News & Updates

It’s becoming a family business at Advantex as company founders Dave O’Connell and Steve O’Connell welcome their own sons to the team as apprentices.

It's been revealed that East Durham College has been shortlisted for the Contribution to the Local Community award.

East Durham College’s senior leadership team couldn’t help but celebrate this week, after receiving the fantastic news that the college’s Houghall Campus, in Durham, had been selected to be part of the Department for Education’s £1.5bn FE Capital Transformation Fund.

Students studying land-based courses at our Houghall campus returned to see new and exciting minor developments to enhance students’ experience.

Ajay Brickwork Offers Exciting Apprenticeship Opportunities to East Durham College’s Bricklaying Students – including taking on their first-ever female Apprentice

The region’s largest specialist land-based college is celebrating today’s government announcement that it will receive multi-million pound government funding to develop a new state-of-the-art teaching and learning facility.

It’s a double day of celebration for East Durham College as it prepares to both open its doors to students returning to face-to-face teaching, and also celebrates its all-women leadership team in time for International Women’s Day (8th March 2021).

East Durham College has been announced as the winners of the Pears #iwill Award for Social Action and Student Engagement in the Association of Colleges (AoC) Beacon awards – the Oscars of further education.