Telford College News

Pathway to Positive Success

Telford College is playing a leading role in helping young disengaged people get back on track to regain confidence and gain qualifications.  The issue of ‘NEETS’ (the government acronym which is shorthand for young people between the ages of 16-24 who are neither in employment, education or training) has made the national headlines in recent months as youth unemployment reaches unprecedented heights. As a response to this Telford College has embraced a new initiative that gets beneath the rhetoric to help real youngsters find their vocation in life.

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Students Produce Video for Mary Portas Pilot

Creative media students at Telford College have produced a video on behalf of the Telford and Wrekin Council bid to become one of the governments “Portas Pilots”.

The government is acting upon recommendations in a report by Mary Portas last year - that envisioned High Streets as "multi functional and social places bustling with people, services and jobs...which meet the interests and needs of local people."

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Bra Collection Raises over £200 towards World Record

More than two hundred bra’s were collected by Telford College for the Princess Royal Hospital Pink Ribbons Breast Care Group as part of a regional campaign to break a world record.
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Flying Start for Telford Skills Festival

The Royal Navy will be flying in one of their Squirrel helicopters to Telford College next week to mark the start of the ‘Employability and Skills Festival’ which is being hosted by the College on Wednesday, 25 April.
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Matt Murray to Open Revolutionary Football Pitch

The brand new full size third generation (3G) floodlit synthetic grass football pitch opens at Telford College next Thursday April 26 when former Wolves goalkeeper and Sky Sports pundit Matt Murray cuts the ribbon.

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