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65 entrepreneurial students from hairdressing, catering, construction trades and business courses attended a presentation by The Isle Of Wight Chamber Of Commerce as part of Start Your Own Business Week. Island High Sheriff Claire Locke (founder of Artigiano) spoke about why and how she started her own successful business which grew to £20m turnover. Kevin […]

The Isle of Wight College has been awarded the prestigious whole-college re-accreditation for the Matrix Standard.  The Matrix Standard is the unique quality framework for the effective delivery of impartial information, advice and guidance (IAG) about learning and work. Although many colleges have partial matrix accreditation not all have been successful in obtaining accreditation for […]

Learners on the Insights course organised and managed an Employer Speed Dating event. The event was attended by over 80 students and 8 island employers and training providers: Medina Food Services, Pizza Express, What’s Your Dream, The Falcon (Ryde), Tesco, Southern Water, Isle of Wight College Apprenticeships and Linda Stone from The Isle of Wight College […]

The Isle of Wight College’s Level 3 Football Development student Harrison Manning (17) from Wootton has been selected to represent England in this year’s Dallas Cup to be held in Dallas, USA in April. Widely regarded as the world’s best youth football tournament and in order to ensure the highest level of competition the Dallas Cupis […]

The Isle of Wight College Hair Show has grown bigger and better. All tickets were sold for the show which was held in Medina Theatre. 76 hairdressing students presented their models who took part in the catwalk presentation. There were three categories: ‘Night and Day’ for Level 2 students to show their long hair skills […]

This second successful bid brings new investment in the College to £9m, following the recent award for the development of the new STEM centre (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). The College, in conjunction with the Isle of Wight Council, has received confirmation that funding of £2.4m has now been approved by the EFA (Educational Funding […]

The Isle of Wight College’s new sensory room was officially opened by Debbie Lavin (Principal) and Andrew Briggs (Isle of Wight Council’s Commissioning Manager for 14 – 19s). The multi-sensory approach The multi-sensory approach is a fun and flexible way of meeting the diverse learning styles that are needed when working with students with additional […]

The Isle of Wight College is delighted to announce an exciting new investment worth close to £6.5m to develop a new Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) Centre. Debbie Lavin, Principal of the Isle of Wight College, was today delighted to confirm that funding had been made available from Government to develop an exciting new […]

With the current state of the economy and rising youth unemployment there are significant challenges for young people on the Island. In response to this, The Isle of Wight Council in partnership with the Isle of Wight College held a careers and jobs fair during half-term which attracted over 800 visitors. Fifty local and national […]

Four College business students have all taken top honours from their university course in the same year.  The four – who studied the Higher National Diploma (HND) at The Isle of Wight College before continuing at University of Portsmouth – all achieved first class honours at the University’s recent award ceremony. The four students studied […]

The Isle of Wight College has appointed our own highly qualified careers advisor. In response to the local authority’s withdrawal of advice and guidance services to young people in full-time education, The College has ensured its students continue to get the best possible support by appointing Catherine Jackson, the former Connexions careers advisor. Catherine is […]

The Isle of Wight College Hair Show has grown bigger and better. All tickets were sold for the show which was held in Medina Theatre. Judging the Total Look category was conducted by Christian Warren & Becca Charlo from Style Magazine and Paul McLaren from Carnival Committee alongside Natasha Murphy, Angie White and Robyn Kristad judging the […]