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Cornwall College in the Guardian29 July 2010
Cornwall College's principal makes some interesting comments in The Guardian about the newest funding 'arrangement' to hit Further Education.
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Harlow College in FeFocus26 July 2010
Harlow College made the TES' (FeFocus) FErret column, it's the Apprentice story again but with a touch of humour. Smile about it here...
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Finalist in Reputation Online!!26 July 2010
We are VERY excited to announce that EMPRA is a finalist in the 2010 Reputation Online Awards.

We’ll be attending a glittering awards' ceremony in London on the 23rd September; we’d really like to win, so everything is crossed!
Our own Ruth Sparkes said; “I couldn’t quite believe it when the notification came, I know it’s a strong entry and we’ve worked really hard on the project, but when you get a well known and respected organisation recognising your work publicly, well, it’s a surprise!
"We’re listed with some really big hitters in the industry, it’s a fantastic line up, and I’m very excited.”
You can see the Awards' shortlist here, and more info on the Reputation Online Awards here
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Treviglas in the TES9 July 2010
Surf's Up! Treviglas Community College is an "Outstanding' School, it's exciting, innovative and inspirational - there is a fab story on page 8 of today's TES. Read the story in The TES
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Harlow College - EVERYWHERE!9 July 2010
Harlow College - everywhere! This is a great story, it started out in The Guardian and then went 'global'. It's appeared everywhere from The Daily Star, The Daily Express, MSN, Yahoo!, AOL The Mirrorand regionals from Belfast to Falmouth - click links in the copy and see the regional list below! We'll update as we find more...
Belfast Telegraph
Peterborough Today
Cambridge news
IC Scotland
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Cornwall College - FeFocus9 July 2010
Cornwall College had a FAB Ofsted, the TES' FeFocus reported the College's good news on page 3. The TES' FeFocus
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Marine Academy Plymouth - TES9 July 2010
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston is launching Marine Academy Plymouth In September, the TES reported it in their fab 'Nationwide' pages. Read all about it here The TES
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Harlow in The Guardian, again!5 July 2010
Fab story about Harlow MP, Rob Halfon's search for an Apprentice. Read the full story here, in The Guardian
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Harlow College in The Guardian15 June 2010
Fab story all about Harlow College's involvement in the unique Essex Apprentices' scheme in today's Guardian
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ShowMyHomework in the TES13 June 2010
Naimish Gohil has created a fabulous new resource to help teachers, students and their parents. Read about Naimish in the TES
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AllYearbooks in The Guardian17 May 2010
Fab story about AllYearbooks in The Guardian, Jake set up his company after a bad experience at university - read all about AllYearbooks here
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Harlow College in TES' FEFocus7 May 2010
Essex is leading the way in Apprenticeships, read how Harlow College is helping make the difference here
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Cornwall College in the Telegraph7 May 2010
Fab story about A-level students in The Daily Telegraph
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Harlow College in Personnel Today!16 April 2010
Paternity leave: Wait until your father gets home! Amanda Hughes, HR director at Harlow College was interviewed for this piece on Paternity Leave
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Harlow & Cornwall in the Guardian12 April 2010
This is a great story by the Guardian's Louise Tickle, all about high flying students who have turned their backs on university. Read the Guardian story here!
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Treviglas, centrefold of the TES!28 March 2010This is a photo story, so the web version of the story doesn't do it much justice, however here's a .jpg (attached) so you can see just how good it really is!
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Cornwall College in the Guardian23 March 2010
Fab story about Students' Unions written by Jan Murray. Click here to learn more.
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TES Connect featured at Teaching News28 February 2010
There's loads happening at the TES, more resources, more downloads and more inspiration for teachers. You can read more about these developments here at Teaching News
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SEEVIC College in today's TES19 February 2010
SEEVIC College in today's FEFocus (TES). When the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) let them down they found another way to finance their new build...
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AllYearbooks featured in BusinessXL18 February 2010
Read all about it...AllYearbooks owner Jake Gordon comments on flexible working - read what he has to say here
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AllYearbooks featured in Business Weekly15 February 2010
Our first 'win' for AllYearbooks, a fabulous leavers' yearbook company, read all about them here in Business Weekly
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Harlow College in The Guardian2 February 2010
The Guardian ran a special supplement to co-incide with National Apprenticeship Week 2010, the supplement is currently not online so please see .pdf below (bottom story)
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Cornwall College in The Guardian2 February 2010
Cornwall College in today's special Guardian Further Education supplement - no online link so please see .pdf below
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Treviglas in The Guardian2 February 2010
Treviglas Headteacher, Helen Mathieson tells us how she feels about schools losing their Gifted & Talented funding, read her thoughts in
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Cornwall College on the BBC and more...26 January 2010
Everyone is loving the Cornish Creche story, here are links from coverage so far...
