Education and Training News & Updates
The National Citizens Service is a 4 week project improving the lives and skills of young people, while helping the community come together to improve local areas in Heanor and Ripley.
Find out if you could get involved and have fun this summer.
- 6th February 2013
If you're passionate about Langley Mill and the surrounding area, and love its history and heritage, help preserve the stories, memories and artifacts by joining the Langley Mill Heritage Group
- 18th December 2012
Find out why our local students have been in the nick in Ripley...
- 18th December 2012
The following blog was published on the Ripley Town Council Website - such great advice we hope they don't mind us sharing it...
- 18th December 2012
Police in Ripley are stepping up their campaign to keep festive shoppers safe.
- 27th November 2012
A new loan fund has been launched which aims to help budding young entrepreneurs across Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire start-up their own businesses.
- 23rd November 2012
Sending lots of Christmas Cards through the post this year? With the rises in the cost of stamps keeping in touch at Christmas is more expensive than ever, but there is hope for people on low incomes...
- 14th November 2012
A North Derbyshire accountancy firm has been named as one of the East Midlands’ best employers in the regional final of the National Apprenticeship Awards and National Training Awards 2012.
Olympic Gold medallist Jessica Ennis is coming to Chesterfield College next Friday the 16th November to officially launch its new reception, learning centre and heart space building.
Halloween has become huge in the last few years, and nearly all of us will do something to mark the day, whether it be carving a pumpkin, dressing up as witches, ghouls, ghosts, zombies or skeletons and maybe even going trick or treating! But do you know how our Celtic ancestors celebrated the 31st October? Read on as Heanor Gate Science College Students tell us all about it...