Varndean College student wins ‘Cadet of the Year’ Award
Varndean College student wins ‘Cadet of the Year’ Award Congratulations to Year 2 Varndean student, William Jeynes (formerly of Oathall Community College), who studies Protective Services, Criminology and Photography. William, who is a Police Cadet in Mid Sussex, recently gave a presentation to 1500 Sussex police cadets and dignitaries on the subject of ‘Stop and […]
Stitch Festival 2023 Finalists!
Three of Varndean College’s Year 2 Textiles students recently made it to the final of the London 2023 Stitch Festival. The Stitch Festival takes place at the Business Design Centre in London each year. This year, three of our Year 2 students were invited to attend the show as finalists in the festival’s annual Dressmaking […]
Success at Brighton & Hove Citizens Assembly
Staff and students from Varndean College recently attended another successful Citizens UK event where hundreds gathered for one of the largest events of the local election season. Varndean College Principal, Donna-Marie Janson, College Vice-Principal (Student Services) Lisa Watkin-Stevens and Director of Student Engagement, George Marshall, addressed some pertinent issues affecting students across our city. The […]
STEM Fest 2023
The week beginning 20 March saw Varndean College host its annual STEM Fest event, with talks being delivered by specialists throughout the week. Speakers were invited from various Science, Maths, Engineering and Technology professions, who came to provide informative and engaging talks about their work and career paths to their current position with a description […]
College Tree Planting
As long ago as 2010, students and staff planted around 100 trees in the newly created biodiversity reserve on the northern perimeter of the college campus. This area is now a wild habitat with many of the trees flourishing alongside naturally seeded trees from nearby hedges. More recently, there have been several projects aimed at […]
Varndean College in partnership with FE Sussex wins prestigious AOC Beacon Edge Award
Varndean College, as part of the FE Sussex Partnership, has won the prestigious Beacon Edge Award in The Nous Group Award for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). FE Sussex is an innovative and collaborative consortium of seven sixth form colleges – Varndean College, BHASVIC, Bexhill College, The College of Richard Collyer, Plumpton College, Chichester College […]
Varndean College’s ongoing commitment to sustainability
As part of Varndean College’s commitment to climate education and our pledge to promote the embedding of carbon literacy into our curriculum, staff and students of A Level Textiles, Photography and Graphics recently undertook a collaborative and creative project, enabling multiple pieces of content to come together in one final outcome. The theme of the […]
Fifteen-year-old Lily wins College festive card design competition
Huge congratulations to 15 year old Varndean student, Lily Kershaw, who is this year’s winner of our Festive Card design competition. Lily, who was home educated and is now an Intermediate student at Varndean currently studying a package of GCSEs, is pictured here being presented with her £50 cash prize by Principal, Donna-Marie Janson. Lily’s […]
Varndean Sixth Form College officially opens its £2.9m STEM Centre
It was a huge pleasure to welcome Professor Robert Winston to officially open Varndean Sixth Form College’s £2.9m STEM Centre yesterday. Delayed two years by the Covid pandemic, the centre was created to inspire the next generation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians and puts Varndean at the forefront of offering the finest opportunity to […]
Green Careers Week – Circular Economy
As part of the nationwide series of events for Green Careers Week (7-12 November), Varndean College was delighted to host Claire Potter from Claire Potter Design, along with her colleague Clare Harris, who presented on Circular Economy. They provided an interesting and informative talk to include an overview of what the Circular Economy is and […]