Isle of Wight College
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Like many counties the Isle of Wight has a Further Education 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, Isle of Wight, England.
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[edit] Facilities
- Learning Resource Centre - The college has decided to refer to their library by the neologic name "Learning Resources Centre". Despite the pretentious title, it has a large collection of resources to help the students with their studies. These include about 30,000 books, 250 current periodicals, magazines and newspapers and over 3,000 videotapes. The library 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 days 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, including hot meals, and baguettes. Help-yourself dishes are also available daily. Slushes 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
Kim Smith - Lecturer in Computing Ian Andrew - Lecturer in Computing Mike Plapp - Lecturer in Computing (Programming and Databases) Paul Stevens - Lecturer in Computing (Networking & CCNA) Nick Cox - Lecturer in Computing (Multimedia & Programming)
