Active Cambria programme supports thousands of college students and staff
HUNDREDS of students and workers in north east Wales are improving their health and wellbeing with Coleg Cambria. More and more people are signing up to the college’s free Active Mind, Body and Soul sessions in a bid to better their lifestyles. Around 800 learners and 200 staff members took part in the Active Cambria…
Read MoreColeg Cambria £21m redevelopment on course for completion this summer
THE £21million redevelopment of Coleg Cambria Yale will transform education in Wrexham. The Grove Park Road site is due to be finished in July and open this September in time for the 2020/21 academic year. Improved facilities include a new-look kitchen and restaurant, a sports complex, cutting-edge study spaces, IT suites and a 200-seat conference…
Read MoreTeenager Iannis pursues dream career with North Wales Fire and Rescue Service
A TEENAGER is on the ladder to his dream career as a firefighter thanks to Coleg Cambria. Iannis Windmill is now an apprentice technician after successfully completing the North Wales Fire and Rescue Service Traineeship Academy at the college’s Deeside site. Determined Iannis, 18, showed incredible commitment to the programme by commuting via train and…
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Coleg Cambria to host farming tech event with university researchers in Llysfasi
COLEG CAMBRIA LLYSFASI and Aberystwyth University have united for an event to demonstrate progress on an innovative agriculture project. Researchers at Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) and staff at Llysfasi launched the HEFCW-funded £370,000 PreciseAg partnership in 2018 in order to carry out innovative on-farm trials of Precision Livestock Technology….
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Coleg Cambria super six to contest places at WorldSkills Shanghai event
Coleg Cambria will compete for places at the ‘skills Olympics’ in Shanghai next year. Six learners from the north east Wales college have made the Long Squad for Worldskills. The list is made up of 137 apprentices who will now join the event’s talent programme to try to secure a place on the team that…
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Coleg Cambria launches new dog grooming academy and salon in Llysfasi
COLEG CAMBRIA has launched a new a dog grooming salon and training academy. The Collar and Comb Dog Grooming Academy at the college’s Llysfasi site will be formally unveiled with a seminar hosted by Julie Harris, co-founder of The Groomer’s Spotlight website. With more than 35 years’ experiences in the sector, Julie is one of…
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North Wales Police and Coleg Cambria join forces to train future PCSOs
COLEG CAMBRIA and North Wales Police have joined forces to launch a new traineeship scheme. The programme is aimed at prospective PCSOs (Police Community Support Officer) aged 18 above and will blend education at the college’s Deeside site with on-the-job training. The pilot scheme will be class-based for the first month, then the learners will…
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Steel giant and Coleg Cambria celebrate first apprentice graduates at ceremony
THE first learners to graduate from an innovative partnership between Coleg Cambria and an international steel giant have been celebrated at an awards presentation. The north east Wales college and Tata Steel have joined forces to deliver an NVQ Foundation Apprenticeship programme in Manufacturing. Thirty-one members of the inaugural cohort have successfully completed the NVQ…
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Yana Williams returns to take the helm at Coleg Cambria and make the institution ‘even more innovative’
COLEG CAMBRIA begins the decade with a new chief executive who plans to take the award-winning institution “to the next level”. Yana Williams has a long-term vision for the north east Wales college and will build on the foundations laid by predecessor David Jones OBE. The former CEO/Principal of Hugh Baird College in Liverpool vowed…
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Coleg Cambria students aim to reverse huge decline in red squirrel population
STUDENTS have joined forces with a wildlife project help save the red squirrel population from extinction. Level 3 NVQ Animal Management learners at Coleg Cambria Llysfasi built feeders and nest boxes for the animals and monitored their progress at enclosures in Clocaenog forest, near Ruthin, during a reinforcement project. They have been supporting the work…
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