Weymouth College, led by staff member Hilary Yuille began its ‘Investors in Diversity’ journey in September 2012 with students, internal and external stakeholders taking part in an equality and diversity survey. Principal of the College, Liz Myles said: “The journey and achievement of the standard gives a positive message...
Weymouth and Portland Outdoor Adventure, construction and engineering students at Weymouth College have had a unique opportunity to restore a yacht, which was donated to the College in the last couple of months. Previously, the yacht was sailed by Roger Cain whose wife donated it to the College, as...
Last year Dr Francis Biley, an innovative and compassionate academic mental health nurse, very sadly died. On 31 January 2013 he will be awarded a posthumous Professorship in Nursing by Bournemouth University, which will be received by his widow Anna in recognition of his achievement as a scholar and...
The Arts University College at Bournemouth (AUCB) is delighted to announce that it will soon become the Arts University Bournemouth (AUB) following a ministerial decision released today. The Government announced in June that the qualifying threshold for full university title was to be lowered from 4,000 to 1,000 full-time...
Having triumphed in the South West regional heat of SkillBuild, the UK’s largest multi-trade competition, three of Weymouth College’s Stonemasonry apprentices, Thomas Whitehead (22), Darek Malecki (32) and Edward Shaw (30), from Weymouth, Cheddar and Chichester attended the national competition at Preston College between the 12th and 14th September;...
Liz Myles, the new Principal of Weymouth College has announced that 20 A levels will be offered from September 2013 and 30 from September 2014. Following yet another successful year for student achievement (99% pass rate) the decision has been made to re introduce an aspect of student learning...
I received the following letter from Greg who works in the south of England:" I'm an ICT specialist. I teach Year 5 and 6 children to code iPhone apps. I was known throughout the authority for my subject knowledge in ICT.Anyway, we were inspected in December 2010. I was...
A good deal of excellent things have been written about GCSEgate and it will be very interesting to see how Ofqual, the exam boards and Michael Gove manage to wriggle out of it. Most teachers and headteachers with direct responsibility for students sitting the English papers are convinced that...
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I really love many kinds of sport. What I don't want or need, though is to be told that the people I must admire and support belong to this or that nation or this or that team. I want that to be my choice and to for me to...
