prize 2018
The Roche Court Educational Trust New Art Centre in Salisbury was the venue for the regional finals of the ARTiculation Prize 2018. Ashleigh Smith, Level 3 BTEC Visual Arts Extended Diploma student from Bournemouth & Poole College, delivered an impressive presentation on Jean-Michel Basquiat's 1988 painting 'Riding with Death'. The ARTiculation...
Bournemouth & Poole College Year 2 FdA Performing Arts students in the studio at the Lighthouse in Poole
Bournemouth & Poole College has been awarded third place in the national Whatuni Student Choice Awards (WUSCA) for the Further Education College category. The WUSCAs take place every year to get an overview of student satisfaction in higher education across the UK. For the first time this year, three new...