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Posted on January 12, 2023

FE Week Staffroom Article

The road to employment for students with SEND  Who has the upper hand in our labour market – employee or employer? With ‘we’re hiring’ and ‘vacancy’ signs commonplace, you might be forgiven for thinking that job seekers have it all their way but that’s not quite the case for young people with SEND. Currently, fewer than one in four young people with high functioning autism access education after GCSE level...

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Posted on December 7, 2022

Harrison College Partner with Doncaster Knights

Harrison College Partner with Doncaster Knights - Doncaster Knights (drfc.co.uk) Harrison College Partner with Doncaster Knights We are pleased to welcome Harrison College as one of our newest club partners. The Doncaster based specialist business and employability college has joined the Knights as a club partner with a main aim of mutually beneficial work placements at Castle Park. Principal Gemma Peebles, who established the college just over three years ago,...

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Posted on December 5, 2022

Double Award Win for Harrison College at Doncaster Chamber Business Awards

At the glamorous and glitzy 24th annual Doncaster Chamber Business Awards, Harrison College broke records by winning not one but two categories. Harrison College won SME Business of the Year and Success Through Partnerships Award. SME of the Year Award sponsor, ORB Recruitment said of the entry: " This business demonstrated consistent and stable growth alongside their strategy and delivered multiple strong examples of their growth, the impact it has...

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Posted on November 8, 2022

Creative Writing at Harrison College

Creative writing at Harrison College Doncaster (hivesouthyorkshire.com) It’s been so much fun and so insightful holding the huge majority of our workshops and groups online over this past year – we’ve opened the door to loads of new writers and we’ve loved finding new ways of working – both for us at Hive, and for the writers taking part. We’ve been doing things as safely and sensibly as possible. We...

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Posted on October 24, 2022

Harrison College wins national award for its dedication to supporting children and young people with SEND

Doncaster college wins national award for its dedication to supporting children and young people with SEND | Doncaster Free Press Ground News - A Doncaster college has won a national award for its dedication to supporting children and young people with SEND Nasen Awards 2022 winners (feweek.co.uk) Doncaster’s Harrison College has collected the top prize for 16-25 Provision at nasen’s sixth annual Awards. The college was put in the spotlight...

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Posted on August 8, 2022

Award for ‘future-focused’ college

Harrison College Wins Prestige Award - News (doncaster-chamber.co.uk) A college has won a prestigious accolade for helping to prepare students with autism for the world of work. Harrison College, Doncaster, has been awarded the title Specialist College of the Year in the Corporate Livewire Prestige Awards. The college is a specialist business, enterprise and employability education provider for post-16 students with special educational needs. The Corporate Livewire Prestige Awards recognise...

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