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Student activities

EGX London

The event is a vibrant celebration of computer games and comic culture, offering students the unique opportunity to engage directly with independent game developers, authors, artists, and actors.

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Resolve IT

Get hands-on experience, working for real clients as part of our learning company, Resolve IT. Watch our YouTube video with the button below.

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CybXpo

Digital, creative and IT careers were the main focuslast week as the computer science curriculum embraced ‘CybXpo’.

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Cyber escape room

Students took part in an engaging cyber escape room at the Mining Remediation Authority, aimed at enhancing their skills in cyber resilience.

Meet the teachers

Aaron Hulka

Andrew Mellor

Dave Brockhouse

Hamish Spencer

John Gell

Juliana Ackon

Paula Hyde

Piers Ching

FAQs

• Where will I study?

  Our computing courses are based at the Derby Road campus, Mansfield, and have a dedicated area with rooms for study and practical work.

• What is it like?

  College is an adult, professional environment intended to prepare you to work in your chosen industry. We expect our students to behave in the way that they would in a job with an employer. Attendance and punctuality are very important too. As our aim is to get students into industry, we work with them on their own personal presentation while on the study programme.

• What will I study?

  The courses are a mix of practical IT sessions and more traditional classroom learning. While there is plenty of opportunity to practice your programming skills or fix computers, you will still be expected to understand the theory behind some of the practice, so classroom learning is also important. The higher the level of study programme that you’re on, there will be more theory combined with practical. The computing team involve their students in lots of hands-on project work, so there are plenty of opportunities to learn ‘on the job’. Some of these projects are for local employers and you will be expected to present back ideas to them.

• What about English and maths?

  If you start at college and you haven’t yet achieved your English and maths GCSEs at grade 4 or above, then you will continue to study these alongside your chosen course. At the end of your first year you will take a re-sit GCSE exam. It is important you attend your English and maths lessons alongside your chosen course.

• What will I have to wear?

  Computing students can wear whatever they want to come to college in, as long as it’s appropriate and isn’t offensive. We have no dress codes in terms of hair colour, jewellery etc. There may be occasions when students are asked to come dressed appropriately for the workplace, which is more than likely when they are presenting to their class or working with local employers on projects. This does not necessarily mean wearing a suit, but looking smart, clean and well-presented.

• Will I have to do a work placement?

  At levels 2 and 3 you will be expected to complete a work placement. Past students have enjoyed some great placements will really good employers. The central work placement team can help find you an opportunity. This is a great way to get your foot in the door and maybe even move into a job like some of our past computing students.

  All of our students will be able to also get engaged with our learning companies, which provide in-house opportunities to gain real-world experience. This year students are doing a whole range of projects from refurbishing automated demonstration systems for engineering, providing IT support to the rest of the student body, and providing IT repairs for a whole range of kit.

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