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CHINESE
EDUCATION CHIEFS ON FACT FINDING TRIP TO
CALDERDALE COLLEGE
A
high level delegation of policy makers from the Zhejiang
province of China visited Calderdale College today
on a vocational education and training fact finding
trip.
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CHINESE
EDUCATION CHIEFS ON FACT FINDING TRIP TO
CALDERDALE COLLEGE
A
high level delegation of policy makers from the Zhejiang
province of China visited Calderdale College today
on a vocational education and training fact finding
trip.
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CHINESE
EDUCATION CHIEFS ON FACT FINDING TRIP TO
CALDERDALE COLLEGE
A
high level delegation of policy makers from the Zhejiang
province of China visited Calderdale College today
on a vocational education and training fact finding
trip.
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SUMMER
CONSTRUCTION SKILLS COURSE TO BOOST EMPLOYMENT
Places are still available on an eight week intensive course in construction
skills at the North Halifax Skills Centre in Ovenden, starting Tuesday 1st August.
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DAMIAN
GIBSON APPOINTED COACH TO NEW RUGBY LEAGUE
ACADEMY
Halifax Rugby League full-back, Damian Gibson, has been announced as coach
to the new Calderdale College Rugby League Academy, to be launched in September.
The Academy is designed for talented players aged 16 to 18 and will combine
eight hours of top level coaching and weekly fixtures with A-levels and vocational
qualifications, leading to employment in sports and related sectors.
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SKILLS FESTIVAL AT NORTH
HALIFAX SKILLS CENTRE
The
North Halifax Skills Centre in Ovenden is opening
up to the public with its first Skills Festival on
Friday 14 July. Learners will be displaying their
skills in construction, painting, decorating, hairdressing
and beauty at the centre in Calderdale Business Park,
Club Lane.
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CHAMPION
BRICKIE BRINGS HOME TROPHY
Novice bricklayer Phil Ayling, 19 has laid the
foundations for a brilliant career by becoming
senior winner of the National Bricklayers Guild
competition for Yorkshire & Humberside.
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PAINTINGS
IN THE PARK STEAL THE SHOW
Spring scenes of People’s Park caught the judge’s
eye in a painting competition for Independent
Living students from Calderdale College.
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GALA
FLOAT CELEBRATES FIFTY YEARS
Murals of Halifax landmarks, past and present, are to help mark the fiftieth
birthday of the Halifax Charity Gala which took place at Manor Heath on Saturday
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SUMMER
AUDITION DATES ANNOUNCED FOR NEW DANCE ACADEMY
Summer
audition dates for the new Calderdale College Dance
Academy have been announced for Sunday 11 June, Sunday
25 June and Sunday 9 July.
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Calderdale
College Performing Arts Department present
Ubu Roi By Alfred Jarry
Students
studying on the Btec National Diploma in Performing
Arts will perform Ubu Roi on
Wednesday 21st & Thursday 22nd
June 2006@7.30pm
Calderdale College Studio Theatre.
Ticket £4 full £3 concession call 01422 357357
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FORENSIC
SCIENCE QUALIFICATION NOW OFFERED AT CALDERDALE
COLLEGE
Fans
of CSI now have the chance to follow a career
in forensic science themselves with a new
two-year course at Calderdale College in
Francis Street.
The BTEC Diploma in Forensic Science, on offer at the college from September,
is equivalent to three A-levels. It is targeted mainly at year 11 school leavers
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FREE
DIY SESSIONS FOR WOMEN
Free DIY sessions for women are to lay bare the
mysteries of mending a leaking tap, putting up
shelves and mending a fuse.
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THE
FIRST VISUAL ARTS DEGREE IN CALDERDALE
::Art in the first degree:: is the exhibition of the FIRST group of final year
students to complete a BA (Hons) in Visual Arts Degree at Todmorden Community
College.
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COLLEGE
TRIBUTE FROM NO. 10
Calderdale
College’s contribution to improving
learning opportunities for 14 – 19-year-olds
was recognised this week when principal Monica
Box attended a reception at 10 Downing Street
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RUGBY
STAR ROPED IN TO PROMOTE HEALTHY LIVING
Rugby League star Stuart Fielden, who plays for Great Britain and Bradford Bulls,
was roped in to help promote Healthy Living Week at Calderdale College this week,
in a game of tug of war with students and staff.
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CURTAIN
RISES ON CALDERDALE COLLEGE DANCE ACADEMY
A
unique new dance academy for 16 – 18-year-olds,
offering two days of dance training in a
professional studio alongside A-levels and
vocational qualifications, was announced
today by Calderdale College, in partnership
with the Dorothy Stevens School of Dance
in Lightcliffe.
