Students with autism and other learning difficulties have taken their first step on the career ladder thanks to their Doncaster based college’s partnerships with local employers. Multi award-winning Harrison College has run two weeks of National Careers Week with workshops and trips for its students, who are aged 16 to 18, to engage with 20 businesses. Students also visited Opportunities Doncaster Live where they interacted with over 75 businesses and...
Read moreThe Staffroom - The Road to Employment for Students with SEND https://feweek.co.uk/the-staffroom-the-road-to-employment-for-students-with-send/
Read morehttps://senmagazine.co.uk/sen-online/sen122/#p=1 Find an article written by our CEO Gemma Peebles on page 31/32.
Read moreThe 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...
Read moreHarrison 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,...
Read moreAt 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...
Read moreCreative 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...
Read more2022 Certificates - The Award for Excellence in Special Needs Education - The Pearson National Teaching Awards 2022 Certificates - The Award for FE Team of the Year - The Pearson National Teaching Awards
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