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.

The new building in Tonbridge - come and see for yourself!

The new building at Brook Street opened last month and here’s a selection of photographs taken by National Diploma Photography students to give you a flavour of what it’s like inside and out.

Their tutor, Nigel Carr, said: “The students had been set a project titled 'Structures, Constructions and Deconstructions' and I thought the new building was an ideal opportunity, for those that were interested, to research innovative photographers work and explore photographing architecture… Only this morning I found two of the students taking self motivated photographs of the building.”

The photos were taken by Dan Wheeler, Andy Robertson, Kieren Plowright, Carrie Coupland and Ele Parkman-Mayne.

The large, modern college building already feels like home and we’ve had fantastic feedback from students, staff and visitors. Inside we are using the latest technology to support students in bright and airy classrooms with numerous open learning and breakout areas. We also provide opportunities for people outside of the College to use our facilities with a 500-seat art centre, a restaurant which is being run by Whiting & Hammond, hair and beauty studios, Costa coffee and Optimise gym.

If you’d like to take a look around the new building, whether you want to study here or use it for business, then we have an Open Day on 3^rd July from 10am-4pm. Alongside this we have a number of exhibitions including the excellent Art and Media Show and Enterprise Factor (look out for the windmill and robots). Everyone is welcome. You can read more about the Open Day here. We are running simultaneous Open Days at all our campuses – North Farm at Tunbridge Wells is also open from 10am-4pm where the Motor Vehicle and Construction Crafts courses will be on display. Ashford, Folkestone and Dover will be open from 10am-1pm.

For more details about the Photography courses available at West Kent College then read here.

The final building work at the College will be finished by September 2011 - exciting times ahead!