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Former student Elizabeth Forkuoh has shown exactly what can be achieved from studying professional cookery and hospitality at college, by working as an assistant manager in a five-star hotel and soaring up the culinary ladder to be named the winner of the Gold Service Scholarship, the UK’s most prestigious front of house of award.

Emma has gone from strength to strength during her career as a track cyclist, at just age 16 she was a junior European champion and at age 18 a national champion in the senior National Track Championships.

Students from Coleg Sir Gâr and Coleg Ceredigion spent a day exploring university life at University of Wales Trinity Saint David where they competed in groups to pitch business ideas to a specialist university panel.

A literacy teacher at Coleg Sir Gâr is taking part in a role reversal exercise with her students as part of the ‘Teach the Teacher’ programme.

Coleg Sir Gâr has welcomed a new member of staff who is already trailing an educational blaze with her inspiring, award-winning campaign work.

Nearly 30 art and design students from Coleg Sir Gâr’s Carmarthen School of Art spent three days in Berlin exploring German culture and all things creative.

Students and apprentices following equine training programmes at Coleg Sir Gâr have recently returned from a visit to Sweden.

A Coleg Sir Gâr A-level student has secured an apprenticeship with one of the four largest international accounting and professional services companies where she will study to be an accountant and eventually gain chartered accountant status

Coleg Sir Gâr agricultural engineering students have won Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE) student awards which were presented at the New Holland plant in Basildon.

Trina Smith says that one of the best decisions she made was to apply for an access to higher education course as it gave her the confidence and skills to train for a new career as a mental health nurse.

Coleg Sir Gâr hosted a Skills Competition Wales event which last year saw two students’ progress to win gold in the categories of joinery and carpentry at a UK-wide final.

Poppy Bishop is a music technology student at Coleg Sir Gâr who has released her first ever music track.

Coleg Sir Gâr and New College Oxford will soon be teaming up as part of the college’s successful application to become part of the university’s Step-Up Programme.

Engineering and computing students at Coleg Sir Gâr have taken part in an overseas educational visit to Croatia where they visited the biggest skills competition in southeast Europe.

Coleg Sir Gâr’s Ammanford campus had a real buzz in its canteen recently when Independent Living Skills students brought it alive with their special St David’s Day event.