Myerscough College News

Myerscough celebrates record sporting year

Myerscough College has well and truly won the battle of who is the best sport college in the country after a record year for success across all of its sports. 

While other rival colleges talk about their success in some areas, but fail to mention lack of achievements in others, Myerscough can boast about success across the board in football, cricket, rugby, golf and netball.

Thanks to outstanding coaching and support staff, talented students con .. read more

FEATURE: Feeding the Myerscough family

We caught up with our Catering Operations Manager, Janet Barton, who told us more about just what goes into running the huge catering set up at Myerscough College’s Bilsborrow campus: 

How many outlets do you have on campus and which would you like to focus on?

We have a range of outlets across the campus that accommodate both students and staff alike. Our main restaurant is ‘Richmond’s’, which can seat 250 people .. read more

South African adventure awaits Animal Studies students

Myerscough College Animal Studies students embark on a trip to South Africa this weekend where they’ll spend three weeks working on a conservation project.

Twenty-two students and three members of college staff will be based at the Shamwari Game Reserve, near Port Elizabeth, on the Eastern Cape of the country. Whilst there, they’ll be out to work within a number of duties, including game capture of rhinos and other animals, chopping down of vegetation .. read more

'AASE' accreditation for new basketball programme

Myerscough College is proud to announce the approval by England Basketball to run an AASE (Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence) programme in connection with the Manchester Giants.

The college will become one of the only a handful of similar ‘AASE’ academies in the North West and will join a group of only 16 other institutions nationally who deliver the programme. The accreditation means plans for a high performance centre for elite basketba .. read more

Countdown on to the launch of new Basketball Academy

Myerscough College are launching a brand new Basketball Academy for September 2013, in partnership with Manchester Giants.

The target is that the Academy will produce players of a high enough standard to compete in senior national league basketball and move onto the professional game.

Heading up the course will be Professional British Basketball League coach Neal Hopkins. Neal has won major honours in the British game during his time as Assistant Co .. read more

Myerscough students complete army ‘TED’ course

The latest batch of Myerscough College students to compete a course run in association with the Prince’s Trust and the Army received their certificates in a ceremony yesterday.

The TED (Tactical Engineering Development) project sees students from Burnley who have become disengaged at school, being given the opportunity to make progress towards opportunities to get back on track with their lives. The weekly project saw them based at the TA centre at Swinton .. read more

Myerscough equine student off to Canada thanks to scholarship

A Myerscough College Equine student is heading out to Canada after receiving a scholarship grant of £2,500 awarded by the Lancaster and Morecambe Agriculture and Horticulture Society Scholarship programme.

Coralie Martlew, 24, from Penrith, is currently studying on the BA (Hons) Equine Management Degree at the College and applied for the scholarship after being notified by her tutor of the opportunity.

She is now heading across the Atlantic whe .. read more

Former sportsturf student head-hunted by PSG

A former Myerscough College Sportsturf student, a two-time winner of the IOG Professional Football Groundsman of The Year, has been charged with looking after the playing surface at top French club, Paris Saint-Germain.

Jonathan Calderwood, who studied at Myerscough in the mid 90s, already has a string of accolades to his name and was voted Institiute of Groundsman (IOG) best in the English Premier League twice in both 2009 and 2012 for his work with Aston Villa. .. read more

More national praise for Myerscough College Higher Education courses

A national newspaper has named Myerscough College as one of the best providers of land based higher education courses in the country.

The results have been published in the latest edition of The Guardian University Guide for 2014. Myerscough are third – in the top 10% - in the league table covering educational establishments that provide courses in land based industries including farming, countryside management, animal studies and arboriculture.

Floristry students compete in World Skills event

Three Myerscough College floristry students took part in a World Skills competition in Manchester at the weekend.

17-year-old Alice Procter, from Blackburn; 20-year-old Sadie Dixon, from Colne; and 16-year-old Florence Percival, from Burnley, are all studying a Level 3 BTEC in Floristry at the college.

They were chosen to represent Myerscough at the event at The Manchester College, which saw the three students being asked to create a floral cushion t .. read more