Children & Young People Now...and again for Nursery World
Western Morning News and here (Monday's edition, front page!)
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Cornwall College in the Guardian26 January 2010
As Further education has become more expensive, colleges have lost students; now they fear that costs are set to soar again read what Cornwall College principal has to say about this in today's Guardian
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Harlow College in The Guardian26 January 2010
Colleges fear course costs will rise again. As FE has become more expensive, colleges have lost students; now they fear that costs are set to soar again read what Harlow College principal has to say about this in today's Guardian
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Harlow College in The TES15 January 2010
Harlow College has made an unusual Governor appointment, read more in the TES (FEFocus). Why not grab a copy from your local newsagent? It's a good read!
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Cornwall College, TES & FEFocus!15 January 2010
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Cornwall College in The Times15 January 2010
This is a fab story that we've been able to place in quite a few publications - further links to come. Here's The Times story.
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EMPRA offers new PR service to budget squeezed schools and colleges8 January 2010
This is a brand new, budget PR service for schools and further education colleges!
As colleges feel the financial squeeze and schools are moaned at for not managing their money, EMPRA launches a brand new service.
Called EMPRA24, it's a low cost, subscription service supporting education establishments with public relations.EMPRA director Ruth Sparkes explains; “EMPRA24 offers peace of mind to the organisation’s senior management and press office/ marketing function.
We have a small team of highly experienced press and PR specialists, offering expert confidential advice, we’re just a phone call or email away. That means 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.”EMPRA24 is a subscription based service and gives access to the following without any further charges, as frequently as they’re required:
Friendly day-to-day advice on any aspect of PR, Communications and Media Relations.
Press release reviewing and editing by return of email.
Emergency support in the event of unwarranted breaking news.The monthly charge for this service is just £600, but if organisations subscribe before the end of February 2010, EMPRA is offering a special 12 months for the price of 10. Contact us!!
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Harlow College in The Guardian5 January 2010
Principal Colin Hindmarch sets out his FE Wish for 2010 in today's The Guardian!
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Cornwall College in The Guardian5 January 2010
Senior Tutor Glynis Kelly wishes on a FE star in today's The Guardian!
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Harlow College in the TES19 December 2009
Harlow College described as a 'titan of journalism' in the TES' Fe Focus
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Treviglas - double page TES Mag!19 December 2009
Helen Mathieson is headteacher at Treviglas Business and Enterprise College in Newquay. She explains to the TES how she has one of the best jobs...
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Treviglas gets 12mins on BBC Radio4!14 December 2009
BBC's Jonty Bloom visited Treviglas College last week to see how the Business & Enterprise College is keeping students engaged and motivated - link to BBC IPlayer here starts at 17:45 mins
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Cornwall's Katy in The Guardian8 December 2009
Cornwall College Apprentice Katy, shares her hopes for education over the next 10 years in today's The Guardian
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Harlow College in The Guardian17 November 2009
When the LSC is no more, will council funding bring a new wealth to colleges? This is a fab story by Louise Tickle.
Colin Hindmarch, principal of Harlow College, believes councils will take greater account of local needs in their funding provision. Read the story here... (Fab picture too!) -
Cornwall College Principal in the TES17 November 2009
Read about the planned kidnapping of Dave Linnell OBE - don't worry, it was all for charity! Featured in FEFocus' FErret
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Ex Cornwall College lecturer featured in the Daily Mail26 October 2009
Ex lecturer Sue Morris is featured in the Daily Mail, read about her life and fantastic new novel, Fritha's Choice online here...
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Treviglas College in a fabulous feature in The Independent!22 October 2009
Read how a community college in Newquay, Cornwall is engaging students to stay in education. Read Liz Lightfoot's story in today's The Independent.
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Cornwall College lecturer in the TES9 October 2009
Paddler Glenn breaks record for a second time. Read all about it in the Times Ed
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Treviglas Business & Enterprise College Headteacher in The Guardian6 October 2009
Treviglas' Headteacher offers education policy advice to the Tories, read her thoughts here in The Guardian
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Treviglas College & Cornwall College story on FE News!6 October 2009
General FE College and Community College working together for the benefit of students! Read story here.
