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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.

Victoria Holmes is a legal apprentice at JCP Solicitors who opted for a work-based learning approach rather than a traditional university pathway.

She is currently undertaking a level five CILEX professional qualification as part of her Coleg Sir Gâr apprenticeship, which is delivered at University of Wales Trinity Saint David’s Swansea Bay campus.

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.

Coleg Sir Gâr is proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of its learners in this year’s A-level examinations, reinforcing the college’s mission to shape lives, strengthen communities, and thrive together.

Professional cookery and hospitality students at Coleg Sir Gâr have returned from the north of Italy where they spent five days exploring Ravenna.

Students from Coleg Sir Gâr and Coleg Ceredigion have returned from Slovenia, in a trip which aimed to help them build independence, experience new culture and challenge themselves in nature.