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NEW
WOMEN’S FOOTBALL ACADEMY IN LEAGUE
OF ITS OWN
Calderdale
College’s new Women’s Football Academy
will be in a league of its own, thanks to the backing
of England player Sue Smith.
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GROWING
A NEW FUTURE AT CALDERDALE COLLEGE
It
is set to be a blooming good year for gardeners
as Calderdale College prepares to launch a new
range of horticultural-based courses aimed at both
the amateur and professional alike.
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Greenland by
Howard Brenton.
The Studio Theatre, Calderdale College, 7:30pm 5th and 6th April 2006
It is 1987; the general election is in full swing and coming to its climactic
conclusion. To Joan this is her big moment, the time her party are going to
crush the opposition, bringing a new order to the British Isles. To Lord Ludlow
this is the end of all he knows and loves the end of an era. Until……..
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Metamorphosis
by Steven Berkoff
Venues
Calderdale College Theatre
Thursday 23rd March 7.30pm
Bingley Arts Centre
Tuesday 4th April 7.30pm
Grange Arts Centre - Oldham
Thursday 6th April 7.30pm
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Skinni
Theatre Co presents ‘Gut Girls’ by
Sarah Daniels
The 'gut girls' of Deptford, England, circa 1900, are rowdy, boisterous, have
mouths like sailors and are as strong as the oxen they gut. By day they are
up to their knees in freshly slaughtered animal entrails, but in the evenings
they are their own women
Venue:
Calderdale College Theatre
Performance Dates: Wednesday 29th, Thursday 30th March at
7:30pm
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WOMEN
BUILD CAREERS IN CONSTRUCTION
High
profile joiner, Julie Sullivan, is to provide a
role model to learners on Calderdale College’s
new women-only construction courses at the North
Halifax Skills Centre in Ovenden.
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£3M
PROJECT GETS CALDERDALE ON LINE
A
four-year project which has pumped in £3.016 million towards keeping
individuals and businesses in Calderdale on line with computer technology,
ends this month, with an announcement of a further £90,000 available
to local community groups for computer learning and hardware.ology)
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SPEED
NETWORKERS CELEBRATE ICT SUCCESS
Speed
networking’, the business world’s
answer to speed dating, came to Calderdale at
an event to celebrate the end of a four-year
project which has
helped over 225 small local businesses to flourish by developing their ICT (information
and computer technology) skills.
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BANNING
JUNK FOOD WINS STEWART LEARNING AWARD
Calderdale College
student Stewart Greenwood, has overcome personal hurdles to be chosen as one
of ten ‘Learners of the Year’ by awarding body ASET.
ollege last September
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STUDENTS’ VALENTINE
BALL RAISES DISASTER FUNDS
Love
might just be in the air at Calderdale College’s
first Valentine Ball, organised by students in
aid of the Asian Earthquake Disaster Fund and to
be held at North Bridge Leisure Centre on Friday
(10 February).
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BA
HONS ARRIVE IN HALIFAX!
Full
BA Honours degrees are to be offered for the
first time in Halifax from September in
three subjects. The new courses are among those
outlined in Calderdale
College’s new Higher Education Prospectus for 2006/7 and are in addition
to the top-up BA Hons degree in Visual Arts which began at Todmorden Community
College last September
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LAUNCH
OF CALDERDALE CONSTRUCTION SKILLS ACADEMY
The
next generation of skilled trades people celebrated
a groundbreaking initiative today, at the official
opening of a dedicated Construction Skills Academy
in Calderdale, solely for use by school pupils.
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FOOTBALL
ACADEMY TRIAL DATE ANNOUNCED
Talented young footballers from
across Calderdale and neighbouring towns, are
being offered the
chance to attend trials for September’s intake for
Calderdale College’s Football Academy on Monday 30 January.
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STUDENTS
RAISE EARTHQUAKE CASH
Students
at Calderdale College have been working to raise
funds and gather practical items for the victims
of the Asian earthquake disaster. To date, they
have collected £600 through car washes, collecting
boxes and an Indian meal and are appealing for
blankets and clothes, in particular coats and shoes.
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KICK-OFF
FOR NEW HALIFAX FOOTBALL ACADEMY
The
whistle blew for the official kick-off of Halifax’s
new Football Academy today (Thursday 24 November).
Veteran First Division footballer Wayne Allison,
who began his career with Halifax Town in the late
eighties, opened the Calderdale College Football
Academy in a ceremony at the Shay.
