The last day of West Kent College!

As tomorrow sees the launch of the newly merged College, it means today is the last ever day of West Kent College!

Not much will be changing in terms of the College - we’ll have new ID cards, a different email address, things like that - but the day-to-day teaching will be unaffected and we’ll just be the same College with a different name.

A number of people have asked why we need to change the name and we’re doing it because we feel that the new, merged College of South Kent and West Kent needed a new name and identity to take forward as one brand new College, taking the best of both and hopefully moving forward to be the best in our field.

As it’s the last day why don’t you share your thoughts and memories of West Kent College by adding a comment below. What was your best moment here? Have you made great friends here? Met your future husband or wife? Worked here? Many thousands of people have studied and worked at West Kent College so let’s not forget the great times that people have had here.

Here’s to West Kent College!

Open Day – 13th November

The launch event on Saturday 13^th November is when we’ll announce our new College to Kent and beyond and we’re planning an exciting day at our Ashford, Dover, Folkestone and Tonbridge campuses, but it’s also our main Open Day when anyone can come and have a look at the College, see the facilities we have and the courses we offer, plus it’s a chance to talk to tutors and ask any questions you might have.

It’s from 10am to 4pm at each site and there’s food and drink available so feel free to stay for a few hours, look around, talk to members of the teaching staff and take in some of the fun events taking place on the day. To see what courses are available at each site, please see this link. We do offer many courses at our Tunbridge Wells campus but this will not be open on Saturday 13^th November and instead all the tutors will be at Tonbridge.

To see a schedule of the events and performers (which includes X Factor stars!) for the day then you can check the facebook page. There’s also still time to register for the chance to win £100, but make sure you also ‘like’ the page to keep up to date with all the latest news. You can also register interest in the open day on this page.

We hope to see you there – it’s an exciting day for us when the colleges of South and West Kent finally come together under the same name and identity, but it’s also the chance to find the perfect College and course for you.

Win Backstage Passes for The Main Event!

On Saturday 13th November we’ve got the launch event to celebrate the merger of South & West Kent Colleges. The whole day will be a showcase of what we have at our campuses across Kent in Ashford, Dover, Folkestone and Tonbridge (we’ve also got a campus in Tunbridge Wells but there’s no event there on the 13th) and we’ve got a big open day featuring a chance to look around the campuses and see what we’ve got to offer for you or friends and family, we’ve got a chance to win lots of prizes and we’ve got X Factor stars Lloyd Daniels and The Reason, plus Nicole Jane and a number of great College performers to keep you entertained throughout the day!

All the details are on the facebook page – www.facebook.com/kentsnewestcollege - and this week we will be running a competition each day to win backstage passes! We’ve got five passes for each location and each day a different town will have their allocation up for grabs. Entering the competition is easy… each day a different photo will be posted to facebook and anyone who wants to enter needs to ‘tag’ themselves anywhere in that photo. We will then randomly draw five lucky people from everyone who tags the picture to win the passes. Each picture will have a 24 hour time limit on it and any tags made after that time won’t count. The winners will be announced soon after the time runs out! Got it? It’s simple!

If you haven’t signed up for it yet then you can do so on the facebook page where all the information about the event is and all the latest news is posted. The schedule is now on there and we’ll be adding the College performers to the list very soon, plus you can see directions of how to get to each campus. If you sign up then you could also win £100!

We hope you can make it to one of the campuses on the 13^th November – we can’t wait for the day, it’s going to be lots of fun!

Oh, and we’ll also be announcing our new name to the College on the day…