Northern Regional College’s Newtownabbey Campus is ‘up in lights’ this week to support raising awareness of pancreatic cancer. The College is joining with thousands of landmarks, public buildings and homes across the globe during November’s Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month to put a spotlight on a disease, which carries an alarmingly low survival rate of just 7%. The Newtownabbey Campus will glow purple – the colour associated with pancreatic cancer across the world – throughout the week in the run up to World Pancreatic Cancer Day on Thursday 21 November. For more information, visit purplelightsuk.org
Continue ReadingI’m Still Learning - Successful Entrepreneur Tells Northern Regional College Students
Wednesday
20th November 2019
The importance of lifelong learning has been highlighted by leading businessman Brian McConville, chair of the hugely successful MJM Group. Speaking to budding entrepreneurs at Northern Regional College in Newtownabbey this week, he said that even with 36 years in business, he is still learning and, maybe more importantly, still willing to learn.
Continue ReadingLooking to Kickstart a Career as a Computer Numerical Control (CNC) Machine Operator?
Wednesday
13th November 2019
Northern Regional College in conjunction with the Department for the Economy (DfE) are offering an opportunity for twelve individuals to gain the skills to take up Computer Numerical Control (CNC) roles within seven of Northern Ireland’s engineering & manufacturing companies:- Creative Composites, Lisburn, Datum Tool Design, Lisburn, Smiths Engineering, Ballymena, Moyola Precision Engineering, Castledawson, Crossen Engineering, Newtownards, IPC Mouldings, Carrickfergus and Whiskin Precision Engineering, Belfast.
Continue ReadingLargest ever Northern Regional College delegation to compete at prestigious ‘Skills Olympics’
Wednesday
13th November 2019
Some of Northern Ireland’s top apprentices and learners will be going for gold this week at the prestigious WorldSkills UK LIVE finals – the ‘Olympics’ of vocational skills. Nine Northern Regional College students fought off stiff competition, battling through the fiercely competitive inter-campus and regional qualifying rounds to secure their place, with the original entry of over 3,000 whittled down to just 500 for the national finals.
Continue ReadingBallymoney student to compete at prestigious ‘Skills Olympics’
Wednesday
13th November 2019
A graphic design student from Ballymoney is set to represent Northern Regional College in Birmingham at the World Skills UK LIVE Finals: the ‘Olympics of vocational skills’. Philip Park (17), who studies Level 3 Creative Media Production at the College’s Coleraine campus, fought off stiff competition in a series of inter-campus and regional qualifiers to secure his place at the prestigious national finals.
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A Northern Regional College welding student will represent Northern Ireland at the WorldSkills UK LIVE finals in Birmingham next week – the first ever welder to represent Northern Ireland at the prestigious national finals considered as ‘Olympics of vocational skills’. Tadas Dobrovlskis (24), who is studying Advanced Welding at the College’s Newtownabbey campus, moved to Northern Ireland from Lithuania after graduating with a Social Science degree in Logistics and Transport.
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