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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.
Fresh Start and Foundation students at Coleg Sir Gâr are celebrating achieving their Duke of Edinburgh (DoE) awards and for the first time in a number of years, many have chosen to challenge their skills even further and completed the silver award.
Travel and tourism students at Coleg Sir Gâr have recently returned from what they are describing as a ‘lifechanging visit’ to Vietnam.
The Taith-funded eight-day trip, took eight students to Ho Chi Minh City and specifically linked them with Thu Duc College of Technology (TDC).
Pupils from Llanelli secondary schools took part in Welsh language workshops at Coleg Sir Gâr to give them a taste of studying Welsh at A-level.
The Hybu Cymraeg Lefel-A event, was organised by Welsh language tutor Philippa Smith, who invited external organisations Partneriaeth and Swansea University to facilitate some of the workshops and streamed through a live link to Stephen Rule, otherwise known as Dr Cymraeg.
Art and design students on an access to higher education course at Coleg Sir Gâr’s Carmarthen School of Art recently exhibited their work at the college’s Thomas Henry Gallery at Job’s Well campus.
A Coleg Sir Gâr A-level student is preparing to study in the USA following an acceptance to study liberal arts at Princeton University.
Hannah Freckleton has fully embraced her college experience, successfully gaining Student Union President status and representing the college as an ambassador.
Harry Howells, a catering and hospitality student at Coleg Sir Gâr, has recently returned from competing at a UK final which has fuelled his culinary journey.
Art and design students at Coleg Sir Gâr are exhibiting their final major projects at an exhibition space at Pibwrlwyd campus.
A mechanical engineering lecturer at Coleg Sir Gâr has recently returned from London where he was nominated along with his wife, to attend the King’s Garden Party at Buckingham Palace.
