May 18, 2012 Education
School head gets fit for Snowdon climb in £3,000 fundraiser for St Andrews Preschool in Hove
A Hove school supervisor is anxiously anticipating a five-mile climb up Mount Snowdon over the May bank holiday – to raise up to £3,000 in funds for modern equipment at St Andrew’s Community Preschool in Hove. School Supervisor Pam Bebb said: “I’m looking forward to the trip with anticipation, but also some trepidation. Five miles [...]
Brighton graduate credits The Open University with career success
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Over 350 graduates in the South East received their degree awards from The Open University (OU) at a ceremony in Brighton on Saturday 28 April 2012. Amongst them was 41-year-old Jake Smith from Brighton, a Senior Marketing Manager at Hove-based Legal & General who has graduated with a BA 1st Class Honours Open degree. All [...]
Caroline Lucas MP launches innovative ‘City Skills & Jobs’ shop
Caroline Lucas MP was the guest of honour recently at the official launch of an innovative new ‘skills shop’ in Brighton, City Skills & Jobs. The shop has been established by City College Brighton and Hove to be a vibrant and welcoming ‘one stop shop’ to facilitate connections between employers and their potential employees while providing information and support [...]
Brighton opinion: Will Brighton and Hove children be saying “Hola!” to a new bilingual primary school?
Plans to open the UK’s first bilingual Free School in Brighton and Hove have divided opinion across the city and complicated the process for primary school admissions. Here, Brighton and Hove Free Press contributor Elizabeth Hughes takes a look. Plans to open the UK’s first bilingual Free School in Brighton and Hove will be making [...]
Local vocal school gets the X Factor from Andy Abraham
Local youngsters from vocal school Vocademy had an extra special master class with X Factor’s very own Andy Abraham, which took place last Wednesday 18 April at Ivy Arch Studios in Worthing. 30 students were selected from the Brighton, Worthing, Horsham and Mid Sussex schools to take part in the master class where they, alongside [...]
City College Brighton and Hove highlights free full-time course entitlement for under 19s
City College Brighton and Hove has begun an awareness-raising campaign regarding the often overlooked fact that, providing that they are still under 19 on 31 August this year, young people are entitled to free full-time education at the College. “There are going to be many cases where a student may feel that they’ve had their full entitlement [...]
NCTJ award hat-trick for City College Brighton and Hove journalism students
City College Brighton and Hove Journalism students Alice Neal and Daniel Bell have scooped awards for being best performers in the last academic year’s NCTJ media law exams. They were honoured at the Media Law Seminar in London on 30 March, winning awards sponsored by Johnston Press and Oxford University Press. Daniel was also the winner of the [...]
City College Brighton and Hove students help Cinecity create ‘Hangover Square’ film-set for Brighton Festival 2012
City College Brighton and Hove, a corporate partner of the Brighton Festival, has joined forces with Cinecity to create a film-set for an imaginary screen version of Patrick Hamilton’s classic novel ‘Hangover Square’ as part of this year’s festival. Fifty years after the death of the iconic Sussex-born author and saloon bar laureate – much-admired [...]
Youth Opportunities Fair sees young people find out about jobs, courses and training
The Youth Opportunities Fair saw over 100 young people finding out about jobs and training opportunities in and around Brighton and Hove. The opportunities ranged widely from construction to music. At least 35 training providers, colleges and employers spoke about the options on offer as part of the event which was organised by Brighton & [...]
School children in Brighton and Hove create Olympics-inspired posters
Over 100 children in Brighton and Hove have taken part in a competition in which they created posters celebrating different cultures, inspired by the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Twenty-one children were invited to take their poster designs – which aimed to illustrate the universal Olympic values of respect, excellence and friendship and the Paralympic values [...]
City College Brighton and Hove offers options in ‘AS’ level results week
City College Brighton and Hove is reassuring students who have just received their ‘AS’ level results this week that there is a range of full-time vocational courses at different levels available at their local Further Education College, covering everything from practical trades such as carpentry, bricklaying and electrical to art, drama and music. “Whether students [...]
International Women’s Day in Brighton and Hove
Today (8 March 2012) is International Women’s Day – an annual day to celebrate and inspire the achievements of women across the whole world. In Brighton and Hove, International Women’s Day is being marked this year by a week-long programme of events. Events began last weekend (3 March 2012) with ’13 Women’ – a celebration [...]
Teen pregnancies down a quarter in Brighton and Hove since 1998
Teen pregnancy rates in Brighton and Hove have drastically fallen in Brighton and Hove, according to the city council. The rates have fallen by over a quarter (26.5%), since 1998 and this has been attributed to the overhaul of services to prevent unplanned pregnancy and improve sexual health. According to the BBC, over 200 teenagers [...]
University of Sussex Professor says coherent industry strategy “lacking” in UK
Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of Economics and Chair in Science and Technology Policy at the University of Sussex, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that a coherent industry strategy, supporting innovation and productivity, has been “lacking in the UK” in the last 10 years. Professor Mazzucato stressed that it is not about the government “picking winners” [...]
University of Brighton to lead ‘smart e-bike’ project on streets of Brighton
The University of Brighton is leading a project that will involve trials of ‘smart e-bikes’ on the streets of Brighton in 2012 and 2013, as part of research into sustainable transport and mobile media. The particular project aims to understand how people use e-bikes, and how smartphones can monitor this use and give useful feedback [...]
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