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More than just a qualification....... At North Hertfordshire College we are changing the way that students are taught and education is delivered, in order to fully prepare young people for today’s employment market. As a founder member of the Gazelle Group of colleges, our students ‘learn by doing’ and gain not only technical and industry specific skills, but general business and enterprise knowledge as well. For example, our Hairdressing students will not only learn the skills required to cut, colour and style hair, but will also gain customer service, marketing and administration skills from working in our commercial salon. We believe that this extensive set of skills and experience will make our students both sought after by potential employers or prepare them to create their own employment. This year we have built on our existing commercial services and launched a number of learning companies where students will work on live projects and gain industry experience relevant to their course of study. As well as working within the college itself, our students gain valuable experience working on projects for the local community. Our Health and Social Care staff and students worked with the local police force and council to launch a new youth club in the Hyde area of Stevenage. The club has proven to be a huge success, not only in providing students with valuable experience and giving young people a place to go, but reducing the crime rate within the area. This year we are launching the first annual ‘Kick Start Christmas’ market, inspired by the traditional German Christmas markets. Our students will be involved running stalls, providing theatre and music performances on stage and decorating the centre in preparation for the market. Our Beauty Therapy students are working with the charity ‘Kissing It Better’ this term to provide a range of beauty treatments to patients at Lister Hospital, and our students will also be producing a schools information pack for Stevenage Youth Council.
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Entrepreneurship as a strategic driver for change Fintan Donohue, Chief Executive Officer of North Hertfordshire College founded Gazelle along with four other college principals with the aim of transforming further education through enterprise and entrepreneurship. Working with the Gazelle colleges are a number of Gazelle entrepreneurs such as Peter Jones and Doug Richards who have pledged to bring their knowledge and experience of building and growing successful enterprises to the Further Education sector. The Gazelle Group now consists of nineteen colleges from across the UK whose students have had opportunities to enter national competitions and attend enterprise conferences, exhibitions and workshops. This year our students competed against 10 other colleges to reach the final of the Pantrepreneur Challenge; a competition set by Pants to Poverty brand founder Ben Ramsden. Students were tasked with designing a pair of Olympic themed pants and creating a marketing campaign to sell as many pairs as possible within a restricted timescale.
Our students visited MADE: The Entrepreneurial Festival in Sheffield to attend workshops and hear from speakers including Wayne Hemingway and Peter Jones. We have also recently teamed up with Gazelle Entrepreneur Penny Power to launch the Digital Youth Academy at the Goldsmith Centre in Letchworth and teach young people how to use their digital and social media skills to meet the needs of today’s businesses and find employment.
“Working with the Gazelle colleges are a number of Gazelle entrepreneurs who have pledged to bring their knowledge and experience of building and growing successful enterprises to the Further Education sector.”
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Earning while learning – makes cents Student Crew was developed to provide paid employment opportunities to all NHC students enabling them to support themselves whilst studying. Student Crew opportunities include working within the college itself, for external organisations and at numerous events throughout the year. Students have the opportunity to work on projects related to their course gaining experience and professional skills which not only earns them money immediately, but gives them the edge over other candidates when applying for jobs or university places in the future.
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Hair up, Make-up, Eat up! Students hone their skills in a professional working environment North Hertfordshire College’s Enhance and Energise Salons and Indulge Restaurant are open for business this term, enabling students to gain hands on experience in a real working environment. Enhance and Energise Hair and Beauty Salon at the college’s Cambridge Road site in Hitchin are open six days a week for a full range of hair and beauty treatments. Hairdressing and Beauty Therapy students spend a proportion of their time at college working within the salon, gaining customer service and business skills as well as perfecting professional skills under the supervision of their tutors.
Indulge Restaurant, based at the Centre for the Arts in Hitchin opens for lunch at the beginning of October, run by the college’s Catering and Hospitality students. Trainee chefs and front of house staff plan, prepare and serve three course lunches four days a week, with the restaurant opening up for weekly theme evenings from the end of November. In these business environments students learn not only the expertise and skills required to work within their chosen sector, but the confidence and professionalism required by employers in today’s jobs market. We are now taking Christmas bookings, please phone 01462 471000 or visit www.indulge.nhc.ac.uk to book.
