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News
OCNSWR Health and Social Care Update
Posted 22 February 2012Special edition available to download now
Unit Delivery Trials / Offer to Support Individuals who are Unemployed 2011-12
Posted 21 February 2012Updated unit list available to download
Government Announcement: Performance Points
Posted 01 February 2012The Department for Education has announced a list of qualifications that will contribute to the School Performance tables for pre-16 learners from 2014.
OCNSWR say "You're Hired" to Business Apprentice
Posted 25 January 2012National Apprenticeships Week 6th-10th February 2012
OCNSWR January Update newsletter
Posted 24 January 2012Available to download online
Events
Skills, Employment and Growth Seminar
22 February 20121st March 2012, London
New Date for Introduction to IQA Training
14 February 201224th May 2012, Taunton
"The Value of Access " - OCNSWR Access to HE Conference 2012
13 February 201229th March, Lyngford House Taunton
Brett Chard
| Brett Chard, Access to HE (Science), Bridgwater College 2010-2011 | |
Winner of an Adult Learners' Week Award 2011 | |
| At 15, Brett Chard left school with no qualifications to run the family shop, and later worked as a lorry driver. Having always had an ambition to work in the care sector, in September 2009 Brett completed a Community First Responders training course, learning basic life support, defibrillator and oxygen training and dealing with medical emergencies. This allowed him to work voluntarily with South West Ambulance Service providing care to the local community until Paramedics arrived. This experience spurred Brett into beginning an Access to Higher Education Science course at Bridgwater College in 2010, taking on two part-time jobs so he could juggle study and family life around them. Brett has recently completed the Access course and has been offered a university place to study to become a paramedic, starting in September 2011. |  |
| Brett said: "I feel that for me to achieve my grades at college and then to get a place at university is something that I never in the past thought possible, but now I feel is achievable." | |
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