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1 HNC NEWS Meet the Fundraisers We celebrated a bumper Red Nose Day this year. Find out how we did. Anthony Nolan Our annual visit from the Anthony Nolan Trust was our most successful yet! Sport An update from the college’s sports teams. A NIGHT TO REMEMBER Huddersfield New College’s annual celebration evening took place at Huddersfield Town Hall in January. Read about the prizewinners and see exclusive photos from the event inside. SPRING 2013 news

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1HNC NEWS

Meet the FundraisersWe celebrated a bumper Red Nose Day

this year. Find out how we did.

Anthony NolanOur annual visit from the Anthony Nolan

Trust was our most successful yet!

SportAn update from the college’s sports

teams.

A NIGHT TO REMEMBERHuddersfield New College’s annual celebration evening took place at Huddersfield Town Hall in January. Read about the prizewinners and see exclusive photos from the event inside.

SPRING2013

news

2HNC NEWS

3//The Big Picture

8//Open Door

10//Meet The Fundraisers

16//Sport

Cover Story

A fantastic photograph from Performing Arts’ Bourne to Dance event in December.

Volunteers from the Anthony Nolan Trust came to college to talk to students about stem cell donation.

We made this year’s Red Nose Day the biggest and best yet.

Find out what our sportsmen and women have been up to recently.

A night to remember at Huddersfield Town Hall as we celebrated the achievements of the Class of 2012

I am always humbled by the amazing energy, enthusiasm and commitment of our students to these additional activities, especially those aimed at helping others less fortunate than themselves. They are a credit to themselves and to you, their parents.

One of our core responsibilities as a college is to ensure that your son/daughter achieves their very best during their time with us. The Easter break is virtually here and the summer exams start soon after we get back (the week beginning May 6th).

Please help by encouraging your son/daughter to use the Easter break to prepare for these exams, so that they can do themselves justice and achieve their very best. And I would like to take this opportunity to wish your son/daughter all the best for their forthcoming examinations.

I hope you and your family have an enjoyable Easter break and I look forward to welcoming your son/daughter back to college on Monday 14th April.

We hope that you will enjoy reading our end of term newsletter. You will find this newsletter filled with lots of information and updates on all the additional activities your son/daughter participates in at our college.

Welcome

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Angela Williams //Principal

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3HNC NEWS

Bourne to DanceTHE BIG PICTURE

BY ALEX CROSBY

The Performing Arts department’s annual dance showcase - this year titled Bourne to Dance - took place just before Christmas, and too late for inclusion in the last newsletter. In this shot Dance students Matthew Flinders and Amelia Fielding are performing a piece inspired by the 1990 motion picture Edward Scissorhands. The students choreographed the piece themselves especially for the showcase.

4HNC NEWS

Cover story

At Hudderfield New College we love any

excuse to celebrate the achievements of

our students - but this year we had even

more to celebrate.

The Class of 2012 achieved the best exam

results in the college’s history, and helped

cement our place in the top 10% of all

schools and colleges nationally for student

performance at advanced level.

The students who were invited to January’s

Celebration Evening - which took place

in the awe-inspiring surroundings of

Huddersfield Town Hall - were key to

the college being graded as ‘good with

outstanding features’ by Ofsted in October

2011.

This would not have been possible without

the hard work of these fantastic students,

who are great ambassadors for the college

and deserved this lavish send off.

Over 800 students and their families

descended on the Town Hall to applaud

prize winners, catch up with teachers and

give themselves the pat on the back that

they deserved after excelling themselves

for two fantastic years. We’re already

looking forward to celebrating the

achievements of the class of 2013.

The Class of 2012 achieved the best

results in the College’s history

A Night to RememberHuddERSFIEld NEW COllEGE’S CElEBRATION EvENING TOOk plACE AGAIN THIS yEAR TO CElEBRATE THE RECORd-BREAkING ClASS OF 2012

5HNC NEWS

HuddERSFIEld NEW COllEGE HAS HAd strong links with Castle Hill School for over five years now, and every year the Travel &Tourism students perform to the children as part of their BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma Course using Makaton. We’re very fortunate to have two Makaton Regional Tutors from Castle Hill School come to the college and teach our students how to ‘sign and sing’ to popular music – and we take requests from the Castle Hill pupils so that we can perform songs they want to see and hear. This year, the songs include Eyes Wide Shut by

JLS, Gold Forever by The Wanted, Money, Money, Money by Abba, What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction and Bring Me Sunshine which was made famous by Morecombe and Wise.

