Christmas Card Competition 2020

Congratulations to Year 1 IB student Ushika Kidd who has won this year’s design a College Christmas card competition. Ushika was presented with her prize of a £50 Amazon voucher by Principal, Donna-Marie Janson, today socially distanced around the College Christmas tree. Ushika came to Varndean in September, after having moved to Brighton from Scotland, […]
Varndean College Students Win Crest Awards

Varndean College is celebrating the success of five of its students who have all won British Science Association CREST Awards this year. Four of its recently qualified A Level Biology students; Sona Raju, Keni Patel, Ella Newmarch and Sophie Baker, as well as current Year Two Psychology/Chemistry/Applied Biology student, Nadeen Alay, have all been recognised […]
1st Year Childcare and Development students are now fully trained in first aid

1st Year Childcare and Development students are now fully trained in first aid
Varndean College’s joint pledge in the Further Education Climate Roadmap

Brighton’s three colleges, BHASVIC, GBMET and Varndean College have jointly pledged their commitment to the recently released FE Climate Roadmap with all three aiming to be ‘leading’ institutions by 2023. The Principals of BHASVIC (William Baldwin), Varndean (Donna-Marie Janson) and acting CEO of GBMET (Andy Green) commented that “Climate change is without doubt the single […]
Student Success in the Film Studies Department

During the summer, the Film Studies Department had some great student success. Max Silver and Jonah Garrett-Bannister were both finalists in the national Media Magazine Production Competition in July. Max was a finalist for ‘Best Production’ and his stop motion animation ‘Level Foundations’ went on to win his category, whilst Jonah was one of just […]
Update to Varndean College’s IB Diploma results sees more fantastic outcomes for students

On Monday 17th August 2020, the IBO updated IB schools and colleges with the following statement: ‘Following the decision to cancel the examinations, our assessment specialists in collaboration with independent education experts worked to develop a reliable and valid assessment model to award grades. The awarding model used student coursework, school predicted grades and school […]
Urgent A Level Results Update

Dear all, As you many have heard there has been a significant development with A Level results. Results will now be awarded to Centre Assessed Grades. This is good news for many of you and goes some way to addressing the inequalities in the system. As you know we have been campaigning and lobbying for […]
Watch a short clip of our students receiving their results yesterday

RESULTS DAY 13th August 2020 – A LEVEL AND VOCATIONAL LEVEL 3

(Please note all level 2(GCSES, level 2 Vocational, HPQ) are released on the 20 th August) Your results will be available from 9am. You can choose to collect them results in person from college at 9 am or by logging into your MyVarndean at 9am. Please bring your student card or ID. There is lots […]
Varndean College says goodbye to its longstanding Principal

This month, Varndean College is saying goodbye to its longstanding Principal, Dr Phil Harland, who is taking up retirement after 14 years at the helm. Phil, who came to Varndean in 2006 having previously been Vice Principal at Luton College, took over the role from the late Alan Jenkins and has been the key player […]