After playing host to a regional boccia tournament, Walsall College is keen to provide more opportunities for students to play the game, as well as participate in other sporting activities. The Association of Colleges (AoC) Sport’s West Midlands region’s boccia …
Walsall College is encouraging small and medium-sized construction companies to get involved in a training scheme that stops them turning down building projects because they lack skilled workers. The Gateway to Construction Labour provides ‘work-ready’ individuals through a pre-employment programme …
Leading leisure airline and package holiday specialist Jet2.com and Jet2holidays has worked with students from Walsall College. This involved hosting a number of career sessions and sharing an insiders’ view of the company’s recruitment process. The company’s brand champion Amanda …
Walsall College has renewed their patronage with the Black Country Chamber of Commerce. Assistant Principal, James Norris said: “As Chamber Patrons, Walsall College is able to work more closely with employers to understand emerging business challenges, skills needs and the …
Would you love to work in a fast-paced industry? An industry with heaps of options and chances to progress? To have skills that you could transfer to anywhere in the world? If so, a career in computing and IT could …
Yes, you heard right. Higher education media students and college staff are 12 months ahead of the rest of us as they have been busy making a Christmas anthology film ready for next year. Advent consists of three festive tales …
Performing arts supported learning students transformed themselves into forest trees that travelled to the Walsall Manor Hospital to bring festive cheer to patients. The ‘trees’ visited a number of wards to sing Christmas songs (a mixture of traditional tunes and …
A textile artist and art and design lecturer’s latest commission involves decorating the walls of a Paris hotel. Maria Wigley will produce 30 original pieces of art which will be installed in April 2020. The collection was commissioned by the …
Uniformed services students saw the streets of Walsall through the eyes of local police officers during a patrol activity through Walsall Town Centre. 12 students donned hi-vis jackets and teamed up with eight officers from the local St Matthew’s Police …
Two Walsall College students have won gold medals after demonstrating their computer cybersecurity skills during a national competition. Stefan Bargan and Luke Jowett beat seven teams of students and apprentices during WorldSkills UK held at the NEC, Birmingham. The 19 …