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Monday, 10 August 2015

Keri Kane, 20, from Parkstone is helping to make the famous Yellow Buses of Bournemouth run smoothly.

As a member of the finance team Keri has become the first Yellow Buses apprentice - and she’s loving it. Keri has completed her one year Level 2 AAT Apprenticeship and will return to the college in September to begin Level 3.

Keri says as a junior part of the Administration Team she was surprised at the level of responsibility she was given from day one.

Monday, 10 August 2015

A change in career ambition has proved to be a winning move for Bournemouth & Poole College student Joanna Holmes.

Joanna, 21, from Poole, set out as a catering student at The College, but decided that the heat of the kitchen was not for her and moved into the challenging world of Business Administration.

Her decision has worked out well as her Apprenticeship year with homes provider Aster Group has led to a full-time job offer, weeks before the official end of her Apprenticeship course.

Friday, 07 August 2015

Award-winning Digital Design student Patrick McAndrew is justly proud of his re-working of a famous self-portrait of Vincent Van Gough.

It has all the bright colours and expansive swirling background and weather beaten look of the troubled artist - but it isn’t quite what it seems.

The work of the master impressionist has been “morphed” digitally into a self-portrait of Patrick complete with the Van Gogh beard.

Thursday, 16 July 2015

College plays host to Big Bang event in association with Careers College.

Around 600 Dorset schoolchildren enjoyed a journey of discovery when The Bournemouth & Poole College played host to the annual "Big Bang @ Bournemouth & Poole College" event. The event was co-sponsored by The Bournemouth & Poole 14-19 Team and the college. 

Thursday, 02 July 2015

Jasmine Jackopson at the tender age of 17 has already been making an impact in the world of theatre costume design.

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has accepted one of Jasmine’s ‘creations’ and now she’s been given a summer secondment to the National Youth Theatre (NYT). Four thousand ambitious students across the UK applied to work at the NYT over the summer holidays. And Jasmine is one of only 64 who have been chosen.

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