Varndean College appoints its first female Principal
Varndean College, Brighton has appointed a new Principal and CEO to start in September following the upcoming retirement of Dr Phillip Harland, after 14 years in post. Donna-Marie Janson will take over as the establishment’s eighth Principal, and the first female Principal in its history, since it was founded back in 1884. Indeed, she will […]
STEM Centre Update
Just before the Christmas break, management at the College were invited on a site visit of our newly constructed two-storey STEM Centre. Equipped with safety boots, clothing and hard hats, six of us had the opportunity of venturing into the proposed science labs, classrooms and prep rooms, as well as viewing the fabulous main grand […]
Life Behind Bars, From Offence to Freedom
Inspirational speakers visited Varndean College today as part of a true-life conference about life behind bars in prison. Presented by the organisation ‘Behind Bars’, the conference was attended by 70 Psychology students and their tutors and consisted of released prisoners who have served between 4 and 20 years prison sentences. The released prisoners were from […]
Varndean finish 1st in ‘Cycle September’
Members of Varndean College staff once again took part in the ‘Cycle September’ competition this year and after having come 2nd in 2017 and 3rd in 2018 are proud and delighted to have won 1st place this year! A team of 22 cyclists took part in the 200-499 staff category and clocked up 1,792 miles […]
Christmas Card Competition 2019
Year 1 International student, Jiahui Yang (Yura) from China, is this year’s winner of Varndean’s annual design a Christmas card competition. Yura was presented with her prize of a £50 Amazon voucher today by College Vice Principal, Donna-Marie Janson. Yura, aged 17, who is studying A Levels in Graphic Design, Media Studies and Maths can […]
Education and Bass Day
Three leading producers from Education & Bass came down to see us at Varndean College to give two masterclasses on remixing. Raff (Nurve), George (Guzi), and Andrew (Nomine aka Outrage), first went through a workshop on ‘What is Remixing’, which founding member Andrew believes is one of the best ways to get students learning about […]
Chemistry students hear from top trauma surgeon about cutting out youth violence
Year 1 A Level Chemistry and IB students visited the Brighton and Sussex Medical School back in November to listen to a talk on ‘Cutting out Youth Violence’ by London lead consultant vascular/trauma surgeon, Mr Martin Griffiths. Mr Griffiths, who works at the Royal London Hospital has spent years touring schools to educate young people […]
For the second year running a Varndean Student wins the Sussex Police ‘Cadet of the Year’ Award
For the second year running a Varndean Student wins the Sussex Police ‘Cadet of the Year’ Award
Varndean College partners with local non-profit BHESCo to install 180 solar panels
Varndean College has partnered with local non-profit Brighton & Hove Energy Services Cooperative (BHESCo) to install 180 solar panels on their roof of the college. The rooftop solar array is expected to generate 51,660 kilowatt hours (kwh) of electricity annually, which is estimated to save the college up to £4,500 each year by generating free […]
Creative Media students get to try out VR technology
Year 2 CTEC Level 3 Creative Media students were visited by Chris Hogg, Media Arts Lecturer from Royal Holloway University on Friday 20th September. His visit was primarily to talk to students about progression to study Media & Film at university and to give tips about how to write a Personal Statement. However, he also […]