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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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Metamorphosisby 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
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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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New grant scheme for sixteen-year-olds still not widely known about, says Calderdale College
A new grant scheme for 16-year-olds continuing in any kind of further education is still not widely known about in spite of a government publicity campaign, according to the head of student services at Calderdale College.
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Calderdale College brings seaside to town
The seaside came to Halifax today when Calderdale College held its ‘Euro 2004 Beach Party & Open Day’ to pull in prospective students and launch its new prospectus.
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Stephen Beats Dyslexia to produce fund raising calendar
A calendar raising funds for the dyslexic association has been produced by a photographic student at Calderdale College who has himself battled with severe dyslexia. Stephen Wyatt, 39, came to Calderdale College in 2001 as a basic skills student with low self-confidence and self esteem having had a series of dead end labouring jobs.
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Calderdale College Student chosen as Senior Learner of the Year
Nigel Goody, a student at Calderdale College, has been chosen as Senior Learner of the Year by NIACE (The National Institute for Continuing Adult Education). He will receive his award at a presentation in London on Monday 17 May at the launch of Adult Learners’ Week.
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Students celebrate asian fashion and dance
Asian fashion and dance is to be celebrated at the Square Chapel on Wednesday 7th April in a show organised by students from Calderdale College.The fifteen students, male and female, have planned the evening as part of the College’s Millennium Volunteers programme to raise money for the NSPCC.
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First Time Watercolour classes offered in new college centre
Would-be artists are being offered watercolour classes for the first time by Calderdale College. These are to be held in the College’s new Creative & Conservation Skills Centre, opened by the Duke of York on 4 March.
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