The Travel & Tourism students designed bright and colourful costumes and choreographed the dance routines for their performance. As ever the performance was a great success, and it was amazing to see all of the pupils dancing and signing together.

Our students love performing at Castle Hill and we can’t wait to go back again next year!

ACADeMy uPDATe

HNC’S WINNING STREAk CONTINuEd with a very impressive 2 - 1 victory over current league leaders Accrington & Rossendale. The starting 11 included eight first years, with Carter Russan, Jourdan Edwards and Tom Willans making their academy first team debuts.

Accrington & Rossendale took the early initiative and deserved their one goal advantage at half time. This lead may have been increased if it was not for two super saves from Edwards which kept HNC in the game. Despite Accrington having the lion’s share of possession in the first half, it was HNC who carved out the most clear cut chances in the half with the dynamic Tom Rose and Ryan Burchael almost scoring.

HNC started the second half with much more vigour and belief and took the game to Accrington. The introduction of Jonathan Crowther with 15 minutes to go proved critical when he headed in a goal from close range to level the match.

With only minutes remaining HNC continued to show the belief that would take them on to win the game. The final chance of the game fell to Burchael and he calmly slotted the ball past the oncoming keeper to take all three points back to New College.

The Accrington manager commented that we deserved the win and I couldn’t agree more. We are now two points from the league leaders with a game in hand. I am very proud of all the boys who contributed to this victory - one that will be remembered for a long time, I’m sure.

FOOTBALL ACADeMy BeAT TOP OF THe LeAGueBY JAMIE MARSDEN

Students sing and sign with Makaton

6HNC NEWS

Rebekah Drury

Governor’sProfile

Chair of the Search & Governance Committee and a member of the Remuneration Committee for the CorporationMy NAME IS REBEkAH dRuRy, and I have been a Governor at Huddersfield New College since 2010. However, my relationship with the College goes back further than that, as I was a student here myself between 1994 and 1996, when I studied A-Levels in French, German and English Language. I really enjoyed my time at HNC, so when I saw the advert for Governors I jumped at the opportunity to get involved with the College again!

When I first joined the Corporation (the College’s Governing Body), I was amazed at how much has changed since I left in 1996; the facilities now are fantastic and when I walk around the campus, it’s like being in a different place. Although the College is unrecognisable as a building compared with when I was a student back in the 90s, I still recognise the genuine commitment of the staff to provide the very best for each and every student, and if anything, I think this commitment has only grown stronger. The Senior Management Team, the whole staff and the Corporation all have a constant focus on continuing to provide a great education and all-round experience for students, as well as ensuring we have excellent facilities. Various departments have given presentations to Governors about their subject areas, and their passion has been impressive, as have the achievements of so many of the students and staff – I don’t think a week goes by when I don’t see a positive story about the College or its students in the Huddersfield Examiner, and every student and staff member I’ve met has been impressive.

So that’s a bit of an overview of my thoughts

on the College, but what is my role on the Corporation? You may have read articles by other Governors, so you might know that many Governors serve on committees as well as on the main Corporation.

I am the Chair of the Search and Governance committee. This committee has two main roles; one role is to ensure the right processes and policies are in place so that the Corporation governs effectively, and each year we carry out a Self Assessment Review and set ourselves an action plan to ensure that as a Corporation we‘re doing the best we possibly can for the College. The other main function of the committee is to ensure that the Corporation is made up of Governors with the right skills and experience to govern effectively. This means that we actively look for Governors with specialist skills and experience which will benefit the College, and we have members from a range of professions and industries; for instance I’m a Human Resources Manager, and we also have Accountants, Lawyers, Teachers, Marketing professionals and Police Officers to name but a few. However, professional skills are not the only important factor, and we seek to recruit Governors from a wide range of backgrounds, reflecting and encouraging the College’s commitment to Equality and Diversity.

The Search and Governance committee also manages the training plan for Governors, and as I write this I’m looking forward to attending a Governor training day in March. It’s important that all Governors stay up to date with what’s happening inside and outside the College, so as

well as receiving updates throughout the year, and attending various events and other training programmes, we all meet at least once a year to focus on topics which are of particular relevance to the College. This time, as well as hearing from the Chief Executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, the focus will be on value added assessment, curriculum planning, and the new funding formula which will affect the College, so it promises to be a busy and interesting session!