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*NEW* School Website in a box!24 September 2009
Designed to provide you with everything you need for your new school website in one simple, hassle-free package, School-in-a-box is a subscription-based service that combines a feature-rich education website, with full web hosting.
School-in-a-box comes with a set of core features to get the site up and running. You can then add more 'bonus packs' if and when you want them:
Core Features
* Your choice from a selection of website designs that incorporate your logo and colour scheme
* An unlimited number of content pages
* 'Contact us' form
* School News stories (with RSS feed)
* Events Calendar (with RSS feed)
* Photo Gallery
* Easy-to-use Content Management System (CMS)
* Accessibility standards compliant
* Detailed statistics about site visitors
* Website hosting with free software updatesBonus packs
* Online polls and surveys
* Discussion forums
* Newsletter creation & distribution
* School blogContact us now about this fantastic new service!
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Treviglas Business & Enterprise College mentioned in The Sun!15 September 2009
Vera Lynn is number one in the charts again! Read what 16 year-old Treviglas student Niall thinks about this in today's The Sun
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Treviglas Business & Enterprise College feature in The Guardian15 September 2009
Treviglas College is the only 'OUTSTANDING' school in Cornwall - read today's feature in The Guardian to find out why this school is so good!
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Cornwall College - front page TES!28 August 2009
College lecturer, Bex Ferriday was work shadowed by IfL's Chief Executive, Toni Fazaeli.
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Falmouth Marine School and Cornwall College in The Guardian22 August 2009
Three FAB students from the Cornwall College Group (Cornwall College, Duchy College and the Falmouth Marine School) shared hints and tips on how to make their money go further...
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Cornwall College in The Guardian18 August 2009
Katy Pascoe has 10 GCSEs, the International Baccalaureate and... decided not to go to university! She decided to do an Apprenticeship instead!
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Cornwall College in The Independent18 August 2009
Keep Calm and Carry On: When Dominique Baker's A-levels didn't go according to plan, she took an Access to HE course at Cornwall College.
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Cornwall College in The Guardian21 July 2009
Today's Guardian story featuring Cornwall College details the principal's concerns over the new 'grade-limiting' judgement around equality & diversity. EMPRA can help your college communicate equality and diversity - learn more
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EMPRA's Ruth Sparkes in the TES15 July 2009
EMPRA founder Ruth Sparkes is in this week’s TES – it’s not quite her job title but she’s loving the 'PR & Communications Supremo' moniker!
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Harlow College in The Independent2 July 2009
This is a FAB story by Kate Hilpern detailing why studying higher education at your local college can be beneficial.
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Cornwall College in The Daily Mail23 June 2009
We secured a ½ page story in The Daily Mail to tie with VQ day, quite a coup since we tried to work with Edge’s PR company, but they ‘sniffed’ at the story and told us; “She isn't quite what we’re looking for.” Fortunately we ignored them and it turned out she was perfect for The Daily Mail!
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Sue Morris in The Sun18 June 2009
Sue Morris has just published this wonderful children’s book Fritha’s Summer. EMPRA got it reviewed by The Sun. You really should ‘read all about it!
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EMPRA24 launches6 May 2009
A brand new service from EMPRA –
If you need help when something is good or bad, or you need someone to help when there’s a appalling case of ‘indifferent’ at your institution, EMPRA can help.
EMPRA24 is a practical advice service which acts like a ‘virtual’ Press Office or Comms department. It’s subscription based and for a fixed monthly fee you have confidential, 24/7 access to a team of Education PR & Media professionals.
EMPRA24 includes – PR/ Media & Comms advice, Press Release advice & editing, and emergency support for issues and crises.
Ruth Sparkes said; “We all need advice, a sounding board or a second opinion and with the new Support Service, this help is just a phone call away."
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EMPRA’S new clothes!22 April 2009
EMPRA has relaunched! Same name, but with a new look and new services.
EMPRA director Ruth Sparkes explains; “It was time to move forward, to decide what our core services are and to present them in a clear and uncomplicated offer.
“Education is an exciting world to work in, especially now, when we are faced with economic uncertainty. Education and skills are the tools which will help the economy prosper. The UK government has just pledged and extra £650m to colleges, helping them deliver education and training to thousands more individuals.
“EMPRA is here to help those colleges deliver the right messages, to engage more students and to build their reputation, both in their communities and in the national arena.”
