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4 New CBC Recruitment Campaign Launch
15 Pathways Dunstable Trip
8 Tick Tick Boom Success
16 NEBOSH Bistro Lunch
9 Fashion Show
17 Baby Lilly Update - Sponsored Walk and Cake Sale!
11 Library Update
18 Red Nose Day - ÂŁ750 raised!
12 ESOL Students Launch Library Study Centre 19 Kellie Sieling wins prestigious award! 13 Indulgence Day 14 Pathways Awards
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Change Your Destiny - New Recruitment Campaign Launch Monday 4th April sees the launch of our exciting new recruitment campaign “Destiny”. Following the success of the multi national award winning Heroes campaign over the past two years, the Marketing team have been busy over the past six months devising a campaign that would continue to attract ever increasing numbers of potential students to the College and would stand out from the competition of other Colleges in the region. The concept of the “Destiny” campaign is focused on communicating to potential students that by enrolling on a course at Central Bedfordshire College they have the opportunity to control and change their destiny into whatever they want it to be. Their future is in their hands but by working with the College we will give them the training and skills necessary to ensure they have the qualifications and opportunities to succeed and excel in their chosen career.
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6 At the heart of all our campaigns remains the strong belief that it is our students that are the best marketing tool for our college. Therefore, all of the students in the campaign are existing students on a variety of courses across the different departments. The external agencies used are all ex-students who have gone on to build their own successful business in their chosen field. This includes the photography, design, and hair and makeup. Not bad for ÂŁ4,500! As always the students involved had a great time during the making of the campaign, and worked brilliantly with all involved, always being polite and helpful. We hope you all like the new campaign and help us to promote it to potential students to increase our enrolments and to promote the College.
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Tick Tick Boom Success! Central Bedfordshire College’s first ever musical - Tick Tick Boom took place in March, and was a great success. The musical was also a brilliant opportunity for both Photography and Media Departments take photos of the show, both in dress rehearsal and during the production. With Media also video recording the performances, look out for the video on the website and around the College!
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Fashion Show On Thursday 31 March the Department of Creative Arts hosted their third annual Fashion Show and opened their doors to showcase the abundance of creative talent housed within the College. Students designed items for the show representing various courses from further education through to higher education: Diploma Art & Design, National Diploma Art and Design and the Foundation Degree in Fashion & Surface Pattern Design. Students from other courses also got stuck in to support the show; Media students took care of the sound, lighting and filming of the event, Photography captured the images and Performing Arts students performed some amazing routines. The models for the show were also students. This year the show was based around the themes of Light, White, Memories, Deconstruct and Reconstruct, Cultural Adornment and Surreal Icons. The students worked towards the show for a total of six weeks and the finished effect was a credit to all of their hard work and commitment. The Department of Creative Arts will be holding their annual summer exhibition in June where the work from the show will be available to view. For more photos, please see the next page.
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Library Update If you don’t know what this is you are not alone. It’s called a QR code. Think of it as a complicated barcode that can be read by many smartphones. They are normally used as links to websites but can also do other things like containing text. The Library is going to be putting a few of these up around the College as a way to promote awareness of our online catalogue so if you see any interesting posters up on the wall, for once it isn’t the art students. http://melvil.centralbeds.ac.uk/heritage/
Our Lives Books This is a series of new books in the library written by people from different cultures about their experiences of living in Britain. Students of English tell their own stories. Keep a look out for them!
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ESOL students launch Language Centre
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Central Bedfordshire College students studying ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) have set-up a Self-Study English Language Centre to help others students learn the English Language. The Centre which is based in the Library at the Dunstable Campus, is run by ESOL volunteers who are on-hand to provide additional support for students, providing them with information on where to source help for their studies, such as which books and websites to use. All of the volunteers have just completed their CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults) qualification, so are ideal individuals to help other students. The Self-Study Centre is also an ideal opportunity for students to gain valuable work experience whilst still completing their studies at the College. ESOL Tutor, Elzbieta Grabska-Moyle, commented, “The SelfStudy English Language Centre is an ideal opportunity for students to help other students to learn the English Language. It not only provides the volunteers with work experience but also enables them to pass on their experiences of studying at the College to other students�.
