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Apprentice route was right choice
LIFE as an apprentice with Barrow’s Rathbone training organisation is keeping 18-year-old Amber Sproat very busy, but also extremely happy and on target to become a fully qualified child care assistant, as SUSAN GOODSON found out
Last updated 30 June 2011
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Teams come together for MasterChef - style cooking competition
TALENTED student chefs from across Cumbria were brought together in Barrow for a catering challenge.
Last updated 27 May 2011
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Key time for learners
THE month of June, for many young people, is often associated with the final push to revise for examinations and to ensure that coursework is complete before looking forward to a well earned rest from education.
Last updated 27 May 2011
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ACOLLEGE’S £40m campus transformation is running ahead of schedule.
Last updated 23 May 2011
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Petr is building on construction skills
PETR Talasek is really feeling the benefits of working and studying at Furness College.
Last updated 26 April 2011
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Students brighten up Alzheimer’s Society
STUDENTS have used their creative talents to help others.
Last updated 26 April 2011
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A new era for higher education
EARLIER this month the University of Central Lancashire announced that it is going to charge its full-time students the maximum £9,000 tuition fee from September 2012. As a major partner in the delivery of degree programmes to students from Cumbria, this goes a long way to informing us all of the way that universities are thinking as we move into a new era for higher education in England.
Last updated 26 April 2011
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Lizzie is set to make her dream come true
LIZZIE Shaw wanted to be a hairdresser after spending time as a child watching her aunty styling people’s hair.
Last updated 31 March 2011
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Students create their own golden globe
A GOLDEN globe made out of metals from around the world was among exhibits produced by Furness College students and apprentices to celebrate diversity.
Last updated 25 February 2011
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Award-winning trainee Jade aims for the top
BRIGHT spark Jade Leonard shot into the limelight last March when she won the UK Business Excellence Awards Trainee of the Year prize.
Last updated 24 February 2011
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Lauren really enjoyed her sporting challenge
A TEENAGE student who likes a challenge decided to take up a health and fitness home study course – right in the middle of studying childcare and education at Furness College.
Last updated 27 January 2011
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Holocaust survivor tells of experiences to students
UP to 240 students at Furness College have been invited to join in a world-wide remembrance event to hear a first-hand account of the holocaust by a survivor.
Last updated 27 January 2011
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Take a look at building
IT would be hard not to have noticed that Furness College is expanding.
Last updated 27 January 2011
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Sixth formers go on India mercy mission
THREE weeks on expedition to India proved to be a life-changing experience for a group of sixth formers.
Last updated 10 September 2010
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Engineering a career
TWO would-be engineers beat almost 300 other hopefuls to gain technical apprenticeships with Centrica Energy Upstream.
Last updated 26 August 2010
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Engineering students' 100 per cent success
ENGINEERING degree students from Furness have attained impressive results through Lancaster University.
Last updated 25 August 2010
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Double award for top BAE apprentice Ross
APPRENTICE Ross Crawford was named Apprentice of the Year in 2008 and again this year after taking part in a ground-breaking new Furness College course – which he only got on “by luck”, he said.
Last updated 29 July 2010
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