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Competion Succes : IT Extended Diploma and Media T Level students

Competion Succes : IT Extended Diploma and Media T Level students

Tom Gater2025-07-14T14:37:03+01:00July 14th, 2025|Categories: Awards & Success|

Students from the IT Extended Diploma and Media T Level programmes impressed at the Digital Futures Showcase with their design of a new app FreePath — a real-time accessibility app designed to support people with disabilities. Guided by mentor Will Callaghan, the team pitched confidently to a panel of industry experts and earned three awards: Best Pitch Innovation Award Best Overall Post-16 Project The showcase was part of the Digital Futures Accelerator, a project led by East Sussex Careers Hub and [...]

Bexhill College Receives Award from UK Charity

Bexhill College Receives Award from UK Charity

Tom Gater2025-06-24T11:38:05+01:00June 20th, 2025|Categories: Awards & Success, College News|

The Animal Management department at Bexhill College has been awarded a Bronze Award for their contributions to hedgehog conservation and making our campus hedgehog-friendly. In recent years, the UK hedgehog population has depleted drastically (since 2000, the population has fallen by about 30-75%). The College started the Hedgehog-Friendly Campus project in January and has since been completing actions towards a toolkit to achieve our bronze accreditation. Animal Management students took the lead by becoming 'hedgehog champions' and needed to [...]

1066 Business Awards 2025

1066 Business Awards 2025

Tom Gater2025-06-16T12:30:10+01:00June 10th, 2025|Categories: Awards & Success, College News|

Bexhill College was proud to sponsor the Future Leader award at last week’s 1066 Business Awards organised by Let’s Do Business Group. We would like to congratulate Alice Doucy, Customer Services Manager at Bournes for winning this award. Alice demonstrated her capacity to effectively lead people to drive improvement. The fact that Alice has taken on additional leadership roles with external organisations within the industry was also something that impressed us. Pictured left to right: Alice Doucy (Winner [...]

Bexhill College hosts leader of Rother District Council

Bexhill College hosts leader of Rother District Council

Tom Gater2025-05-22T15:41:57+01:00May 22nd, 2025|Categories: College News|

We recently had the pleasure of receiving a visit from Doug Oliver, Leader of Rother District Council. During his visit, Doug met with a variety of staff and undertook a tour of the campus. He commented: “We have so many wonderful schools and colleges in Rother and I recently had the pleasure of a tour around the superb facilities at Bexhill 6th Form College. Apart from boasting state-of-the-art facilities and amazing pass rates, I was really impressed by the [...]

Bexhill College Football Academy Win U19s County Cup & National League Titles

Bexhill College Football Academy Win U19s County Cup & National League Titles

Tom Gater2025-06-02T11:51:19+01:00May 14th, 2025|Categories: Awards & Success|Tags: football, sport|

Bexhill College in association with Chelsea FC Foundation and in partnership with Eastbourne Borough FC, celebrated the final victory of the season after their Sussex U19 County Cup win against Newman College (Hove) on the 13th of May. After a first half which saw Newman have more of the ball and limited opportunities for Bexhill, it was a stalemate at half-time with neither team creating a clear chance to break the deadlock. The 2nd half began with a change [...]

Debate Students Attend Regional Youth Parliament Competition

Debate Students Attend Regional Youth Parliament Competition

Tom Gater2025-03-18T10:51:20+00:00March 18th, 2025|Categories: Enrichment, Trips|

As part of their debating enrichment, eight first-year students were invited to the south coast regional heat of the European Youth Parliament debating competition. The day long event, held at Bedes School, gave students a chance to test their debating prowess against eight other schools competiting from the area. Maisie, a Bexhill College debate enrichment student, wrote: "Attending the EYPUK regional debate was a great experience. It was really interesting debating other schools across nine rounds of debate, and [...]

University Professors on Breaking Down Barriers in Economics

University Professors on Breaking Down Barriers in Economics

Tom Gater2025-03-18T11:16:06+00:00March 6th, 2025|Categories: Guest Speakers|

Prof. Gabriella Cagliesi and Prof. Sambit Bhattacharyya (Head of Department of Economics) from the University of Sussex spoke to 45 first-year A Level Business and Economics students. They covered in depth topics such as: ‘What is economics?’, ‘Widening participation in economics’, and ‘How under represented some minorities are in economics’. Professor Sambit informed students of the changes in institutions like the Bank of England where over 50% of the workforce is now female, whilst Professor Cagliesi was heartened by [...]

T Level Students receiving outstanding opportunities in NHS Industry Work Placement

T Level Students receiving outstanding opportunities in NHS Industry Work Placement

Tom Gater2025-02-13T16:16:07+00:00February 13th, 2025|Categories: Work Experience|

T Level Health students Evie and Robyn have had the fantastic opportunity to complete a work placement with the maternity team at the Conquest Hospital in Hastings. The girls are currently supporting new mothers and learning the skills needed to work in the maternity unit. They are also observing caesarean sections in the operating theatres which is a very special and memorable event. Evie and Robyn have been supported during their placement by Maternity Support Worker Pauline Parks [...]

Bexhill College Footballers Receive International Call-Ups

Bexhill College Footballers Receive International Call-Ups

Tom Gater2025-02-05T11:02:48+00:00February 5th, 2025|Categories: Awards & Success|Tags: football, football academy|

Two A Level students from Bexhill College have been selected to represent the British Virgin Islands (BVI) Under 17s in their forthcoming World Cup qualifiers. The pair are heading off to play in Costa Rica for the CONCACAF group stage match against the hosts as well as other fixtures against Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Sint Maarten. Sam Sharma and Toby Whiteside were scouted while playing for Eastbourne Borough Under 18s. A British Virgin Islands Football Association scout had [...]

Izzie Everest ends the year with another European Championship Title

Izzie Everest ends the year with another European Championship Title

Tom Gater2024-12-20T12:30:22+00:00December 19th, 2024|Categories: College News|

Bexhill College Student, Izzie Everest, has added another prestigious title to her collection shortly after securing gold earlier this year at the first-ever Adaptive Kata Judo European competition in June 2024. On November 21, 2024, Izzie travelled to Venray, Holland, where she represented Great Britain as a member of the Adaptive GB team in two major Judo competitions. On the first day, Izzie competed in the European Judo Union (EJU) Kata Championships, part of the EJU Get Together Tournament. [...]

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