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New
Construction Academy agreed for upper valley
schools
The
creation of a new Construction Academy for pupils
wanting to learn trades while still at school has
been agreed by the heads of Calder High, Sowerby
Bridge High, Ryburn Valley High and Todmorden High
in a signing with Calderdale College today.
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Zimbabwe
meets Halifax
Wendy Pakarimwa’s mum has flown in all
the way from Zimbabwe to attend her daughter’s
award ceremony at Calderdale College on Friday (1st
July). Wendy, 30, from Lightcliffe, is one of sixty
learners to complete the one year Access to Higher
Education award in Health & Social Care, which
is the equivalent of two-and-a-half A-levels.
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Free
skills analysis leads to a business coach
Eighty delegates
from small to medium sized businesses in Calderdale,
attended
the launch of a new and innovative on-line ‘Skills
Analysis’ for business managers this week (Tuesday
5 July) at Calderdale College.
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Football
Academy announced for Halifax
Halifax is to join an elite band
of towns with a Football Academy. This announcement
came in a joint
statement today by Calderdale College and Halifax Town
Football Club, who will be offering the opportunity
for young people aged 16 – 18 to achieve their
full potential in football while pursuing educational
goals.
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College
puts on a 'Blooming good show'
Aspiring artists, actors, designers
and stonemasons are among those being urged
to visit the End of Year Show at Calderdale College’s
new Creative & Conservation Skills Centre,
funded by Action Halifax.
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College
launches free summer holiday classes
Budding DJs, beauticians and
artists are invited to sign up for a free one-month
course at Calderdale
College at the end of this month. The first-time courses
are targeted at 16 – 18 year-olds.
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Fledgling
design and music promotion business takes off
A graphic
design and music promotion team has become the
first fledgling
business to take advantage of start-up units
in the new Halifax Creative & Conservation
Skills Centre. The skills centre, based at Calderdale
College in Francis Street, was opened by the
Duke of York in March last year and funded by
Action Halifax.
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Sonia
proves she's a cut above!
Sonia Sutcliffe has got success
cut and dried after joining a Calderdale College
hairdressing course and winning an Adult Learners Award for her achievement.
She will receive her award of £100 from NIACE (the National Institute of
Adult Continuing Education) at a ceremony in Doncaster on Saturday.
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New
courses for 16 to 18 year olds at Calderdale
College
Click more for a detailed list of our new courses
especially tailored for 16-18's.
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'Fine Art students pull exhibition out
of the hat'
An exhibition of work by first
year HND Fine Art students and staff at Calderdale
College opens to the public this week. ‘Another One Out of the Hat’,
incorporating paintings and three-dimensional textiles, will be showing at
Gallery One in the College’s new Creative & Conservation Skills Centre,
funded by Action Halifax, between 9am and 4pm on weekdays until Friday 1 April.
Entry is free.
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College students
back fair funding lobby of Parliament
Students at Calderdale College
are backing a national campaign to close the funding
gap between school sixth forms and further education
or sixth form colleges.
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Free
short story course on offer
People
in Todmorden now have the opportunity to study
some of the most popular and successful short
stories of our time while achieving a national
literacy qualification. Skills for Life and
Todmorden Library have teamed up to put on
a free course looking at the plot, characters
and themes of some of the most famous short
stories ever written....
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Computer novices are in the money!
Computer novices from Todmorden
and Hebden Bridge had a reason to celebrate this
week. They
were the first learners to complete the new E-Quals
course at Todmorden Community College’s Optimum
Centre and to receive a £50 cash award for
doing so.
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Charlene
cruises into beauty job
Newly qualified beauty therapist Charlene Thewlis
has landed the job and trip of a lifetime with
Steiner Spas on board luxury cruise liners. Charlene,
just
18 and a student of Beauty Therapy at Calderdale College for two years, graduating
last summer, won the prestigious job with Steiner against stiff opposition from
older and more experienced beauty therapists
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Student balloon release boost tsunami
appeal
Students from Calderdale College boosted the
Tsunami Appeal fund this week with a mass balloon
release from the campus in Francis Street
"They have been desperate to do something to help and we thought that this
was one way of showing solidarity and getting lots of people involved as a student
body”,
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Calderdale College student wins top maths
award
Three international students studying
A-levels at Calderdale College have won top awards
in a prestigious national maths competition, the
UK Senior Mathematical Challenge.
Eighteen-year-old Sali Liu from China was awarded a gold prize which puts her
in the top six per cent in the UK. Last year she received a bronze.
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