South Essex College is celebrating National Apprenticeship Week this week (8-14 Feb), promoting the training route, students and industries involved in the sector. The week will see the college share lots of apprenticeship themed content from their website, social media channels and YouTube platform, including hints and tips on how to access apprenticeship information for […]
CHILDREN at Thameside Primary School were thrilled to receive 20 brand new Chromebooks from the Riverside Community Big Local.
TUESDAY 9 February is Safer Internet Day and a great time to sign up for one of the free digital skills, adult training classes available at Thurrock Adult Community College this Spring.
THE pandemic has presented many different challenges across communities, particularly mental health. University Centre South Essex shares three different stories of a graduate,
SOUTH Essex College is holding a virtual open event for its brand new Centre for Digital Technologies in Basildon town centre.
STUDENTS at USP College are celebrating GCSE results well above the national average after the College achieved a record-breaking outcome from exam resits taken in November.
IS your hair growing into a lockdown beast? Thurrock Adult Community College is offering a free online Saturday webinar to help you learn the basic skills you need to tidy up hair, until we can all get to our hairdressers again!
SUPPORTED internship programme creates future prospects for additional learning students.
SCHOOLS in England will not be able to fully re-open after the half-term break next month but could begin to return from 8 March, the prime minister has said.
KEEP learning through lockdown with adult education courses to reduce isolation, improve your mental health and wellbeing and help you retrain for work.
THURROCK Council will commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday 27 January with online tributes from schoolchildren, councillors and the Thurrock community.
STUDENTS studying on the level 3 and level 2 Media Make up course were given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to complete their work experience on the set of the upcoming film, Rise of The Foot Soldier 5.
THE final week of the autumn term saw students studying at USP College treated to virtual visits from experts and industry specialists from across a range of sectors.
SCHOOLS in England will be given two weeks’ notice before reopening, the education secretary has said.
ASDA has today announced that it is working with Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) to provide 7,000 laptops to schools across the UK to help those children who are at risk of falling behind in their education because they do not have the technology to take part in online lessons during lockdown.
CHILDREN in England will be able to access books online free during school closures via a virtual library.
UNIVERSITY Centre South Essex is on the lookout for volunteer mentors to take part in the new Future Steps mentoring programme. The project is aimed at young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to have the access and knowledge to higher education opportunities.
YORKSHIRE Building Society has launched six online lessons of its financial education programme Money Minds, to support parents, carers, teachers and all Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 primary school pupils as well as Key Stage 3 secondary pupils through the coronavirus pandemic.
SOUTH Essex College is launching a number of courses for adults to start in spring 2021.
UNIVERSITY Centre South Essex graduate James Lester has secured his dream job in interactive design.
LEVEL3 IT students at USP College Palmer’s Campus have been working with Tail to Tell, a doggy day care and home boarding service based in Billericay, to develop a website for them.
SCHOOLS will have to train staff in up to seven different roles and get government sign-off on dealings with the press under plans for a mass Covid testing regime due to be launched next year. The Department for Education announced today that rapid-result lateral flow tests would be sent to all secondary schools and colleges from […]
AVIATION students raise money for local homeless charity Level 3 Aviation Operation students at South Essex College have been raising money for local homeless charity, HARP Southend.Over the last few weeks, three students, Megan, Kate and Emily at the Southend campus, organised a charity raffle and GoFundMe page to raise money for a great cause. […]
PUPILS at Purfleet Primary Academy have been treated to a Winter Wonderland experience in the school hall.