News & Updates

17-year-old EDC student Lucy Wood, from Peterlee, made her editorial debut last week, sharing the story of her personal diagnosis with MS and how it’s affected her life since an early age.

At the age of just 15, Rachel Murray of EDC’s Transitional Development Service has started an exciting new business venture.

East Durham College student Rayna Kovacheva has won two awards at the first annual Concept Hair Apprentice of the Year competition.

East Durham College 6th Form student Evan Carroll, from Hartlepool, has won a literature competition held specially in response to the Covid-19 lockdown.

We’re very pleased to announce that East Durham College is one of the first colleges to be part of the WorldSkills UK Centre of Excellence, in partnership with NCFE, to mainstream world-class standards in skills development in the UK.

East Durham College is thrilled to announce that A Level students at the college’s sixth form, ED6, have achieved 100% pass rate this year, the fifth consecutive year that students at the college have achieved this milestone. In addition, all students at the sixth form achieved grades A*-C, with 38% achieving A* grades and 88.46% achieving A*-B.

An industrial placement has been the key for unlocking a future career for East Durham College student Callum Fishwick, who has now secured employment at Seaham-based engineering firm Kraftwerx as an engineering apprentice.

It’s an amazing story of sausages to silver medals for East Durham College Peter Jones Enterprise Academy students Matthew McGregor and Lucas Duncan as they have achieved second place in the Peter Jones Tycoon Enterprise Competition 3K category 2020!