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Deeside College
About the Centre
With extensive partnership links across Wales and the UK, Deeside College is an outstanding provider of education, training and development.
Deeside College has 14,000 students and 30,000 enrolments based around its main campus in Connah’s Quay, the Mold Learning Centre, the Netcafe in Shotton and over twenty learning centres across the local communities of Flintshire. These include five learning centres set up with local employers Airbus UK, Corus Colors, Castle Cement, Paramount Foods and Merloni Elettrodomestici (formerly Hotpoint/GDA), and training and development which takes place on employers’ premises.
Deeside College now has over 550 staff and has trebled its income to over £18m from what it was in 1997. Of this £18m turnover, over 30% comes from non-Welsh Assembly Government sources.
Deeside College is a progressive, adaptable and responsive organisation and has won a number of awards in the past few years, including the RoSPA Occupational Health & Safety Gold Award 2006, Tourism Training Forum for Wales Exemplar Award 2006, the Wales Quality Centre Learning Prize 2005 and the Beacon Award in Occupational Health & Safety and Environment Management training 2005.
Staff involved in delivering WBQ
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Programme Area Manager
WBQ College Co-ordinator |
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Yana Williams
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Business Manager;
Senior Manager responsible for WBQ
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John Moore
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Lecturer in Law and Politics
General Education WBQ Co-ordinator
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Carl Roberts
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Lecturer in Engineering
WBQ Engineering Co-ordinator
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Pat Pellat
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Lecturer in Health and Social Care
WBQ HSC Co-ordinator
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Sue Green
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Lecturer in Law and Teacher Training
WEW/PSE
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Pat McGuirk
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Lecturer in Social Sciences
WEW/PSE
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Steven Boswell
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Languages Co-ordinator
WBQ MFL Co-ordinator
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Samantha Jones
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Keyskills Coordinator
WBQ Keyskills Coordinator
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Carol Baker
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Keyskills Coordinator
WBQ Keyskills Coordinator
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Ken Topping
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Lecturer in Engineering and WBQ Engineering
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Jonathan Llewellyn
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Lecturer in Key skills in Engineering
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Students
Advanced Bac
AS levels
A2 Levels
Intermediate Bac
Motor Vehicle Technician’s Certificate Level 2
Additions Planned for 2006-7
Advanced Bac
BTEC ND Public Services
BTEC ND Business and Finance
BTEC ND Sport
Applied Health and Social Care
Applied ICT
Intermediate Bac
National Award in Travel and Tourism
Foundation Bac
NVQ Hairdressing
Foundation Construction Award in Carpentry and Joinery
Of special note....
The WBQ core is integrated into vocational courses and is mainly discrete for A levels, where Wednesday afternoon, over two years, is used to deliver WEW/ PSE; community work and wider key skills.. In all Bac courses, Key skills are integrated into main courses and community work, although discrete key skills sessions are offered where necessary, especially in AoN. From September 2006, all full time courses in college will participate in weekly, structured, one- hour group tutorials, which will meet the WBQ PSE criteria and will make Bac integration seamless for PSE.
Individual Investigations have been used as evidence to meet some of the criteria in key skills, especially Communication and IOLP.
Community Work has generated evidence for all criteria of Working with Others and Problem Solving, and some criteria for Communication and IOPL.
Community Projects since 2004 have included:
- Millennium Volunteer Scheme
- Awareness Campaign and DVD production on Gun Crime, linked to Amnesty International’s Arms Control Campaign
- Local History Project, including DVD production, with Connah’s Quay Town Council
- Awareness Project with Flintshire Youth Offending Team on Anti-Social behaviour, including DVD production and Teacher’s Packs
- Arts and Crafts Project at Local Day Care Centre
- Provision of car servicing and valeting at college throughout the year for charitable donations
Enterprise
Enterprise is widely practiced at Deeside College and Bac students have participated in:
- Green Cart Challenge – design and development of a vehicle suitable for inter-college competition racing
- Charity car servicing operated as a business with role rotation including manager; supervisor and administrator roles
- Business Dynamics –Deeside College collaborative projects:
- Working with Flintshire voluntary organisations to provide SWAT and Business Plans for local charities
- Working with a large Hotel in North Wales to provide SWAT and Business Plans
Languages
Activity for Bac MFL is mainly ab initio, with Spanish and Italian being most popular.
Engineering students studied Italian via taught classes and visited Turin, as part of their WEW module, linked to Investigations into car production in Wales and Europe.
E-learning using BBC Steps is currently being used for A level students and will be used in new Bac courses from September 06.
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