As well as chairing the Search and Governance committee, I’m also a member of the Remuneration committee, which meets annually to advise the Corporation on pay and conditions for senior postholders (The Principal, The Deputy Principal and the Clerk to the Corporation). It’s important that we ensure pay is fair, and reflects achievements and responsibilities, at the same time as taking into account the local and national context for pay, as well as the financial position of the College.

Outside of my work with Huddersfield New College, I’ve already mentioned that I’m a Human Resources Manager. Alongside this I look after my three year old son, and as well as pursuing interests in photography and writing I also attempt to keep my French and German skills up to date! I and the rest of the Governors are keen to let you know about our work as a Corporation and us as people, so I hope this article has given you an insight into some of what we do as a Corporation. If you’d like to know more, please get in touch with me or any other Governor via Claire Coupland, Clerk to the Corporation by sending an email to [email protected].

7HNC NEWS

Learning in a winter wonderland

When the snow comes to Huddersfield we seem to be in one of the worst areas for it - having the views we take for granted certainly comes at a price!

You can see by the photo taken from BBC’s Look North broadcast outside of college that the snow was particularly bad in January. In fact, it was so bad we were forced to shut the college to students without exams for the first time in two years.

As the exams in January are regulated by the exam boards, we had to remain open for the students who could make it in, as closing the college completely would have meant that the exams would count as failed and all of the hard work of students and staff to that point would have been for nothing. Luckily we have a fantastic estates team here who started shovelling snow at 6.30am, so that anyone coming in to college could actually make it down our driveway.

We’re delighted to say that we had over 90% of students make it in for their exams that day - some of whom had travelled for over an hour to make it in for the 9.30am start time.

The students who sat exams in January did very well too, and we’d like to thank everyone who worked around the clock to keep college open, for the part they played in this success.

Snow

Snow came to Huddersfield in January, threatening to derail the all-important January exams period. However, thanks to hard working staff and the determination of students, the disruption was kept to a minimum.

8HNC NEWS

Open Door

Students sign up to save livesOver 100 students signed up to the Anthony Nolan’s bone marrow donor register when they visited college. We also had over 800 students at the charity’s talks throughout the week - including Colne valley Mp Jason McCartney.

9HNC NEWS

WAS yOuR NEW yEAR’S RESOluTION to give up smoking? Students and staff were offered Quit Smoking kits at the start of the term, followed up by an information stall on National No Smoking Day on Thursday 14th March. We had a great take up for the kits and we’re hoping that we can encourage more staff and students to give up smoking throughout the coming term.

Our regular offering of free porridge on chilly mornings was available up to February half term in support of January’s Farmhouse Breakfast Week. Porridge is always a very popular breakfast at college and always very well received on those cold, snowy mornings!

This winter students at the college attended our contraception and sexual health tutorials to find out more about keeping safe and making informed choices. This culminated in our free Valentine’s Day goody bags (pictured top left) which contained extra special surprises for students.

The Anthony Nolan Trust visited us again this March to give information to groups of students on how they can register to be a lifesaver for blood, organ and stem cell donation. We’ve

supported this campaign for several years in memory of the Huddersfield Examiner’s journalist Adrian Sudbury who campaigned for education on donation before he lost his fight with leukaemia in 2008. This year’s talks at the college have also been supported by local MP Jason McCartney, who was joined by over 800 students throughout the week.

After the talks, the Trust held a ‘spit clinic’ in the Street for students who wanted to sign up to the stem cell donor register. At the end of the day there were 122 names on the list - a remarkable turnout and one for which the charity were very grateful.

The NHS were in college with information for blood donors too, and they tell me that 101 students registered as blood donors. I’m always humbled by how generous our students are when it comes to supporting worthy causes, and I’m sure the thousands of people who will benefit from their generosity will be too.

Next term we will be preparing for the exam season with a campaign to help students deal with exam stress, so that they can achieve their very best.

Kate Birch, the college’s Open Door manager, gives us her regular update on what they’ve been up to in the Open Door.

10HNC NEWS

Red Nose DayMarch 2013

THEy SAy CHARITy BEGINS AT HOME, but on Red Nose Day we proved that college isn’t a bad place to start either.

