East Riding College is investing £500,000 in manufacturing and engineering machinery to upskill local workers.
Beverley-based TEC Partnership college, which is a member of the group of education providers, has acquired four pieces of specialist equipment for businesses to train their employees in the latest production technology, boosting both worker skills and business efficiency.
Leading East Yorkshire letting agency Ultralets has opened a new office at Beverley’s flourishing Flemingate centre after an impressive period of growth.
Ultralets specialises in property management and maintenance and has operated across Hull and East Yorkshire since 2009.
A new pop-up store has opened in Beverley’s thriving Flemingate Centre for vintage clothing brand Poorboy Boutique.
In Hull’s fruit market urban village on Humber Street, Poorboy Boutique was founded nine years ago and has thrived since.
Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart invites students across his constituency to visit Parliament or to invite him to visit their schools.
A weeklong event dedicated to spreading the word about how Parliament works will take place between the 14th and 20th of November.
There’s a puppet with good taste and a sweet tooth staring out of the window of Nicky Condette’s TC Patisserie on Lairgate.
They are just one of the businesses and organisations backing the Beverley Puppet Festival with their Beverley Puppet Trail window displays.
Following on from their successful runway show at York Fashion Week, East Riding College’s fashion students’ creations took to the catwalk again in a triumphant end-of-year show at the College’s Beverley campus.
The Fashion & Design end-of-year show showcased the work of students who study at the newly refurbished fashion studio.
A public art event which makes puffins the stars of stories of conservation, global warming and green energy has taken off with the installation of the first sculptures in a trail stretching along the coast of East Yorkshire.
Organisers of Puffins Galore! placed the first sculpture at the RSPB Centre at Bempton, home to almost half a million seabirds which cram onto the cliffs every year. The second puffin was installed at North Landing, Flamborough, with another in the centre of the village and a fourth at Sewerby Hall.
The new Principal of East Riding College has spoken of his pride at taking on the position, and said he’ll be fully focused on ensuring students develop the skills and knowledge required to meet local industry needs.
Danny Metters officially joined the college in June after nine years in various roles at Bishop Burton College.
East Riding College is proud to be part of Puffins Galore! and to have created one of the puffin sculptures being installed along the East Coast this summer.
Puffins Galore! hope to attract visitors to the area with the new art installations. The project follows the award-winning Hull and East Riding trails ‘Larkin with Toads’ and ‘A Moth for Amy’.
East Riding College Principal Mike Welsh will retire at the end of May. During over four years in charge Mike oversaw a number of major developments. Most significantly, he led the College through what was described as an exemplary merger with TEC Partnership, securing its long term, sustainable future.
Mike’s tenure has also seen significant increases in student and apprentice numbers as well as the construction of a brand new Institute of Technology at the College’s Flemingate campus.
More than 40 puppet theatre companies will be descending on East Yorkshire at this year’s Beverley Puppet Festival which runs from Friday, July 15 to Sunday, July 17 in indoor and outdoor venues across the town.
Tickets are now on sale for over 60 events, plus a six-day puppet making workshop for adults, with the festival opening on Friday evening with the Eurovision Sock Contest, by the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, and Zippy And Me, a talk by puppeteer Ronnie Le Drew.
Beverley Town Council has held its first official civic function since the outbreak of the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Taking place on Friday 4th March, the Mayor’s Civic Dinner saw dignitaries from across the county and guests from the town meeting at East Riding College on Flemingate.
A Beverley secondary school whose pupils “leave school very well prepared for life in modern Britain” has been judged as outstanding following a recent Ofsted inspection.
Ofsted inspectors visited Beverley High School in November and judged them to be outstanding in all areas which include the quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development, leadership and management and sixth form provision.
East Riding College has announced that their Principal Mike Welsh will retire in Spring 2022. During his 4 and-a-half years in the post, Mike led the College through a very successful merger with TEC Partnership and raised quality and standards, achieving a Good OfSTED rating.
A landmark office building in Beverley is now a bustling hub of business and learning following a successful restoration, remodelling and refurbishment programme.
Minster House forms part of the market town’s thriving Flemingate centre and has been sympathetically modernised by owner Wykeland Group in a £550,000 project.
It’s a fierce, never-ending debate among residents of God’s Own Country as to where the best place to live is. One name that always crops up in the top-rated Yorkshire domiciles, though, is Beverley.
This town has it all; stunning architecture, world-beating views, and friendly people, and it’s no surprise that so many homeowners want to buy here.
Site Manager Paul Lambert celebrates a hat trick of wins, after being announced as a recipient of this year’s NHBC Pride in the Job Awards; for the third consecutive year.
The Peter Ward Homes’ site manager was one of 450 site managers from across the UK to win a Quality Award in this year’s NHBC’s Pride in the Job Awards, having also won it for his work at Old College, Beverley, in 2019 and 2020.
The TEC Partnership is delighted to announce it has become the region’s first FE college provider to receive Bachelor Degree Awarding Powers.
This significant achievement means the Ofsted outstanding provider, which offers higher education courses at University Centre Grimsby, Scarborough TEC and East Riding College, will have the ability to validate its own degrees from September 2022.