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A skills centre designed to support Norfolk’s engineering and manufacturing sectors has had its official opening. The £100,000 facility at the Hethel Engineering Centre is a hub and resource centre for teachers and students studying science, technology, engineering and maths (Stem) subjects.
Students in Norwich will be among the first in the country to be able to choose a new qualification - the Diploma.
The government this week launched a £5.5 million programme to revise the “lost” subject of dance in schools in a bid to develop a new generation of Billy Elliots.
Youngsters on the east coast looking to build a career in the construction industry are being offered the chance to meet some of the region's top industry players face to face and impress them with their skills.
Norfolk's business leaders will today be told to improve the skills of their workers or relegate the county to the economic slow lane with poorer salaries and lower living standards.
A major summit to turn the spotlight on Norfolk's crucial skills needs has already proved a sell-out. Two hundred people have snapped up all available tickets for the February 20 conference, when business leaders from across Norfolk will discuss ways to ensure the county has a skilled and world-class workforce that is fit for the future.
Norwich School of Art and Design will begin awarding its own degrees for the first time in its 165-year history after being granted university college status.
Don’t laugh ... even academia is serious about government-backed plans for private firms to offer courses leading to national diplomas.
Two Norwich women have become the first Rosedale Funeral Training students to pass professional exams.
Going back to school has reaped rewards for hundreds of adults who have gained qualifications while working.
Each year almost 200,000 people give their time and energy to volunteering in local community schemes and other projects. For many the benefits of volunteering are social, but for some the experience can open doors to new careers which they had thought were out of reach.
The willing workers who serve up school meals across Norfolk have been given an extra helping of support.
Seventeen-year-old David Perry's excellent work on his construction course at City College Norwich was rewarded at the college's annual Further Education Awards ceremony held at St Peter Mancroft Church.
The first solar thermal domestic hot water course offered at Lowestoft College attracted students from as far as Somerset.
Sport has become an important feature of student life at one Norfolk College, where students not only get the chance to study vocational and academic courses, but are also actively encouraged to take advantage of the activities available through its important enrichment programme. RACHEL BULLER spoke to Peter Mayne, principal at Paston College in North Walsham, and Caroline Hawkins, head of sport and PE.
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