Staff and students worked together brilliantly to raise money for Comic Relief, staging a series of events over three days which raised a staggering £2,200! That total smashes previous figures for the event by over £1,000.

Starting on Wednesday 13th March, Business students held a tombola in the canteen with prizes donated from across college. There were also basketball and darts competitions which proved incredibly popular. On Thursday more students from Business sold Krispy Kreme doughnuts and sold over 300 doughnuts.

On Red Nose Day itself the team from Health & Social Care dressed up as characters from Alice In Wonderland, with students also getting creative with their costumes in aid of charity. We saw the Spice Girls, sumo wrestlers and the pink ladies all within the space of five minutes.

The event of the day was held in the Boilerhouse, when over 200 staff and students turned up to take part in a Gangnam Style dance and film the college’s own version of the Harlem Shake.

It was a great event, and we can’t wait to see if we can beat our record in 2015!

Friday 15th March was Red Nose Day - and here’s what we got up to! Turn the page for photos from our Gangnam Style dance.

The Fundraisers

11HNC NEWS

HNC Dances for Comic ReliefAll the photos from our Gangnam Style dance in the Boilerhouse on Red Nose Day. We raised over £600 from this event alone! All together now: “Heeeeeeeeeey...”

12HNC NEWS

Bullying is a very serious problem that needs to be dealt with.“

IN OuR lAST NEWSlETTER we announced that as a College we have begun working towards the ‘BIG Award’ (Bullying Intervention Group Award), to strengthen our commitment and approach to preventing and minimising the occurrence of bullying, including cyber-bullying, as far as possible.

We are making good progress in working towards meeting the eight criteria against which we will be measured to achieve the award and so far we have reviewed our anti-bullying and harassment policy, held an awareness raising event to mark National Anti-Bullying Week, updated our anti-bullying displays and engaged a student, Jack Sutherland, to design some posters. Jack very kindly agreed to write about his experience of working on our anti-bullying and harassment campaign.

“I created anti-bullying posters for the college by first drawing up some ideas and then mocking them up in Photoshop, I then sought feedback from students which helped a lot in the development of my ideas and I think the posters now look a lot better than they originally did as a result of this feedback. They

are more bold and get their message across more easily. I created these posters over a two-week period, as I did my work experience at college.

The purpose of these posters is to catch the attention of students and let them know that bullying is wrong, and that if you are being bullied then it is best to seek help from a member of staff as they will be able to help you. One of the posters tries to raise awareness of cyber bullying as it is becoming more common these days due to the internet and social media sites where it is easy to send a hurtful message to someone without properly thinking it through. I think these posters give quite an important message, as bullying is a serious problem that needs to be dealt with, as it can seriously destroy somebody’s life and make them feel small and insecure.

Whilst creating these posters, I have learned that in some cases bullying is a very serious problem but the victim of bullying won’t get help unless they ask for it, which many are reluctant to do as they feel ashamed or embarrassed which they shouldn’t as they are

not in the wrong.”

Our first Peace Conference, with participation from local schools and which was held on 20th March, went well. We saw some fantastic work from the schools involved, and our own dance students gave a series of amazing performances at the event. Further details of this conference will feature in our summer newsletter.

You’ve no doubt seen some of the incredible events which took place at college for Red Nose Day - you may even have been involved in them! We’d love to hear what you’re doing to raise money for other worthwhile causes.

We are always looking for ideas on how to develop our equality and diversity strategy and we welcome ideas for events, competitions and fundraising activities from anyone.

Please contact Zoe Shackleton, Equality and Diversity Manager at [email protected] with any ideas or if you would like to be involved in our anti-bullying and harassment initiatives.

equality & Diversity

An update on the college’s progress towards the B.I.G

Award

13HNC NEWS

Mark Cahill

Alumni News

14HNC NEWS

IT WAS A lONG and winding road on the way to being verified as a suitable candidate for such a groundbreaking and unusual surgical procedure. The initial starting point of the long journey included psychological testing. This was described by psychologists as “a bit of a no man’s land”, as they have never had to assess the mental capability of a patient going through this type of transplant before. This intensive and lengthy psychological process lasted around two years, incorporating a number of IQ tests and open questionnaires, including asking about the gender of the donor hand/arm and if Mark would be able to cope with the potential difference in skin colour and appearance. In addition, he was asked questions about how he would deal with the general public’s reaction to the transplant.