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Our newly developed Studio Theatre seats an audience of 100 and is fully equipped with industry standard stage lighting and sound technology. Our students host regular theatrical and musical productions throughout the year and gain experience both onstage and backstage as part of the production crew.
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Play it again‌ Breaking the mould from impersonal multiplex cinemas, NHC in conjunction with Hitchin Film Club are hosting a packed programme this autumn-winter of classic and independent films as well as showing some of our students own work. Our Studio Cinema seats 50 and boasts a 3 metre projection screen. Book online at www.cfa.nhc.ac.uk
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Creative Events Management As a North Hertfordshire College Learning Company, Invite Creative Events Management brings the skills of students from a variety of subject areas together to provide a full range of services. Invite aims to unite students from areas including catering and hospitality, art, design, and media, business, IT and
more, and enable them to work together under the guidance of experienced event managers. As a learning company, Invite offers an all-encompassing value for money event management service, as well as providing the students with valuable work experience within their chosen field of study.
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UNION
Smoothie does it... Xing smoothies
North Hertfordshire College Students’ Union have opened their first learning company as franchisee of Xing smoothies. Launched at the Stevenage Centre within the Students’ Union, Xing smoothie bar provides an income for the Students’ Union as well as paid employment for students. Each smoothie on the menu provides two of your recommended five a day as well as enabling the students who work there to gain a certificate in basic food hygiene. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A shining car will never lose it’s luster Commercial car wash and valeting centre
Shine NHC Valeting Centre is a commercial car wash and valeting centre run by North Hertfordshire College students under the direction of industry professional Steve Deverick. With over 12 years’ experience running his own valeting business, Steve encourages the students to get involved in every aspect of the business from answering the phone, to valeting cars and distributing flyers. Students are paid an hourly rate for the work they do whilst also gaining specialist valeting and customer service skills. Shine is based in two permanent locations in Stevenage and Hitchin, as well as offering a mobile service in Letchworth Garden City.
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The Studio All it takes is a good idea! Introducing The Studio
the Studio
The Studio is the latest environment at North Hertfordshire College to operate as a learning venture. Students will have the opportunity to work in and around the college’s marketing team, honing skills such as photography, PR, advertising and event planning. Students will be able to gain work experience on projects for external clients and The Source, a new community entertainment magazine. Produced quarterly in conjunction with Archant Herts & Cambs, The Source magazine offers students the opportunity to work selling advertising space, in journalism and photography. An area of the Studio is also dedicated to Studio Hatch, a student run creative design agency. Studio Hatch is made up of students studying business, marketing, IT, photography and art, and focuses on offering creative design solutions to local businesses.
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Enjoy a Christmas Market NHC are kick starting Christmas this year by launching the first annual ‘Kick Start Christmas’ market. Inspired by traditional German Christmas markets, Kick Start Christmas will feature food, drink, gift stalls, entertainment and more. Special guests at the market will be Santa with his real reindeer. ‘Kick Start Christmas’ will take place on Saturday 1st December between 12pm and 7:30pm, both inside and out at the Stevenage Centre on Monkswood Way. NHC students will be involved running stalls, providing theatre and music performances on stage and decorating the centre in preparation for the market.
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Can you hear me? North Hertfordshire College Health and Social Care department collaborated with Hertfordshire Constabulary, Stevenage Borough Council and Pro-Action to start up a new youth club in Stevenage. The youth club called ‘Can You Hear Me’ provides a place for young people aged 11 – 19 to get involved in activities or just meet up with friends and socialise in a safe environment. The Health and Social Care department are staffing the project which will enable NHC students to carry out work placements at the youth club gaining valuable work skills and experience. Facilities include an Xbox, table tennis table, iPod with speakers and tuck shop. Young people will also have the opportunity to learn DJ skills and how to make music. Since opening in December 2011 the club has proved a huge success with young people and crime rates within the area have also reduced.
