Staff and students across Grŵp Llandrillo Menai have been busy celebrating St. David’s Day today (March 1st).
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The numbers have added up for Skills Competition Wales accounting gold medallist Eleri Davies who has won the Grŵp Llandrillo Menai’s Overall Apprentice of the Year 2023 award
On January 25th each year, people all over Wales celebrate St Dwynwen's Day (Diwrnod Santes Dwynwen). Staff and students across the Grŵp Llandrillo Menai network were no different, as they organised a series of fun and informal activities and events in celebration of the ‘patron saint of Welsh lovers’.
Isle of Anglesey County Council and Grŵp Llandrillo Menai have agreed a key Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) - allowing them to establish the first partnership of its kind in Wales.
It’s nearly a year since the lives of Ukrainian citizens were devastated and impacted in every way imaginable. Since then, many of those people have found themselves displaced in foreign countries - one of those countries being Wales. I’m glad to say that Ukrainians - as well as refugees of other nationalities - have been welcomed into Welsh communities with open arms. It’s for this reason that I’ve come to write this piece - reflecting on the role of colleges within communities to support refugees.
In a bid to offer Wales’ best LibraryPlus facilities within a college, Grŵp Llandrillo Menai recently launched the new service across its campuses.
Stakeholders involved in a £38m EU-funded project that supported young people who were disengaging from education and at risk of becoming NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training), gathered at Grŵp Llandrillo Menai’s Rhyl campus to celebrate the difference Grwp Llandrillo Menai’s TRAC project has made to the lives of hundreds of learners across all Grŵp Llandrillo Menai colleges.
Last week we held our Green Digital Future event at Busnes@LlandrilloMenai in Parc Menai. It was great to welcome colleagues, partners and local businesses to celebrate our Green Digital Academy project. Taking centre stage were the SMEs who were part of the project. They shared their experiences and how they have been supported to reduce carbon emissions.
Nearly 2,000 learners across Grŵp Llandrillo Menai gave the college group a giant thumbs-up in a recent student survey, with 99% of learners rating both their college, and the quality of teaching and learning, as ‘very good’.
Apprentice chef Jack Quinney describes swapping a civil engineering university degree course to become an apprentice chef during last year’s Covid-19 pandemic lockdown as a wise career move.