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Meet the Learner: Rachele's journey to becoming a Social Worker
19 April 2021
As a French speaker from Cameroon, Rachele studied ESOL to learn how to speak better English, so she could communicate and interact with other people within the community and become a Social Worker.
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World Autism Month – How can we be more autism-friendly?
16 April 2021
April marks World Autism Month, and Nadine Wood, one of our dedicated Learning Resources Officers at Coleg Gwent, shares her story and explains why she chose to complete a challenge for Autism Awareness, and how we can become more autism-friendly.
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Lycra, speedos, running shoes, and sweat… all for a good cause
8 April 2021
Over the Easter half term break, our Creative and Technical Studies (CaTS) faculty management team have been donning their Lycra, speedos and running shoes, to cycle, walk, swim or run the distance from Land's End to John o' Groats for St David’s Hospice Care.
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Meet the Learner: Kayleigh puts higher education centre stage
24 March 2021
University study is a big step. But as learner Kayleigh Barton discovered, you don’t have to go far from home to take your career to the next level thanks to our higher education courses.
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Rock School learners record a lockdown album
19 March 2021
Learners from our Level 3 Rock School Music Practitioners course have found inspiration in the pandemic and they’ve been busy collaborating on a lockdown album as part of their studies.
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Meet the Learner – Jack Bright found his future career with our Digital Technologies Course
18 March 2021
Meet Jack, who studied our BTEC Career Colleges Digital Technologies Level 3 course at Crosskeys Campus in 2018, before going on to study his Bachelor’s Degree at Cardiff Metropolitan University.