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Coleg Ceredigion ILS (independent learning skills) students have been learning about Black History Month, with a particular focus on the achievements and contributions of Black Welsh people.

Her talk inspired thoughtful discussion among the group, helping everyone appreciate the rich connections between culture, identity, and music.

Hephzibah Huggins is an inspiring and creative furniture design student at Coleg Ceredigion who weaves her passion for local nature and the Welsh language into her work.

Coleg Sir Gâr A-level science students worked with medical and dental professionals from the NHS in workshops organised by the college’s Medical Field Programme.

Coleg Sir Gâr AS-level textiles students spent a day at the college’s Carmarthen School of Art where they took part in a graduate-led workshop creating garments to be donated to charity.

Graduates from Coleg Sir Gâr’s Carmarthen School of Art have been invited to exhibit their work at King Street Gallery.

Coleg Ceredigion’s award-winning training restaurant Bwyty Maes y Parc is working with award-winning Ceredigion distillery, In the Welsh Wind, to host an evening of meticulously crafted cuisine inspired by the distillery’s brand new blended Welsh malt whisky, Brychan.

Apprentice Victoria Holmes, who works for JCP Solicitors, has won the Paralegal of the Year award in the Welsh Law Awards.

The company were also successful in other categories of the competition so we asked Victoria, why an apprenticeship and why law?

Academi Steil, Coleg Ceredigion’s training salon in Cardigan, has been recognised with the Phorest Client Experience Award 2025, celebrating its outstanding service and consistently high client feedback.

Coleg Sir Gâr has officially opened its Green Skills Academy at Gelli Aur campus which aims to equip individuals and the workforce with the skills required to help drive the transition to a sustainable and low-carbon future

Two apprentices working at JCP Solicitors have completed paralegal work-based learning programmes under Coleg Sir Gâr’s apprenticeship scheme. Carolina Galanti, from Neath and Caralee Parry from Swansea, will be progressing their legal careers and extending their studies from a level three to a level five university qualification under their current apprenticeship.

The work of a creative media production student at Coleg Sir Gâr has placed her in the top five of the Into Film: Time to Inspire competition, which resulted in an invitation to work with producers at London’s Netflix headquarters for the next step of the competition.

Amber Liles, 17, who is studying a University of Arts London accredited level three diploma in creative media production, submitted a hand drawn storyboard for the competition which asked for stories to inspire five-to 15-year-olds

Lisa Evans, lecturer in childcare at Aberystwyth campus won Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol's Rooting Scheme Award for enriching the learner's or apprentice's experience, which she says is a great honour. This Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol award acknowledges the contribution of a member of staff in the sector to increasing the use of Welsh among learners/apprentices in a variety of less formal settings.

Coleg Sir Gâr’s Carmarthen School of Art will be showcasing the work of aspiring designer makers at  Craft Festival Wales.

Students from the college’s textiles, jewellery and ceramics degree courses will be taking part and fine art degree staff and students are also running a sculpture trail.

A construction apprentice at Coleg Sir Gâr is excelling within his employment and apprenticeship programme at Morganstone Ltd and has won the Higher Apprentice of the Year Award at the B-WBL awards which recognises the success of work-based learners.

Despite huge personal and family health challenges, including spending five weeks in hospital after clustered epileptic seizures, she refuses to let the condition define her. The day after being removed from a ventilator on her first hospital admission, she sat in the intensive care unit completing a presentation for her Bachelor of Science Degree in Animal Welfare and Behaviour.