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On Friday 9th July, the Isle of Wight College held their annual Student Awards. The awards are held to reflect on the college year, celebrate students successfully completing their courses and to recognise a number of special award winners in categories such as outstanding achievement, high level of participation and award for excellence.

The exceptional achievements of Platform One College of Music were
celebrated yesterday, as the independent college was awarded the prestigious silver BTEC Award for BTEC College of the Year 2021 Platform One, which is twenty years old this year, was recognised by the international exam board Pearson, above all colleges across the United Kingdom.

Since last year, colleges around the country have been involved with running donation boxes for their local Foodbanks (an ELSEC initiative).

Julie Cobb launched our own Festive Foodbank and took charge of the project, liaising with our facilities team to arrange delivery of the food to the foodbank every Friday.

We are pleased to announce that the Isle of Wight College has been granted the title of “University Centre, Isle of Wight” by the Department for Education (DfE), in support of its successful history of delivering higher education (HE) courses in collaboration with university partners.

Last month, business students from the Isle of Wight College undertook training to become environmental auditors for the Green Impact programme.

The Young Enterprise program is embedded in the Business level 3 program where all year 1 students are encouraged to take part in the YE program giving them the change to try out running their own business learning and using lots of transferable skills coming up with their own business idea where the Isle of Wight College encourages the students to always try for a sustainable and/or environmentally friendly product for the island.

Hospitality and Catering students studying at the Isle of Wight College have recently entered the prestigious national Nestle Toque D’or competition.

Henri Davis graduated from the BA (Hons) Commercial Music, which is developed and run by Platform One and is now working full time at Livingston Studios in North London.

Platform One College of Music just keeps going from strength to strength, with results significantly above national benchmarks for the last 20 years.
Platform One is delighted to announce the introduction of a brand-new Level 3 Music Technology Extended Diploma – starting in September.

Platform One College of Music is determined to look after the mental health of their students during national lockdown. All students are working remotely using a new bespoke Virtual Learning Environment that is being beta tested and developed further by Platform One.

Mrs Lynne Christopher, Deputy Principal of The Isle of Wight College, has been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours List 2021, for services to further education and the community.