A wildlife corridor and student sanctuary cleaned up at yet another awards ceremony
Fresh from winning the Business category at the inaugural Bionet Awards, the wellbeing garden at Coleg Cambria Deeside received a prestigious prize from Keep Wales Tidy. The college’s Jobs Growth Wales+ team, which oversees maintenance of the space, was presented with the Caru Cymru (Love Wales) Business prize at the Tidy Wales Awards in Cardiff. […]
Coleg Cambria has launched a new crime-fighting course for the next generation of super sleuths
The BTEC Level 3 Applied Diploma in Criminology is the equivalent to an A Level and will be taught at the college’s Deeside Sixth Form Centre. Beginning in September, the programme includes modules on the social construction of crime, policy development, evaluating theories of crime, crime and punishment, from crime scene to courtroom and comparing […]
Coleg Cambria learners helped officers take aim at criminals on a day of cross-border police operations
As part of a programme organised by North Wales Police, British Transport Police and Cheshire Constabulary, Uniformed Public Services (UPS) students engaged in activities centred around the joint campaign Operation Crossbow, focused on disrupting cross-border criminality. The day began with a convoy of police operational vehicles, which made their way from Chester to Cambria’s Deeside site. […]
A popular day nursery was deemed ‘Excellent’ in all areas
Toybox Children’s Nursery – based at Coleg Cambria Deeside – received an outstanding report from Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW). The setting received an ‘Excellent’ rating in four categories – Wellbeing, Care and Development, Leadership and Management, and Environment – and no recommendations were given as standards are so high. Caring for more than 90 children, […]
It’s game on for a cutting-edge college course that has moved through the levels since being launched a year ago
The popular Esports programme at Coleg Cambria has grown in popularity and is attracting learners from across the region to a bespoke, state-of-the-art facility in Deeside. As well as completing modules in areas such as Games Design, Live-Streamed Broadcasting, Producing an Esports Brand, and Video Production as part of the Level 2 Diploma, a further […]
A flourishing wildlife garden unveiled earlier this year has already won an award for conservation
The new wildlife corridor and wellbeing garden at Coleg Cambria Deeside received a prize in the Business category at the inaugural Bionet Awards, held at Venue Cymru, Llandudno. Bionet, the local nature partnership for north east Wales, praised the college for the creation of a biodiverse area featuring more than 2000 native bulbs, fruit trees, […]
Seven apprentices have become the first to graduate from an innovative collaboration between a civil engineering firm and a college
Employer Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK and Coleg Cambria – based in Wrexham, Deeside, Northop and Llysfasi – have modernised the approach to delivering higher apprenticeships in civil engineering. Traditionally, students would be on day release throughout the programme, spending four days of the week on site with the employer, with the fifth day at […]
COLEG CAMBRIA is to host a competition which inspires metalworkers of the future
Showcasing the skills of talented young metalworkers from across the UK, the college – which has recently been awarded World Skills UK Centre of Excellence status – will hold the Engineering Skills Competitions Sheet Metalwork Technology National Final. The annual competition is a culmination of regional qualifiers where 35 competitors put their skills to test […]
As part of Toyota Deeside Engine Plant’s 30 year celebrations they donated another hybrid vehicle to Coleg Cambria Deeside
Natalie Morris, Senior Specialist at Toyota, handed over the keys during an event attended by Elfyn Evans, Toyota’s World Rally Racing driver – along with his Yaris GR vehicle, and Jason Stanley, General Manager of Toyota GB Marketing. Nick Tyson, Vice Principal for Technology, Engineering and Construction at the college accepted the donation and hosted […]
A prominent landscape supply firm laid the ground for improvements at a blooming wildlife garden
Organised by Alyn and Deeside MS Jack Sargeant, Sealand-based Dandy’s Topsoil and Landscape Supplies kindly donated bark mulch to the ‘wildlife corridor’ and wellbeing garden at Coleg Cambria Deeside. CEO Adam Dandy said: “We’re so glad our donation will help transform the new growing area at the college. “We are known for our giveaways to local […]