WITH A level results due out next Thursday (August 18), teenagers with their sights set on Higher Education will be worrying about more than just their grades this year. For the spiralling cost of a university education is leading many to think twice about moving away from home to further their studies. With annual tuition…
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Budding stars get chance to shine in Buxton
WITH jobs in the creative and cultural sector expected to increase by a third by 2020, Buxton & Leek College are offering budding actors and actresses a new practical qualification in Performing Arts. Starting next month in Buxton, a town renowned for its arts, music, opera and theatre productions, the new Level 3 Extended Diploma…
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Eva takes bronze for Great Britain
A BUXTON & Leek College sports student has brought home a bronze medal after representing Great Britain in the European Youth Archery competition this summer. Seventeen-year-old Eva Henderson-Hirst, from Flagg, who is studying Outdoor Sports at the college’s Buxton Campus, flew out to the Romanian capital of Bucharest to take part in the contest…
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Top students recognised at college awards nights
Buxton’s iconic Devonshire Dome and All Saints Church in Leek hosted the summer ceremonies last week when the best student and most improved student from each course were awarded prizes. And, for the first time, the silver salvers presented to the students were engraved in-house by the College’s engineering team who used the new laser…
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Students’ capsule sends message to the future
A MOBILE phone and a stress reliever are among the artefacts placed in a time capsule buried on Buxton & Leek College’s redeveloped Leek Campus this term. Inspired by a Victorian time capsule unearthed by the builders as they demolished the old Carr gymnasium on the site, students have sent their own message to their…
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Students give nature a helping hand
BEAUTY spots in the Churnet Valley have been given a spruce up by students from Buxton & Leek College who rolled up their sleeves to work with Staffordshire Wildlife Trust this summer. Teenagers on the Learning for Living and Work course at Leek Campus volunteered to help the Trust in tackling Himalayan Balsam and clearing…