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Are entrepreneurs born or made? Have you ever wondered how or where entrepreneurs like Sir Alan Sugar, Peter Jones or Richard Branson get their business acumen? Were they born with an intuitive creativity or did they gain it along the way by learning through experience? Peter Jones believes that if you have the ambition to succeed that you can be supported towards success and learn the skills required to be successful in business. It’s for this reason that he has collaborated with awarding body
“if you have the ambition to succeed you can learn the skills required to be successful in business. ”
Edexcel to develop the Level 2 and Level 3 qualifications in Entrepreneurship and Enterprise. Delivered through the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy, the qualifications are designed to equip young people with business knowledge, creativity and confidence and enable them to start their own micro businesses in a supportive environment.
Start your journey as entrepreneur by applying for the Peter Jones Enterprise Academy at www.nhc.ac.uk or call us on 01462 424242
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Meet our budding entrepreneurs...
Kyran O’Neill
Jemma Barker
Ollie Melton
KLO Distribution
Mini Pres
I Need Baby Stuff
@KyranLuis
@MiniMiniPres
@OllieMeltonPJA
Kyran O’Neill
Jemma Barker
Ollie Melton
Jake Genever
KLO Distributions
MiniPres’
I Need Baby Stuff
Genever’s
A wholesale distributor currently distributing Thirsty Bags. The Thirsty Bag is an emergency liquid absorption pack in case your mobile phone/ electronic device takes and unfortunate spill.
A children’s clothing retailer, providing clothes to children and young people between the ages of three and thirteen.
An online retailer selling baby clothes and accessories.
A luxury food and drinks company based in Hertfordshire, selling locally sourced produce.
studying at NHC PJEA 01462 424242
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Fit4Less Lose lbs not £s Fit4Less gym is growing from strength to strength with the help of its franchisee North Hertfordshire College. Since the gym was acquired by NHC in January 2012, the membership numbers have almost doubled and are growing rapidly month on month. The Stevenage club forms part of the 22-strong budget chain from health club franchise group énergie. As well as providing the town with a no frills quality gym, the aim for the college is to use the club as a training facility to equip students with the business skills required by employers. Gordon Barr, Assistant Principal at NHC and heading up the initiative, explained: “We want students to understand how to run the business as well as how to engage with customers. They’re learning how to make the club a success, from how to market the facility and make it profitable to improving customer satisfaction and ultimately retention. The training and development of students is core to the business and the students are trained to deliver intense indoor cycling classes through to operating the club’s Costa café. The professionalism and quality of work produced by students is excellent and they consistently achieve results in the upper quartile of all Key Performance Indicators in the Fit4Less UK network.” The club’s latest venture is the introduction of Bear Cubs crèche. Run by Level 3 childcare students under the supervision of childcare industry professionals, the crèche will provide members with a quality an onsite childcare facility as well as providing students with industry experience to enhance their CV. Located at the Plaza in Stevenage Town Centre, Fit4Less is open seven days a week priced at just £14.99 a month, for more information please visit www.f4l.com/stevenage.
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Fit4less– Budget health club & professional training environment
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Let’s kick some balls The Edge Centre is NHC’s sports complex located at the Hitchin Centre and boasts a gym, conditioning studio, sports hall, squash court and 3G all weather pitch. Open seven days a week for students, staff and members of the local community to enjoy, the gym has a number of fitness machines, including five treadmills, two cross-trainers, three bike machines, as well as a large selection of weights and benches. The sports hall is home to a number of sports on offer at the Edge Centre. Visitors can book the hall for basketball, five-a-side football, netball, badminton, table-tennis and volleyball. NHC’s wide variety of sports clubs train at the centre and the gym is free for students to use during the week from 5pm-7pm. Find out more at www.edgecentre.nhc.ac.uk
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