More Sugarcraft success

More Sugarcraft success at LE SALON CULINAIRE INTERNATIONAL DE LONDRES

The Sugarcraft students at Dunstable College have a long history of entering and winning awards at this competition – the first awards were won in February 1996 (one of which was won by Course Tutor Teresa King) and that success has been repeated at every Salon since, with February 2006 being no exception. Teresa is proud to report that 6 awards were won in this year’s competition:

Gold Medal and Best in Class for Miniature Sugar Flowers – Marcellina Lai

Gold Medal for Co-Ordinated Sprays of Sugar Flowers – Marcellina Lai

Silver Medal for Bridal Spray of Sugar Flowers – Marcellina Lai

Bronze Medal for Sugar Flower Arrangement – Jan Webb

Certificate of Merit for Miniature Sugar Flowers – Bee Allen

Certificate of Merit for Sugar Flower Arrangement – Marcellina Lai

Top Design Project for Foundation Degree students

Students on the second year of their Foundation Degree in Graphic Design and Advertising at Dunstable College have been working on a project for one of London’s top design companies.

Because of the College’s excellent relationship with the Design and Art Direction Association of Great Britain, which has developed over the years with many design students winning their top awards, contact was successfully established with Carter Wong Tomlin, a leading practitioner in the design field.

Volunteers for Action

Students from the First Diploma in Public Services course at Dunstable College are volunteering their services to assist in local community projects or help a local charity with their work.

Award for Youth Trainee of the Year 2005

Marie Bull, 17, left school in 2004 with no qualifications to her name and no idea what she wanted to do in the future – a year and a half later she is an award-winning student with a clear vision for her career.

The Spice of Life

On a cold and frosty Sunday morning, at the end of January, members of Spice left the College laden with items to sell at the Young Enterprise Trade Fair in Milton Keynes. Spice were competing with 117 other stands for the custom of the passing trade.

Bassingbourne 2006

Thirty-five apprehensive Public Services students spent a wintry week recently at Bassingbourne Barracks. This is an annual trip for the students to “Look at life” in the Army.

Students success fighting crime

Following on from the Christmas crime initiative that the National Diploma Public Services students carried out alongside Bedfordshire Police, P.C. Dean Andrews invited them all to the de-brief at Dunstable Police Station at the end of January.

New Look for Tutors

Hair, Beauty and Holistics tutors at Kingsland, not wanting to be outdone by their smartly attired students, are sporting a new look uniform in corporate red.

New Accolade for the Karate Kid

Congratulations to Will Thomas on becoming one of just four Assistant National Coaches for the new governing body Karate England supported by Sport England.

Chiltern Radio workshop for Print & New Media students

BA (Hons) Graphic Design for Print and New Media students enjoyed a fun and informative workshop session with Chiltern Radio. During the week before Christmas, students took part in an intense three-hour evening workshop, run by Karen Carpenter from the Kaz and Karen morning show and Jeremy, a copywriter for the Radio station.

Personal Development Activity Public Services 2006

Course Team Leader Martin Rawles invited the Army to carry out a Personal Development Activity day with Dunstable College’s Public Services students on Monday 16 January 2006. This annual event forms an integral part of the academic year for students, enabling them to enhance their skills in leadership teamwork and all things military.

Any old image

Any old text that springs to mind just to fill a few lines. Must get the Latin sample text out for this for the others!

Just an idea I had

Updating news and vacancies on the College web site is a bit of a job. And only I can do it as it stands at the moment. Someone gives me some huge pictures and some text and I have to fit it onto a new news web page and also add a headline + a bit to the main news page. That, of course, results in the main page getting bigger and I have to decide what to get rid of to avoid it getting too vast as well as the adding the new page + links to whatever I move in a menu on a whole load of other pages.

Now, instead, if the news was collected in a web log like this I could put an RSS feed on the news page. That would feature a headline and a few lines of text and would be automatically updated each time the new items were published.

Visitors could click on the news item and arrive at the appropriate part of the web log.

Advantages:
the person writing the news can put it straight on the web log, subject to authorisation
the pictures will get automatically resized, with big ones available too as links from them
a simpler main news page and no individual pages
no images stored on the web server
Stories could even be written in Word and published direct from there

Disadvantages:
people would be taken away from the site - it would have to open in a new window
the blogger address doesn't look that brilliant - maybe the site name can be maintained
the layout and colour scheme / style won't match the site - maybe someone can work on that and get a bit closer
need to be careful about people adding unwanted Comments - can be disabled, I think
anyone might be able to put the news on their site - I guess they could do that now by copying and pasting and who would really want to anyway

It's worth a try. I'll stick a couple of items in and see what happens. Couldn't use this one and we'd need to sort out the profile stuff and what's displayed.