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Like many counties the Isle of Wight has a college offering vocational course and a sixth form as well as link courses in tertiary and postgraduate education. This college in located on the outskirts of Newport.

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[edit] Facilities

Learning Resource Centre the learning resource centre has a vast collection of resources to help the students with there studies, these include about 30,000 books, 250 current periodicals, magazines and newspapers and over 3,000 videotapes. The LRC also offers the students black and white and colour photocopying.

The College Restaurant The students studying Hospitality run the college restaurant. It is open to the public four day a week. The Restaurant is also open on Thursday evenings for Classic Cuisine and Friday evenings for party bookings of 50 people or more.

The College Refectory. The college refectory offers a range of snacks and meals to the students studying at the college they include Hot Meals, and the Baguettes. Help yourself' dishes are also available daily. Slush Puppie's are a popular option with students.

Hair and Beauty Salons For the Hair and Beauty courses there are salons that are open to the public. Students under the supervision of staff run them.

The Play Station, College nursery The college offers a Nursery to the students that study that study there.

‘’’Computers & Industry Standard Software.’’’ The college has over 500 computers all with internet access, all 500+ computer are available to all students at all times. The college also has a dedicated 'AppleMac' suite for Graphic Communication and Media Courses, all these computers run industry standard software.

[edit] Types Of Courses

Level 1 GCSEs

Level 2:

BTEC First Diploma or Intermediate GNVQ.

NVQ 2 National Vocational Qualifications

Level 3

BTEC National qualifications

NVQ 3 – National Vocational Qualifications

AS / A2 Levels

Vocational A Levels (AVCE)

Level 4

Degree courses

Higher National Diplomas / Certificates

Foundation Degrees

Diploma in Higher Education (Dip.HE)

Foundation courses

NVQ4

[edit] International

430 international students studied at the College from 30 countries including: - Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Denmark, Finland, France, Gambia, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Srilanka, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine

[edit] Lecturers

Phil Murray - Lecturer in Computing (Head of Computing Department)

Jim Clayden - Lecturer in Computing & Engineering (Higher Education Computing, Course Co-ordinator)

Mike Plapp - Lecturer in Computing (Programming and Databases)

Paul Stevens - Lecturer in Computing (Networking & CCNA)

Nick Cox - Lecturer in Computing (Multimedia & Programming)

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