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13 14 - 16 Indulgence Day Ali Hadawi visited the 14-16 Hair & Beauty Students at the Indulgence Evening at the Dunstable Campus on 8th February. He was impressed with the buzzing professional atmosphere in the salon by the young people who had organised the event themselves. Feedback from all concerned was very positive, the clients experienced relaxing proficient treatments. The students enjoyed practising their skills by treating family and friends, our tutors Suzanne Toth and Caroline Hand commented on the standard of assessment achieved. Rachel Halling 14-16 School Partnership Manager was delighted with the students’ performance and professional attitude and praised the students for their hard work.
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Pathways and Learning Circles Awards Ceremonies
Pathways full time learners celebrated their success in 2009-10 at an Awards Ceremony on the morning of Wednesday 16th February. Learners were awarded certificates from NOCN Level 1 Diploma in Progression, through to ASDAN Entry Level 1 Award in Personal Progress. The skills learners had demonstrated included: working with others, following instructions, speaking and listening, customer care, setting up an enterprise, teamwork, and problem solving. Rita Egan, one of the College Governors, very kindly agreed to give out the certificates, and said at the end that she was very impressed at the skills learners had, and she hoped local employers would recognise them, and offer work to the learners when they complete their College programmes.
Lee Williams and Rita Egan – Lee received a total of 5 certificates!
Frankie Hawkins was delighted to receive her certificate from Geoff Collins
Daniel Haddon, Pathways Student of the Year 2009-10
Pathways Dunstable Trip
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Pathway students are able to visit Dunstable Town Centre as part of their Community group. Recently, they have visited West Street Baptist Church centre to watch a performance of the fable The Lost Sheep. The Baptist Church is very involved in the local community providing a cafe called The Way which is open for free tea and coffee between 10am – 2pm six days a week, but donations are accepted. They also provide a range of activities including netball, line-dancing, keep fit, patchwork and quilting, watercolour and painting classes to name a few.
16 NEBOSH Lunch Paul Rogers and his students have been keen to show off there culinary skills to local employers an ideal opportunity was to provide hospitality to the NEBOSH students from Chiltern Business Training. A total of nine representatives from different industry sectors tasted the delights of our students cooking over several weeks which culminated in an invitation to fine dining at the Bistro where a superb menu was presented and a three course lunch was served to table. There were senior representatives from Nampak Plastics Europe Ltd, Ecclesiastical Insurance, Houghton Regis Town council (Town clerk) B/E Aerospace, Dallow community centre. Chris Bush – Senior Engineer for Nampak services commented: The hospitality and food has been superb and better than some expensive restaurants he has been to.
Baby Lilly Update The Health and Social Care Department took part and organised a sponsored run/walk on the morning of Wednesday 30 March. Each participant dressed up to take part in a mile and a half route around the College. Students also had another cake sale, raising a total of ÂŁ
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18 Red Nose Day Students and Staff at the College were raising money raised at the Dunstable campus for Red Nose Day. By holding street collections in Dunstable High Street, a Coffee Morning in C314 and an Easter Egg Raffle in reception, a grand total of ÂŁ748.11 was raised, with ÂŁ588.24 was the amount collected through the various street collections alone. Thanks to Central Bedfordshire Council who provided the permit allowing our students to make the collections, and to Asda who provided an Easter Egg, Sainsburys who provided a gift card, and the Sweet Station who provided 2 jars of sweets for the Easter Egg Raffle. Well done everyone!
19 Kellie Graduates from her MSc and receives a prestigious award from UoB Kellie Sieling, Human Resources Advisor, has graduated from her MSc and also won the Sir Ian Dixon memorial award for the best student on a professional management award. Congratulations from everyone at the College! You deserve it!