Archive News 2006

12th December, 2006

College celebrates success of students
Christmas came early for students at Wakefield College when their hard work was recognised at the College’s Annual Awards Ceremony. More than 200 guests, family and friends were present...

Awards Ceremony Guest Speaker ‘Sarah Redgwick’
The guest speaker at this years Award Ceremony was Sarah Redgwick, a former Wakefield College student and now firmly on the road to success as one of the UK’s top young sopranos...

Students reach for the peaks
Intrepid Sports and Exercise Science students at Wakefield College braved the elements reaching dizzy heights after completing the gruelling Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge recently, with seven of the 36 conquering...

4th December, 2006

Catalogue collaboration launches State-of-the-art photography studio
Students at Wakefield College joined forces with mail order giant Empire Stores, to work on a unique collaborative project to launch the College’s new state-of-the-art photography studio this week...

HND Photography - digital photography studio
News story from Calendar News on the opening of the digital photography studio, including the first live brief - a photo shoot for the Empire Stores catalogue...

HND Photography Shoot Empire Stores Catalogue
Students from the HND Photography courses shoot for live project for the Empire Stores catalogue...

16th November, 2006

Football Development Centre agrees new partnership
Wakefield College Football Development Centre (FDC) has announced a major new partnership with Ossett Albion...

11th Novmeber, 2006

Video from the Graduation Day 2006
The hour long Graduation Ceremony, including the parade, principal and guest speakers, musical interlude from the HND Music course and graduate presentations...

Photos from the 2006 Day Ceremony
Photos from the 2006 Graduation Ceremony...

MP praises College
The Minister for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education, Bill Rammell, guest speaker at Wakefield College’s Graduation Ceremony this year, paid tribute to the dedication, commitment and enthusiasm of College staff and students...

27th October, 2006

HND Theatre - promotional video
Video compilation of the past year’s theatre shows performed by HND Theatre students...

17th October, 2006

College’s new campus moves a step closer
Wakefield College’s property strategy moved on a step this week with submission for approval to the WMDC of final planning applications for its new flagship state-of-the-art learning facility at Glasshoughton...

Photos from the Exhibition of Full-time Courses
Photos from this year’s Exhibition of Full-time Courses, including demonstrations from Hair & Beauty students...

9th October, 2006

Rugby League Development Centre continues to thrive
Wakefield College’s Rugby League Development Centre (RLDC) has continued its success this year by reaffirming its partnership with the Wakefield Trinity Wildcats who will continue to provide expert coaching to students on the programme...

22nd September, 2006

A summer well spent
This summer our National Diploma Animal Management students had the opportunity to work on the conservation of the endangered Loggerhead Sea Turtle with ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece...

Employers ‘strike gold’ with appointment of ex students
Former Wakefield College HND Interactive Media students, Jemma Bailes and Oliver Brown, decided against going onto university at the last minute and instead accepted full-time jobs with a new design agency...

College students put to the test
Public Service students at Wakefield College were put through their paces when the Royal Marines paid them a visit last week. The day-long activities included a presentation explaining life on the front line as well as taking part in...

12th September, 2006

MP praises Train2Gain success at Wakefield College
Wakefield College has successfully secured a contract to deliver new Train2Gain in the Yorkshire & Humberside Region and at the same time received an endorsement from local MP Ed Balls...

17th August, 2006

Photos from the 2006 Results Day
Photos from this years results day, photos of students collecting their results...

Success really does begin with an A
An overall pass rate of 97.4% - above the national average of 96.6% - is being celebrated by staff and students at Wakefield College where with all the headline pass rates have gone up. The result is a substantial increase on last year’s 95.3%, which was then an all time high...

14th July, 2006

The mother of all adventures
Why not? has to be the answer to the inevitable question: ‘why would anyone want to drive 8000 miles, across far-flung parts of the Globe, in a 13-year-old pink Fiat Cinquecento’...

Students take on live project for Boat Theatre Company
Higher National Diploma (HND) Interactive Multimedia students from Wakefield College have been involved in a collaborative website design project with an unusual client; a theatre company that uses a 70 year old narrow boat to tour the country...

9th July, 2006

Photos from ‘Living in a Box’
Photos from ‘Living in a Box’, where Wakefield College Performing Arts lecturer Hayley Shillito and ex student Laura Taylor are to spend three days and three nights within the boundaries of a box...

4th July, 2006

Yorkshire Evening Post: Girls box themselves in for bizarre stunt to raise cash
Two performing artists have been following in the footsteps of this's Big Brother contestants by spending three days and nights living in a box.

A box of tricks
Wakefield College Performing Arts lecturer Hayley Shillito and ex student Laura Taylor are to spend three days and three nights within the boundaries of the ‘Everyone Should Have a Gun’ box in a big brother styled sponsored event...

