Coleg Cambria staff caring for 200 types of animal during Coronavirus crisis
WHILE frontline services and NHS staff go above and beyond to support and care for the general public there is another group of workers beavering away in the background. At Coleg Cambria’s sites in Northop and Llysfasi, lecturers, practitioners and animal technicians are out in all weathers, feeding, maintaining and observing more than 200 different…
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Coleg Cambria students offered places at elite international universities
COLEG CAMBRIA students are being offered places at elite international universities. As well as Oxford, Cambridge and Russell Group institutions, learners from the north east Wales college are looking overseas for a higher education. Among them is Oliver Barton, who secured a place to study Chemistry at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. The 19…
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Coleg Cambria and LEAF Education launch food and farming schools contest
LEAF Education and Coleg Cambria Llysfasi have announced the start of their national competition to crown this year’s Innovation School of the Year in Food, Farming and Environment. The competition, supported by Waitrose & Partners, aims to engage young people with farming, food production and the natural environment. Secondary schools from across the UK are…
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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…
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Coleg 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…
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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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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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Tributes paid to Coleg Cambria CEO David Jones OBE as he steps down from role
THE enduring and positive impact of David Jones on education and the economy has received widespread praise from leading figures across the country. Mr Jones steps down as Chief Executive of Coleg Cambria this week after steering the institution to national acclaim. The 57-year-old was formerly principal of Deeside College before its merger with Wrexham’s…
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Coleg Cambria leads the way for Wales at UK skills tournament
COLEG CAMBRIA enhanced its reputation as a leader in skills and training at a national competition. More than 500 participants from across the country took part in the annual WorldSkills UK LIVE event at NEC Birmingham over the weekend. Learners and apprentices from Cambria – which has sites in Wrexham, Deeside, Northop and Llysfasi –…
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Matilda star Kane praises ‘exceptional’ Coleg Cambria for acting support
KANE OLIVER PARRY has a driving ambition – for his face to appear on the side of a London bus. The former Coleg Cambria student may soon get his wish, having made a name for himself in some of the West End’s biggest musicals. Originally from Rhyl, the 30 year-old is currently treading the boards…
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