Category Archives: Student Success
Aspirations of an apprentice
March 10, 2017
John Ruskin College celebrated Apprenticeship Week through having a focus on one of its own Apprentices, Daniel Connaughton, who works as part of the Estates and Facilities Team at the College. Daniel makes the following comments about his experience: “As soon as I saw the opportunity to do an Apprenticeship in ‘Cleaning and Support Services’ […]
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Poetry Competition
December 15, 2016
Two very different writers develop their creativity in poetry writing The College held an internal poetry competition at the beginning of the Academic year. It was designed by Lisa Claxton, a member of staff who works in the Learning Resource Centre at the College. The Winners of the competition were announced on 12th December 2016. […]
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Celebrating Success at John Ruskin College
August 28, 2016
Students at the College are currently celebrating an overall pass rate of 96% for A Level and Vocational qualifications. Principal and Chief Executive Mohammed Ramzan comments; “This has been a successful year for both students and the College. As a result of their achievements and development of their employability skills whilst at the College, our […]
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Students celebrate success in style
June 24, 2016
The above picture is our student of the year: Khatija Bibi Abdul Latif, Mohammed Ramzan on the left and our guest of Honour David Butler, Head of School Standards, Commissioning and Learning Access from the London Borough of Croydon on the right. Over 400 guests, consisting of family, friends, staff, governors, and employers who work […]
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Outstanding Success for John Ruskin College
August 13, 2015
Staff and students are once again this summer continuing the successful trend of recent years and are currently celebrating an outstanding 100% pass rate at Level 3 with over 83% of students achieving high grades in their BTEC qualifications (equivalent to A* to B across 3 A Levels) The College is also celebrating its first […]
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Celebrating Outstanding Successes at John Ruskin College
June 24, 2015
Simon Bird, the Co-founder of Dotmailer.Com, and highly successful entrepreneur was the Special Guest of Honour at the John Ruskin College Awards Evening, held at the College on 16th june 2015. He was also a student at the College between 1992-1994. The Awards Event is held annually to celebrate the outstanding achievements of the students, […]
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Outstanding Success for John Ruskin College
August 14, 2014
Staff and students are once again this summer continuing the successful trend of recent years and are currently celebrating an outstanding 97.8% pass rate at Level 3 with over 62.8% of students achieving high grades in their BTEC qualifications (equivalent to A* to B across 3 A Levels) Principal and Chief Executive Tim Eyton-Jones comments… […]
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Competition Success for our Hairdressing, Beauty and Barbering students
March 31, 2014
February saw our Hair, Beauty and Barbering students achieving first and second places in several categories in in the AHT southern regional competition, held at Nescot College. The categories involved, ladies evening style, facepainting, barbering and total look level 3 hairdressing. They created hair through the ages based on Dusty Springfield, Boy George and Amy […]
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