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Olympic Pole Vaulter Holly Bleasdale visits Runshaw

Holly Bleasdale returned to Runshaw College – where she used to study – yesterday to give sports students a master class in the art of pole vaulting. The Preston-born star is one of the hot favourites in the women's pole vault at the 2012 London Games after enjoying an amazing rise to prominence over the past year. Having never attempted the discipline until around four years ago, Bleasda...

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TV Dinosaurs come to Runshaw

Dr Phil Manning from the University of Manchester, a world-leading palaeontologist and dinosaur expert, who has starred in numerous television documentaries including ‘Jurassic CSI’ on National Geographic and the BBC’s ‘Fossil Detectives’ came to Runshaw College to deliver a lecture to our A level Geology students. Dr Manning and his acclaimed team are for the first time able to provide reliable ...

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Runshaw College are North West Champions again - for the 12th year in a row!

Below is the North West Colleges’ Sports Championship table as of 20th April (due to two competition results not yet completed). The first two places however cannot be affected by the results - meaning that Runshaw are indeed North West College's Champions 2012! 1 Runshaw College 169 2 Holy Cross College 157 3 Cardinal Newman College 99 5 Winstanley College 6...

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Foxholes 25th Anniversary Celebrations

Anniversary Dinner – 25 years of Foxholes Brasserie - Great evening, great people, great students! Foxholes Brasserie, Runshaw, celebrated 25 years on Tuesday 27th March by welcoming back 8 ex-students to work with the current cohort to produce an Anniversary Dinner for all those who have helped in its success. The evening was a great celebration, enjoyed by local suppliers and employers, loya...

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Brian Ashton (MBE) comes in to college to train the Runshaw Rugby team!

The Lancashire Schools Rugby Competition this year will see a new college in the final of the Lancashire Plate - Runshaw College! The team played a number of difficult fixtures to reach the final, beating Clitheroe Royal Grammar School, Rossall School and Morcambe High School to book their place at Liverpool St Helens Football Club TONIGHT and spectators are welcome, the kick off for this game ...

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Over £1000 raised for the British Heart Foundation!

During February Students and Staff from Runshaw College undertook a physical challenge covering either 10k, 20k or 50k on exercise equipment. Together they raised a total of £1089.26 for the British Heart Foundation’s Mending Broken Hearts Appeal. Pictured here are some of the successful volunteers with Barbara Dunn from the British Heart Foundation.

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Runshaw is the first college in Lancashire to receive the Dyslexia Friendly Award

Congratulations to the Dyslexia Specialist Team in Study Support who have worked so hard to achieve the highly prestigious British Dyslexia Association dyslexia friendly accreditation kite mark, which we will now display on our stationery and publicity materials. The BDA Quality Mark is an external sign of approval of a dyslexia friendly organisation conferred, by the BDA. This is awarded to thos...

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League tables explained

League tables are a minefield to navigate, but colleges also have to deal with the added confusion over the difference between points and grades.   Exam league tables are generally referred to as A-level tables. However, they are actually made up of points calculated from results in a wide range of qualifications including the A2, AS, NVQs and National Diplomas. Qualifications such as ASDAN’s C...

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Table Toppers Yet Again!

Once more our sixth form college students have done better than all other students in the North of England!We are, for the third year in a row, second nationally only to Hills Road College Cambridge, which is a highly selective sixth form college. We have the best score of all colleges in the North of England, including all the private selective schools on points score per exam entry.This league t...

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Caroline wins 02 Prize

A Runshaw College music student has won a top prize in a national talent search after performing at London’s O2 Arena. Caroline Eve, 16, a music and performance student at the Leyland college, beat thousands of others from across the country to take the competition’s Exposure Award in the final at the prestigious venue’s 2,500 capacity Indigo theatre. After winning through local heats and regi...

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