College News

Freshers’ Fayre welcomes new students

New students have been welcomed to Gower College Swansea with a vibrant Freshers Fayre held at the Tycoch and Gorseinon campuses.

College Netball Academy joins Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton Relay

Members of Gower College Swansea's Netball Academy team took part in the recent Commonwealth Games Queen's Baton Relay in Swansea.

As winners of a Swansea Sports Award in 2016, the team were invited to accompany the Baton Bearer during Leg 6* of the Relay, which took place between Blackpill and the 360 Beach and Watersports Centre. 

More GCS students heading to Russell Group universities

Students from Gower College Swansea are bucking the trend of two recent national reports.

The first, the figures released by the admissions body UCAS, showed that a quarter of Welsh constituencies have less than 25% of 18 year olds going to university – with Swansea West and Swansea East named as being under 25%, Gower only slightly above, and with Cardiff the highest at 47%.

Welcoming Welsh speakers to the College

This year, for the first time, Gower College Swansea held a Welcome Day for Welsh-speaking young people who have applied to start college in September.  The aim of the day was to help new students become familiar with the campus, meet other Welsh speaking applicants, meet Welsh speaking staff, and learn about the Welsh language opportunities at college.

College’s HE provision given seal of approval

Gower College Swansea has been awarded Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) status which means that it now has equal quality status to a university when it comes to delivering Higher Education courses.

Gower College Swansea A / AS Level results 2017

Students at Gower College Swansea are celebrating an overall A Level pass rate of over 97%, with 1655 separate exam entries.

Of these passes, 82% were at the higher grades of A*- C, 56% were at grades A*- B and 27% were at grades A* - A – all strong percentage increases on our excellent 2016 results.

The overall pass rate at AS Level was 91%, with 65% of those passes being grades A-C and 44% being grades A or B – again, all strong percentage increases on 2016 results.  

There were 3312 separate exam entries for AS.

Six ways to enhance future career prospects over the summer holidays

A few weeks into the summer holidays, students will hopefully be starting to feel relaxed and refreshed after all their hard work during the GCSE and A Level exam period.  With a month of holidays left to look forward to, many will be seeking opportunities to give them a head-start in their chosen careers or in the work place in general. Here, Mark Jones, Principal at Gower College Swansea, looks at six ways students across Swansea could make the most of their free time this summer to boost future career prospects.

What comes next? The stepping stones to success for Swansea students

Students across Swansea will now be looking forward to a well-deserved summer break after overcoming their biggest educational challenge yet: their GCSE exams. While many are set for pastures new, there are those who are still deciding on where to take the next steps of their educational journeys. 

For students in Swansea, there are plentiful opportunities for further study.  Mark Jones, Principal of Gower College Swansea, offers his thoughts on the next stepping stones towards success.

£500 grant for local entrepreneur

The Swansea Seed Fund and C4EE - headed by Sue Poole, Enterprise Manager at Gower College Swansea - have awarded a £500 grant to a young man who has started his own security firm.

Jacob Stone started his security firm, Ozone Security, from the spare room of his Mumbles home when he was just a teen and opted to ditch studying to focus instead on his business, which now employs 15 permanent members of staff on a full time basis.

Nathaniel heads to 'top of the class'

Kick Start student Nathaniel Parker has steadily made his way to ‘top in the class’ at the Gorseinon campus.

The Kick Start Programme is an initiative developed by Gower College Swansea and aimed at Key Stage 4 students who enrol at college to complete a BTEC in Vocational Studies. It enables students to study a range of different pathways and gives them the opportunity to discover an area of interest that they could pursue on leaving school.