Two computing students from The Bedford College Group have won through to the World Skills finals in website development
Daniel Cobzariu and James McKay are in the final eight at the national competition to be held later in the year.
The Bedford College Group has a high profile in computing competitions in World Skills. This year the Bedford College campus hosted a regional competition for cyber security using its top of the range facilities.
And in November 2021 two computing students, Ben Grayson and Aleksander Budny competed in the WorldSkills National Finals competition in Cyber Security which took place at New College Lanarkshire in Scotland.
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Tower-ing talent
Pictured top: July 2022 IT trainee James McKay won/was shortlisted for the BCS Digital T Level Student of the Year at the ceremony at the Tower of London. BCS is the Chartered Institute for IT.
Coming in September 2022
In November 2021, funding was announced for the Group for Higher Technical Qualifications, modern IT suites. Courses begin on Tresham College Corby, Kettering and Bedford campuses in the new autumn term 2022.
Said Head of Computing Paula Hobday: “We will be running the new HTQs from September in 4 pathways – General, Applications Development and Testing, Cyber Security and Network Engineering.
“We have a newly refurbished lab with brand new equipment and a break-out room for students. In addition we were involved in the marketing campaign which was filmed using our equipment, the videos for which are now on YouTube.”
Beds Bulletin – Borough edition
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