Alongside these rigorous psychological tests, biological testing of tissue and blood type were done. Mark explained an exact match was vital, as “the further apart you are the more chance you

have of it [the hand] rejecting”. The complexities of the transplant must have lead to a worrying time for Mark, wondering whether he would ever be matched with a suitable donor.

After these psychological and medical tests, it was then a waiting game for a match. Mark was finally called on the evening of Boxing Day 2012, which must have felt like a late Christmas present for him. Whilst the rest of us were enjoying our festivities, Mark was taken into hospital and prepared for his lengthy eight hour procedure at Leeds General Infirmary. Mark however, was under anaesthetic for a total of eleven hours to allow for the preparation, which included the removal of his hand to allow for the immediate transfer of the donor’s hand as soon as it was ready. When the donor arm was ready for removal and Mark was ready for transplant the arms were both cut at the same point, this is so the arm with the transplanted hand would end up the same length as Mark’s other arm. Mark then

went on to explain the process of the transplant in a little more detail stating that “the first thing they do is to put the bones together and then they connect all the tendons up and then the veins, arteries and then finally the nerves and then just stitch it back up again.”

A few months have now passed and the scars are healing well, but Mark is preparing to have further surgery to improve the appearance of the scaring. This further procedure will include the neatening up of skin, which will aim to provide a more aesthetically pleasing appearance to the hand.

In order to make sure that Mark’s body doesn’t reject the new part of his arm he has to take “30 tablets a day”. These are “anti-immune tablets”. Mark has to do this for the rest of his life, which doctors have said could result in the shortening of his life. Mark seemed unconcerned by this and said that having the use of two hands outweighed the small risks to his health.

Understandably the media coverage of this innovative operation has been massive. However, his local paper humorously still managed to mistake his name for ‘Brian’ instead of Mark. After numerous TV appearances, Mark reported that the response from the public has been positive, although some medical experts have criticised the operation. The concerns by these doctors seem to have been quickly contradicted though, because already Mark has some movement in his new hand and everything

appears to be going smoothly. Mark shared with us that the “nerves grow back at a millimetre a day, so it’ll take 12 months before I start getting proper feeling again.” So it should only be nine months until Mark has some functionality in his transplanted hand. Mark demonstrated the current movement and touch sensitivity of the transplanted hand at this early stage and this seemed to confirm the success of the procedure and the projected use of the hand in the future.

Much like the reaction of the public, Mark’s family “are all very supportive”, although his mother “was a bit dubious because she had an accident when she was younger and she lost half a foot and they were going to take her leg off about 40 years ago but she refused”, Mark’s mother still has her foot now so she wasn’t so sure of the operation at first, but since its success she is “100% behind me [Mark] now.”

Like Mark’s mother, the public are becoming more accepting of the idea of human body part transplantations and as technology and science are developing more, further operations in the future look promising and the scope for more transplants is on the horizon. We expect to see the number of similar procedures increase in the not so distant future. In light of this, Mark has said he would recommend it “100%”.

Huddersfield New College’s Journalism enrichment course takes place every Tuesday from 1.45 in the English rooms and is led by Emma Crosbie. Our thanks to Mark for taking the time to come in.

The nerves grow back at a millimetre a day, so it’ll take 12 months before I start getting proper feeling again.

Former Huddersfield New College student Mark Cahill, 51, has recently undergone ground-breaking transplant surgery. Mark is the first man in the UK to have had a human hand transplanted following the need to amputate his own hand due to gout. This complex surgery took place in none other than our very own Leeds General Infirmary, bringing prestige to the region of Yorkshire. The revolutionary procedure included top surgeons spending around eight hours meticulously attaching Mark’s nerves, bones, blood vessels and veins to those of his donor’s.

Journalism Enrichment students from Huddersfield New College were lucky enough to have the opportunity to interview Mark about his life changing surgical experience. Here is what he had to say.

15HNC NEWS

Adele Garside

Alumni News

Adele scoops IpOS apprenticeship

A RESEARCH lAB AT the University of Huddersfield has launched an innovative apprenticeship scheme which fast tracks young people into a science career.

The research unit named IPOS (Innovative Physical Organic Solutions), which carries out chemical analysis on behalf of a wide range of industrial partners, has appointed its first two apprentices and is planning to appoint a further pair in September. The recruits work four days a week in the IPOS suite of laboratories and one day a week they study for a University of Huddersfield BSc degree in chemistry, which they will complete over five years.

