Technicians from Toyota Centres throughout Northern Ireland recently attended an intense 2x1 day New Model Training course provided by the Toyota Academy based at Northern Regional College’s Farm Lodge campus Ballymena. The Toyota Academy provides Toyota Technicians with the expert skills and knowledge to service and maintain this highly technically advanced vehicle technology. Based on Toyotas recent investment in numerous new safety features on the Toyota Prius and Hybrid Rav4 that are set to be released to the market soon, a training session was provided to upskill all Toyota technicians.
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A new type of robot known as “collaborative” or “force limited” robot, which has the ability to work safely alongside humans was showcased today at an event hosted by Northern Regional College as part of collaboration between the College and the Northern Ireland Technology Centre at Queens University which is supported by the Connected Competitive fund.
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Northern Regional College Career Ready (Engineering) students from Ballymena, Farm Lodge campus recently attended a full day training at Caterpillar (Larne plant). Career Ready aims to provide young people (16-19 years) with a curriculum and guidance necessary to build rewarding careers and fulfilling lives. It does this by combining a rigorous industry validated curriculum for students with leading edge practice in education and business link activity.
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Over 40 counsellors recently attended a briefing session at the Northern Regional College, Newtownabbey campus, outlining requirements for supervising trainee counsellors on part-time counselling programmes. At Northern Regional College, we provide an extensive suite of part-time counselling qualifications, ranging from levels 2-6. This includes a Foundation Degree in Counselling, and a Level 4 certificate in Counselling studies (both are validated by Ulster University). We also offer a number of courses via CPCAB, the only awarding body in Europe to specialise in counselling qualifications. Many of the qualifications include a module on supervised practice. This briefing session provided counsellors with the knowledge required to enable them to supervise Northern Regional College Counselling students.
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Level 3 BTEC Engineering students from Northern Regional College Newtownabbey campus visited Ryobi Aluminium Castings last week to view the state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. This industrial visit was incorporated into their Properties and Applications of Engineering Materials Unit to help the students get a better understanding of how materials are processed and tested in local industry.
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Students at Northern Regional College Magherafelt and Newtownabbey campuses were visited by Jacob Robinson and Rebecca Neill as part of the PwC NI’s Tech Schools on Tour. Visiting 20 schools and colleges over a 2 week period, the main objective in delivering these presentations is to help create awareness around the Technology opportunities that exist within PwC, and to encourage students to study STEM subjects.
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