Suffolk New College offers a wide range of practical courses, apprenticeships and adult learning designed to build real skills and confidence across the county. With campuses in Ipswich, Leiston, Halesworth and Otley, and strong links to local employers, students gain the experience they need to progress into work, further study or a new career.
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A 48-year-old Suffolk painter and decorator, who left her job as a lab technician at Ipswich Hospital, is now visiting colleges across the region to inspire young people to join the construction industry.
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Suffolk New College's farm shop has launched a second-hand bookshop with its Inclusive Learners as the shop celebrates its third anniversary, and it has expanded its opening hours, now opening five days a week during term time.
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Two tamarins called Pablo and Marcia have moved into Suffolk New College's Suffolk Rural campus after arriving from zoos in Germany and Luxembourg in September.
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Residents at an Ipswich care home have passed on their life lessons to Suffolk New College students, urging them to join a club, play sport, and get out and meet people.
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Students at three Suffolk college groups could get guaranteed university offers and a £1,000 payment under new agreements designed to ease the cost of higher education closer to home.
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Around 3,500 young people from across Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex got a glimpse of their future this month, as 73 businesses and organisations descended on Suffolk New College for its third annual FutureSkills Fair.
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With 45 businesses already on board, organisers of the FutureSkills Fair are appealing for more local companies to join them in front of over 3,000 young people on 22 October.
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Jack Kelly, a 16-year-old from Saxmundham, has turned a bike and a set of gardening tools into a thriving business, and is now studying horticulture to take it further.
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Every Ipswich landline starts with 01473. From today, so does the town's only youth-led media brand. Launched in partnership with Suffolk New College, edited by a 23-year-old from Chantry, and written entirely by and for 16-29-year-olds, 1473 is setting out to define the culture of young Ipswich.
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A Suffolk New College lecturer from Kesgrave, who has already completed 58 marathons and raised around £100k for charity, is taking on his toughest challenge yet – 13 half-marathons in 13 days – after being inspired by a fellow runner who completed the London Marathon carrying a fridge on his back.
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Four years after a motorbike collision left him with a broken spine, Pedro Santos, 45, is trekking 2.4 miles in Cambridge this month to raise money for the East Anglian Air Ambulance crew who flew him to hospital.
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Suffolk Rural's equine centre has received a letter from the Princess Royal congratulating it on 20 years of training learners, as the facility also welcomes new horses and invests in improved facilities.
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