Varndean College pays tribute to the NHS
Instead of clapping for the NHS last night, Varndean College adopted an alternative way to pay tribute to the work of the NHS. With its campus still closed to the majority of its students, the College found a great use for its currently redundant football pitch. Local grounds maintenance company, SLS, recently contacted the College’s […]
Varndean College IB Student wins 2 nd prize in University of Oxford’s Poetry Competition
Second year IB Diploma student, Fiyinfoluwa Oladipo, has today learned that he has won second place in the University of Oxford’s Christopher Tower Poetry Competition. Now in its 20th year, the Christopher Tower Poetry Competition is open to students aged between 16-18 years and was set up at the bequest of the late Christopher Tower […]
Varndean College student springs into action to make PPE for Care Workers
A Varndean College student has sprung into action to design and assemble visor kits for care workers as a protection against COVID-19. Aidan Maraj, a first year 3D Design student, got in touch with his tutor, Sarah Lampard-Sawyer, in the Visual Arts Dept, to see if Varndean could help to supply an essential part of […]
Sad News – Alan Jenkins
It is with great sadness that we have to report the death of former College Principal, Alan Jenkins, on Tuesday 18 March 2020 after a short illness. Alan was Principal of Varndean College for 18 years from 1988 – 2006, joining when it had just 500 students and managed its expansion to accommodate more than […]
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 […]