Northern Regional College’s Under 19 football team recently emerged victorious from the Copa Costa Brava elite youth football championship. The international tournament, hosted in Lloret De Mar, Spain, attracts the world’s best in young footballing talent.
Continue ReadingThe Empower Project has launched an ambitious new programme to support families in Mid Ulster & Antrim & Newtownabbey Council areas with children who are on the autism spectrum, are dyslexic or dyspraxic. Between Easter and the end of June, the planned programme of 46 different activities will include creative play and storytelling sessions, as well as workshops to address some areas of concern for families, such as ASD and Anger, Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), Toileting and Food and Mood.
Continue ReadingEight Northern Regional College Engineering and Computing students were honoured with awards at the 2019 Career Ready Student Graduations. The students were among over 100 young people from all over Northern Ireland who attended the Career Ready Graduation Ceremony in Belfast. The ceremony marks a major milestone in their Career Ready journey, which prepares them for the world of work by linking them with local employers. This year, through the Career Ready Programme, some of the College’s Engineering and Computing students at the Ballymena and Magherafelt campuses secured valuable paid industrial experience, thanks to the College’s links with 40 different companies.
Continue ReadingFour Magherafelt students have been honoured with awards at the 2019 Career Ready Student Graduations. The students were among over 100 young people from all over Northern Ireland who attended the Career Ready Graduation Ceremony in Belfast. The ceremony marks a major milestone in their Career Ready journey, which prepares them for the world of work by linking them with local employers. This year, through the Career Ready Programme, some of the College’s Engineering and Computing students at the Ballymena and Magherafelt campuses secured valuable paid industrial experience, thanks to the College’s links with 40 different companies.
Continue ReadingFour Ballymena students have been honoured with awards at the 2019 Career Ready Student Graduations. The Northern Regional College Engineering and Computing students were among the 100 plus young people from all over Northern Ireland who attended the Career Ready Graduation Ceremony in Belfast. The ceremony marks a major milestone in their Career Ready journey, which prepares them for the world of work by linking them with local employers. This year, some of the College’s Engineering and Computing students at Ballymena and Magherafelt campuses secured valuable paid industrial experience with 40 different companies through the Career Ready programme.
Continue ReadingA talented young animator from Greenisland was runner up in the Inter Colleges Media competition with his animation of a ‘Zombie News’ report. Jack Bradshaw, who is studying Interactive Media at Northern Regional College’s Newtownabbey campus, submitted a flat design animation for the competition. Animation was one of the five categories in the highly competitive Inter-Colleges competition which attracted over 250 entries from across Northern Ireland.
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