“So they are studying while they are working and at the end of the five-year apprenticeship they will have the industrial experience that we require for our business,” said IPOS Analytical Manager Helen Winsor, who explained the origin of the scheme.

“Four members of the IPOS team, including me, have worked in industry, and were sponsored in our studies, so we thought it would be nice to offer someone the same opportunity,” she said.

The IPOS apprenticeship scheme is being monitored by senior figures at the University and if it is deemed a success – as expected – then it could be rolled out by other departments, added Helen.

The first two apprentices are Adele Garside, aged 21, from Lindley who studied for her science

A-levels at Huddersfield’s New College and Olivia Jackson, aged 20, from Almondbury, who went to Greenhead College in Huddersfield. In addition to their one-day-a-week degree study they have received on-the-job-training in many analytical techniques, such as liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry and rheology.

Already they are carrying out routine analysis on behalf of firms in sectors such as agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals and they enjoy working in the state-of-the-art IPOS lab, which is an Agilent Technologies Centre of Excellence. The multi-national corporation is acknowledged as one of the world’s premier measurement company in fields including advancing electronics, communications, life sciences and chemical analysis.

However, Adele initially did not apply for a university place: “I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do so I thought I’d take a year out, but then I heard about this apprenticeship and it was too good not to apply for!” she said.

Olivia developed a keen interest in chemistry during A-level studies. She had applied for a standard degree course, but when she heard about the apprenticeship scheme she decided that was the option she would go for.

Both the apprentices enjoy the first-class facilities of the IPOS labs and are particularly enthusiastic about the real-world relevance of the work they are called on to do.

From the University of Huddersfield press office

16HNC NEWS

Sport

Driving ambitionJoseph Smith, left, and damon Sykes narrowly missed out on places at the BCS National Finals after competing in the Regionals at Oulton Hall in February. The pair, who both have single-figure handicaps, were just outside of the top four spot which would have seen them head to Bath in March to compete against golfers from around the country.

17HNC NEWS

THE pAST FEW MONTHS have seen HNC’s sporting stars travel the world to follow their passions.

Cricketer Edward Wilson has just returned from Sri Lanka, where he took part in a nine-day training camp with other members of the Yorkshire Country Cricket Club Academy. Ed met legendary Sri Lankan cricketers Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene, as well as getting to use international-standard facilities during his tour.

Rugby player Dominic Horn is also due to represent his county - however he’ll be a bit closer to home when he turns out for Yorkshire at a festival in Nottingham.

There was success too for Scott Atkinson (pictured top left) who travelled to Glasgow to compete in the men’s Scottish Indoor Championships and won gold in the 800 metres. Scott overcame a 15m gap in his final

lap to claim the winner’s medal, despite it being the fourth race of his day. His final time of 1 minute 56 seconds was a new personal best for the runner.

Following the BCS Regional Finals in York, pictured above, the college has representation at the National Finals to be held in Bath at the end of March. Andrew Atkinson and Hannah Byram will be playing men’s and women’s tennis respectively, and will be joined by swimmers Ryan Flanagan and Matthew Hinchliffe. Atkinson will be hoping for more success in Bath after recently winning the tennis County Cup in the area.

You may also have noticed the building work going on in college (left). This is our new Sports Barn, which should be completed in time for the next academic year. We’ll have more news on the building work in the summer edition of the newsletter.

Huddersfield New College has a long-standing tradition of sporting success. Here’s a few of our most recent triumphs.

18HNC NEWS

employability The Leonardo Programme

The leonardo programme has allowed 23 of our vocational students from Sport, Travel & Tourism, ICT and Children’s Care, learning & development to participate in an international work experience. Over 250 vocational students have also participated in work experience in the locality. Students have had placements with the police, hospitals, nursing homes, schools, local authority and sports organisations. The work experience gives our students a competitve advantage when seeking employment in a tough economy.

The government wants ‘high quality vocational courses’ for all young people and that’s what we offer here at Huddersfield New College according to Edexcel.

This is a superb centre in terms of vocational learning, delivering excellent programmes by highly trained and motivated staff. The centre is an example of good practice to other centres delivering vocational learning.

“- Edexcel Quality Reviewer