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Lisa Evans, lecturer in childcare at Aberystwyth campus won Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol's Rooting Scheme Award for enriching the learner's or apprentice's experience, which she says is a great honour. This Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol award acknowledges the contribution of a member of staff in the sector to increasing the use of Welsh among learners/apprentices in a variety of less formal settings.
Coleg Sir Gâr’s Carmarthen School of Art will be showcasing the work of aspiring designer makers at Craft Festival Wales.
Students from the college’s textiles, jewellery and ceramics degree courses will be taking part and fine art degree staff and students are also running a sculpture trail.
A construction apprentice at Coleg Sir Gâr is excelling within his employment and apprenticeship programme at Morganstone Ltd and has won the Higher Apprentice of the Year Award at the B-WBL awards which recognises the success of work-based learners.
Inspirational mature student Mandy Price’s motto “Rise up and show up” could not be more apt.
Despite huge personal and family health challenges, including spending five weeks in hospital after clustered epileptic seizures, she refuses to let the condition define her.
Coleg Sir Gâr is proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of its learners in this year’s A-level examinations, reinforcing the college’s mission to shape lives, strengthen communities, and thrive together.
Professional cookery and hospitality students at Coleg Sir Gâr have returned from the north of Italy where they spent five days exploring Ravenna.
Students from Coleg Sir Gâr and Coleg Ceredigion have returned from Slovenia, in a trip which aimed to help them build independence, experience new culture and challenge themselves in nature.
Coleg Sir Gâr and Coleg Ceredigion students have secured their places in a range of industry skills events at the national finals of the prestigious WorldSkills UK competitions.
Students on the college’s animal science and animal behaviour and welfare degree programmes, had a busy schedule which included visiting the Artis Groote Museum and residents at Artis Zoo which include Asian elephants and red ruffed lemurs.
A college director has recently returned from Canada where he took part with other senior leaders from Wales, in an international collaboration to tackle peer-on-peer sexual harassment and misogyny among learners in further education
Apprentices at Coleg Sir Gâr have been presented with awards at the 2025 Apprenticeship and JGW+ Learner Awards.
Attending the awards dinner at Parc y Scarlets were apprentices Evan Edwards, Guto Rogers and Sophie Owen who won various categories of the event.
Every year, animal behaviour and welfare degree students delve into the heart of real-life challenges within the industry, through their individual research projects.
The individual research project, focused on animal welfare issues is a pivotal component of the course which is taught at the end of the degree.
In June 2025, two members of childcare staff – lecturer Lucy Davies and assessor Janice Short – accompanied five learners on a study visit to Montecatini in the Tuscany region of Italy.
A second year catering student at Coleg Ceredigion in Cardigan, has won a Travel Scholarship from ‘The Worshipful Livery Company of Wales’.
A Coleg Sir Gâr A-level student has won first prize in the Eisteddfod for her editing and photography skills used in an image she created which conveyed lost roots of Welsh tradition.
