They’re often seen as the sign of a creative mind and an active lifestyle, and apparentl
Nathan Copeland is a goalkeeper for Portadown under 20’s and Northern Ireland under 16’s, as well as studying brickwork at South West College. Way out West caught up with him to hear about some of his experiences. Life in Football ‘I currently play for Portadown under 20’s...
For a long time, Higher Education and University were thought of as one and the same, with any educational path other than university considered a back up option and not for students with a history of getting the best results possible. Certainly for Clodagh Devlin,...
For most of us the image of homelessness is bleak and depressing, but also fairly alien. We picture homelessness as the cliche of someone in a sleeping bag on a street corner, with cardboard signs and a cup or a hat, begging for change. But...
Renewable energy initiatives are in the news everyday, and few things have caused such a change in industry ideas and practices in recent years. Last year Britain went a full day without using coal to generate electricity for the first time since the 1880s, in...
Nicole Hurson owns Rachel and Nicole’s hair and beauty salon along with Rachel Evans, which has been open in Magharafelt for two years. It's a dream come true, but comes as the culmination of a lot of hard work, and ambitions she's had all her...
#SWCAlumni South West College Alumni have gone on to achieve success in various careers and walks of life. Way out West is catching up with some of them to hear what they’re up to now and how they remember their time at SWC. This time, we...
Ciara McDonald, studying a Foundation Degree in Product and Graphic Design, talks to Way out West about her time at South West College and what she hopes to do next. Watch the video interview with Ciara, and read below to find out even more about...
By Eimear Bradley During the month of November students from the Childcare and Health and Social Care department were given the opportunity to go out to Sweden for a three week trip. Ten of us participated in the trip from across the three South West College campuses,...
South West College student, Seamus Goodfellow, will represent the UK at the 2016 EuroSkills in Gothenburg, Sweden in December, when five hundred competitors from over twenty countries gather to compete in thirty-five vocational skills, in what is Europe’s biggest skills competition. From Donaghmore, Seamus has been...
Depending on who you ask, Art is whatever you want it to be, whatever the artists says it is, or according to Andy Warhol, ‘whatever you can get away with’. Either way, what all these ideas have in common is that the boundaries of Art...
