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VQ Day - Weymouth College shouts about student success

By weycol_2010 at 15:28 on 23/06/11

VQ (Vocational qualifications) day is about celebrating Vocational Achievement and Weymouth College has plenty to shout about. The government acknowledges their value by and is investing in vocational educational routes for school leavers. VQ day is all about telling stories about real students and their vocational success. Whilst studying Level 2 and 3 Beauty Therapy, Suzanne Scott opened up her own beauty salon in...
Student Stonemason Continued Success

By weycol_2010 at 10:22 on 02/06/11

Peter Loizou's stone carving success continues as he gets 2nd place in the apprentice/student category of the annual European Stone Festival. This year's festival was held in Freiburg, Germany and saw 150 masons taking part over the two days of the festival. Weymouth College's lecturers Richard Mortimer and Darren Lawrence and the Dorset Skills Centre manager Mark Woodward took 10 stonemasonry students along to the event....
FREE Creative Arts Showcase

By weycol_2010 at 14:08 on 26/05/11

Thursday 16th June, 5.00-8.00pm at Weymouth College and The Bay Theatre Foundation degree final show Tour facilities: Art, Media, Drama, Dance, Music, Music Technology, and see some of the students work Meet the students and staff Find out about courses in the School of Creative Arts View the architect plans for our state-of-the-art media facility "The Hive" which is opening September 2011 Try your hand at some...
Keeping traditional skills alive

By weycol_2010 at 09:44 on 26/05/11

The Boss Stone Carving Competition is a week-long event annual event held at Weymouth College's Dorset Skills Centre in Poundbury. This year's overall winner has also recently been chosen as the winning entry for the design of the new monument to Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton on Manor Roundation in Weymouth. Peter Loizou, 36 from Bridport, won the Boss Stone Carving Competition for the second year running, scooping the...
5-star student experience

By weycol_2010 at 15:41 on 19/05/11

A group of Travel and Tourism students from Weymouth College took a tour of a luxury 5-star hotel this week, part of their regular visits to industry to gather experience for when they enter the sector as employees. Year 2 students from the BTEC Extended Diploma in Travel & Tourism were shown around Summer Lodge in Evershot, part of the luxury Red Carnation Hotel Group. The tour included the spacious grounds, several...

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Students visit top tourist spot in Spain

By Buymyhouse

wow! compulsory trip to Spain! what a hardship! Not sure what peer assessing is. And how can there...

By weycol_2010 at 16:12 on 26/05/11

Weymouth College's BTEC National Diploma in Travel and Tourism 1st and 2nd year students visited Spain's most popular tourist destination this month to find out what makes it so special. Lecturer Tonia Fisher explains why they chose Salou as this year's destination: "As a destination, Salou has the scope to appeal to a variety of visitors, for example, city break customers visiting Barcelona, families visiting the...
Making waves for 500 days to go

By Buymyhouse

I must admit I thought all this stuff about Olympic values was a load of guff. But reading what...

By weycol_2010 at 13:17 on 08/04/11

Students at Weymouth College wanted something to recognise their feelings about hitting the milestone of 500 days to go until the start of the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games. Hosting the sailing events in Weymouth & Portland gave the College's art department a great idea for an installation based around sails and waves. Sandra Stalker, Art and Design Technician at the College, created the 3 metre high sails...
Weymouth and Portland school 'shock' suspensions - if you're a student, parent or teacher, what's your experience? Is it really that bad?

By alfiebass

After reading this story, there will be some children who are due to go to secondary school in...

By Margery_H at 11:35 on 26/08/10

There's a story in the Echo today about 'shock' figures relating to school suspensions and exclusions in the Weymouth and Portland area. They've made a Freedom of Information request to Dorset County Council to find out the scale of the problem. According to their report, it's pretty bad, although it does say towards the end of the story that suspension can be anything from an afternoon out of school to a fortnight. According to the...