TV Hairstylist to reveal celebrity Hair secrets at College
Wakefield College is to welcome TV hairstylist Andrew Barton to it’s Whitwood Campus next week (Tuesday the 4th of July), when Staff from its hairdressing salons will have the opportunity to learn some of the secrets he has to offer...

20th June, 2006

Photos of the Hair & Beauty ‘Glamour & Grime’ competition
Photos from the annual Hair and Beauty Competition undertaken by Beauty Therapy students, the theme this year was ‘Glamour and Grime’...

Students turn on the style
Beauty Therapy students from Wakefield College’s Whitwood Campus turned on the style last week for the annual Hair and Beauty Competition, with ‘Glamour and Grime’ the chosen theme for this year’s event...

Photos of a Animal Management student Greek conservation project
Photos of the Animal Management Students taking part in Greek conservation project for the protection of the endangered Loggerhead Sea Turtle...

A new opportunity in Greece for the Animal Management students
In the summer of 2006 the National Diploma in Animal Management students at Wakefield College will have the opportunity to work in direct conservation for the protection of an endangered species, the Loggerhead Sea Turtle...

6th June, 2006

Local schools package up bright ideas
Pupils from local high schools proved they were real smarties in a business competition to design a gift box to hold sweets run by Wakefield College at Chesney’s Resource Centre, Featherstone, last week...

Wildcats partnership
Students from Wakefield College are proving more than capable after progressing onto becoming rugby stars and dancers for the Wakefield Wildcats...

19th May, 2006

Adam is Soup-a-man
Hospitality and Catering students from Wakefield College were the toast of the town this week when they entered the annual Student Chef Competition 2006 being run in association with the renowned New Covent Garden Food Company...

8th May, 2006

Students reach for the stars
“It may not be rocket science” goes the saying but for students at Wakefield College it will be this week as the largest ever space rocket launched from mainland UK touches down at the Whitwood Campus...

19th April, 2006

Baby snakes slither into Wakefield College
New arrivals brought sssmiles to the faces of students when they slithered on to the scene at Wakefield College. The animal care department’s resident boa constrictor gave birth to three live young at the College’s Margaret Street Campus...

12th April, 2006

Yorkshire Leadership Conference 2006 in Photos
Photos from the third annual Yorkshire Leadership Conference. The Conference was held at our Thornes Park Campus and was hosted by the Wakefield College Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) for Enterprise Management...

David and David share leadership secrets
A chance to explore cutting edge approaches to leadership were be on offer at the third annual Yorkshire Leadership Conference, hosted by the Wakefield College Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) for Enterprise Management where fate would have it that both the master of ceremonies and the main key-note speaker shared the same names - David Taylor...

Coup de TArt
In April 2006 Emma Barrett and Steve Bell travelled to Beverley College to present the final results of Emma’s Q Project, Technology in Art (affectionately abbreviated to TArt), along with Q Project colleagues from several other Colleges around the region...

28th March, 2006

College Business students take on City Traders
Enterprising students at Wakefield College turned City Traders recently and made a £50,000 ‘profit’ on a portfolio of companies from the FTSE 100. The four A-level Business Studies students invested in 10 companies and made a 50% return after 4 months of trading...

Motorcycle course just the ticket for Jayne
In a profession dominated by men, it makes a refreshing change seeing a young lady in overalls changing the wheels on a motorbike, checking oil levels and servicing the engine. And is exactly what Jayne Thorpe from Wakefield is doing after enrolling onto a Motorcycle Maintenance course at Wakefield College...

19th March, 2006

A Celebration of Cultures
A colourful and lively Cultural Awareness Day, with poetry from local writer and comedian Craig Bradley, a chance to have a henna tattoo, wear a sari, learn a new language, taste the delights of international food and listen to the West Yorkshire Police Brass Band, took place at Wakefield College last week...

7th February, 2006

New building jobs in Wakefield
The first trainees on a ground breaking Wakefield training programme, designed to boost local homebuilding skills, have been offered permanent new jobs...

6th February, 2006

New prospectus given ‘thumbs-up’
The opportunity offered by Wakefield College to local school children as young as fourteen to get a taste of college life and supplement their learning whilst still at school - already given a big ‘thumbs-up’ by those currently involved...

31st January, 2006

Queuing out of the doors
People were queuing out of the doors when Wakefield College’s Wakefield Campus opened up its facilities to the public last week. A total of 450 guests attended the open evening with almost 200 coming in as perspective students...

14th January, 2006

Top of the League – again!
For the second year running Wakefield College has beaten all the other general Further Education colleges in West Yorkshire in the College and School A level League tables, which were published last week...

24th January, 2006

Students to Work on Turtle Conservation in Greece
Animal Management students at Wakefield College are to have a rare opportunity to be involved in a live conservation project aimed at protecting an endangered species in its natural habitat...