For the second year running the West Berkshire Classic Vehicle Club will be hosting their Classic Vehicle Show at Newbury College on Sunday 9th August 10am to 4.30pm, in aid of the Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research Fund.
The Classic Car Show is a great day out for enthusiasts and all the family with hundreds of classic vehicles on display.
Alistair Napier, Motor Vehicle Lecturer at Newbury College said, Newbury College will be exhibiting on the day and offering demonstrations of our rolling road and four wheel alignment. The College has a well-established motor vehicle department delivering Level 1 to 3 Motor Vehicle courses full, part time and apprenticeship and for academic year 16/17 the College plans to launch a Level 2 Motorsport course.
The Motorsports course is supported by the Newbury Dolphin Motor Club who will be attending on the day. Dolphin Motor Club offers a wide range of activities both social and competitive. Whether you just want to watch motor sport, talk about it, get involved as a competitor or a marshal at events, Dolphin Motor Club provides the opportunities.
Newbury College and East Berkshire College's Windsor Campus have been awarded £1.24m to develop new resources in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), and high-spec solutions labs based at both colleges.
The investment is a result of two successful bids from Newbury College and East Berkshire College to the Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership's Local Growth Fund. The successful bids were for £333,333 and £906,666 respectively, with match funding of 2:1 from both colleges.
The Solutions Labs are designed to raise the quality and profile of STEM provision across Thames Valley Berkshire so that STEM education responds to the needs of the local economy. They will create resources that are currently unavailable within the colleges; developing excellence in business research and development; innovation; testing and development of entrepreneurial skills; all to train individuals who can bring the products, skills and innovation required to stimulate the local economy.
The Solutions Labs will differ from each other in terms of their focus: at Newbury College, the Lab will be oriented exclusively to fusion, mechanical and electrical engineering, and at East Berkshire College, the focus will be on engineering and science.
Peter Read, Chairman of Thames Valley Berkshire LEP says, This is another intervention by the LEP, which spans two of the programmes in our Strategic Economic Plan; those of skills and of enterprise. This investment of Local Growth Funds comes hot on the heels of the first tranche of funding to be released for transport projects; nearly £29m across Thames Valley Berkshire, and a further injection of funding into our Business Growth Hub. The efforts of the LEP are now manifesting themselves as we move into the implementation of our SEP, using funds secured through our Growth Deal.
Dr Anne Murdoch OBE, Principal of Newbury College says: We are absolutely delighted to receive this support from the Thames Valley Berkshire LEP, via the Growth Deal, for our proposed Solutions Lab. This new facility will be a great addition for local employers who, along with Newbury College students, will use the Lab to research and develop products for their own industries. The Solutions Lab will have very high-specification machinery which will help Newbury College research, design and manufacture components for a variety of local innovators. This facility is a great complement to Newbury College's existing high-quality facilities which our students − who are the workforce of the future ' can use to good effect.
Kate Webb, Principal at East Berkshire College, explains: We are delighted to be working with the Thames Valley Berkshire LEP on the creation of a Solutions Lab at our Windsor College. Designed to inspire the next generation of inventors, designers and scientists, this facility will provide an innovative learning space to help students develop skills in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) to meet the needs of local employers and produce a highly-skilled workforce for the future.
Engineering inventors and IT wizards of the future showcased their end of year projects at the Newbury College annual Technology and Computing Project Presentation Day on Tuesday 7 July.
West Berkshire Council's 2015 Learner Achievement Awards took place at Shaw House in June, demonstrating the depth of learning opportunities available to adults (over 19 years) including professional, academic and vocational qualifications, apprenticeships, courses for pleasure and family learning.
This year's winners included Newbury College Keeping Active Group (Fairclose Day Centre) for the Group Learners category, Xtrac apprentice Timothy Plows for the Outstanding Achievement category and GCSE student Michelle Edwards for the Return to Learning category.
Curriculum Manager for GCSEs and A Levels, Jilly Carrell, said "Michelle has worked so hard this year in developing her GCSE skills and is keen to progress to A Levels next year. She has fought, and overcome adversity, and her advice for others in the same situation, thinking about returning to education is "Just do it!" She is a highly deserving winner and it has been a pleasure to work with her over the past year."
Curriculum Manager for Community Learning, Sarah Hughes, said "We are really pleased that we had so many winners from Newbury College in this year's West Berkshire Learner Achievement Awards. These annual awards are a fantastic way to celebrate the outstanding success and achievement of individual learners, groups and organisations involved in adult learning across West Berkshire during the academic year. We are really pleased that Fairclose Day Centre won the Group Learner category; they have achieved some fantastic work over the year, despite battling complex learning difficulties, disabilities and dementia. The awards really inspires others to get involved in adult learning and cements the message that it is never too late to learn."