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Five students from Southern Regional College have achieved an exceptional medal haul at the ‘Skills Olympics’ in China. Pictured is the Downpatrick campus of the college.

Five students win medals at 'Skills Olympics' in Shanghai

Members of Moneydarragh Community Hub have received a £1,000 donation as part of Power NI’s Brighter Communities initiative.

Young people are set to blossom with Power NI’s support

Helping to announce SkillBuild 2026 in Northern Ireland, were, from left: Gareth Mone, SRC Curriculum Area Manager, Alan Holubowicz, SRC Wall & Floor Tiling apprentice and 2025 SkillBuild National Finalist, Rachel Dorovatas, CITB NI Director of Industry Training and Support, Peter Farrelly, SRC lecturer and mentor.

Construction Industry Training Board NI (CITB NI) in partnership with Southern R...

Rotary International in Northern Ireland has teamed up with FE in Generation Chef to help the development of the next generation of chefs for local restaurants and other catering establishments

Business leaders back search for Northern Ireland’s next generation of top chefs

EuroSkills and SRC competitors Caolan McCartan and Patrick Sheerin who won a bronze medal at EuroSkills Herning 2025.

NI Students Showcase Regional Excellence at EuroSkills Denmark

Within SRC’s Faculty of Computing Design & Academic Studies, graduate Emma McVerry won the part-time ‘Student of the Year’ Award, sponsored by Sacia, on Friday 29th August 2025. Emma was presented with her award by Brian Reid, guest speaker and CEO of Deli Lites.

From coding to creativity: Graduate Emma finds her passion

Sara Louise Gilpin being presented with the Outstanding Achievement Award’ by Mark Adrian from NCFE.

SRC lecturers revealed as winners of NCFE Aspiration Awards

Triumphant trio: Danielle Grant, Callum McElarney, and Leon Ruddy who were awarded winners of the Rotary Generation Chef final. The students are pictured alongside Kiera Campbell, Sales Director, Henderson Foodservice; Alain Kerloch, Co-Founder of OX Restaurant Belfast; Alan Griffin, President of Newry Rotary Club and Eoin McConville.

Southern Regional College students triumph in Rotary Generation Chef final

SRC CEO Lee Campbell who closed competition activity at the Super Trowel regional heat alongside Super Trowel founder Jack Dawson.

The race is on with Super Trowel’s Newry regional heat

Programme managers from representative Employ Me partners. Pictured (L-R): Jude Keenan (Clanrye Group Employ Me Project Manager), Sinead Mc Kinley (SRC Employ Me Programme Manager), Mairead Hearty (Women’s Aid Support Services Manager)

Employ Me Programme marks milestone with 1,700 participants supported

SRC continues its green powered movement with carbon literacy training for 16 managers.

Southern Regional College celebrates 16 managers achieving Carbon Literacy certi...

Pictured with Economy Minister Conor Murphy at Southern Regional College, Banbridge, are Clodagh Palmer, senior talent acquisition specialist at Banbridge company Alternative Heat, Niall McCartan, year 2 higher level apprentice at Southern Regional College, on work placement with Alternative Heat, Denise Cornett, training and apprenticeship manager, Southern Regional College and Lee Campbell, principal and chief executive, Southern Regional College

Minister launches Northern Ireland Apprenticeship Week 2025..here what's on

Pictured at Parliament Buildings, Belfast with the Economy Minister Conor Murphy are Jason Scott, Robotic Systems Integration, AES Global/Northern Regional College; David McKeown, Autobody Repair, from James McKeown Accident Repair/ Riverpark Training; Daniel Knox, Electrical Installations, from GP Electrical and Security Ltd./South West College; Charlie Carson, Robotic Systems Integration (team of two), Ulster University/Northern Regional College; and Isaac Bingham, Cabinet Making, Monkeywood Luxury Kitchens and Furniture/ Southern Regional College

Fantastic five: Reception for NI's WorldSkills students

Lewis Harrison (18) from Portadown has been supported by Triangle Housing Association to find a new role with retail giant The Range. Pictured with Norman Sterritt, Triangle Progression To Employment manager and Gerard Haughey, employment business development coordinator, Triangle

Tandragee man celebrates charity’s positive impact with The Range

NI mum becomes the first female principal and CEO of Southern Regional College

Economy Minister Conor Murphy with Liz Toner, head of marketing, First Derivative, Louise O’Hare, head of learning and development, First Derivative and Lee Campbell, interim principal and chief executive, Southern Regional College

Murphy announces third FinTech Foundation Academy with First Derivative
Economy Minister Conor Murphy is encouraging all who are interested and eligible to apply to take advantage of the opportunity
Claire Cartmill

Back Row (L-R) Niamh Finnegan, Jessica Brown, Rebekah Donnell, Niamh Byrne, Josej McGuigan, Don Farrell, Colleen Duffy, Zara Kidd, Beth Johnson, Moyyt Trainor Front Row (L-R) Yasmin Lieu, Emily Patton, Albert Karomo, Leah Omuvwie, Klaris Halliday

Royal College of Nursing cadets celebrate success in Banbridge ceremony

Due to continued growth and recent contract wins, Newry based engineering firm, The Exact Group is hosting a number of open days for operatives, aspiring engineers and technicians at its Craigmore Mill facility on Wednesday, April 12 and Thursday 13

NI engineering firm to host open days following growth and contract wins

Pictured at Karri Kitchen in Craigavon are, from left: Brenda Kelleghan of Southern Regional College; Shera McAloran of Karri Kitchen; Graeme Wilkinson of DfE; and Lee Campbell of Southern Regional College.

Craigavon's Karri Kitchen planning further expansion

26th August 2022
Fire crews pictured at a blaze in a disused building at the rear of Southern Regional College in Lurgan ..

Mandatory Credit Stephen Hamilton/ Presseye

Fire at SRC in Lurgan was 'arson'

Information Commissioner to investigate secrecy over Craigavon Park land sale

Call for Northern Ireland maritime college at campus earmarked for closure

Glyn Roberts, Retail NI and Cheryl McNeill, Northern Regional College

Retail Recovery Programme set to go live

Aislin Trainor, Southern Regional College, Nicola Quinn, South West Regional College, Glyn Roberts, Retail NI, Clare McLaughlin, North West Regional College, Emma Finney, South Eastern Regional College, Rachel Burns, Belfast Met and Cheryl McNeill, Northern Regional College

Colleges support retail recovery across NI

Industry-standard welding training

Economy Minister announces new Assured Skills Academy in welding with Southern R...

Marilyn Warren with Princess Anne.

Marilyn fears COVID-19 backlog may delay Buckingham Palace honours visit

Rural Affairs Minister Edwin Poots MLA with Economy Minister Diane Dodds

Minister boosts training opportunities for rural residents with Prosper
Rural Affairs Minister Edwin Poots has delivered an economic boost for rural residents in the Newry, Mourne & Down and Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Council areas when he launched the £65k Prosper + Project.
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Neil McCauley from McQuillan Envirocare

Colleges continue support for local industry

Pictured are employees at Ferguson’s Irish Linen making face masks in the company’s Banbridge factory

ABC businesses come together to join the fight against coronavirus

Lee McCreary.

Lee’s Minecraft video of Ma Berry’s nightclub goes viral

Artist impression of the proposed Southern Regional College campus at Craigavon

Decision deferred on college

Artists impression of the new Southern Regional College campus in Craigavon

‘No evidence of otters’ at site of £45m college

A tour guide course is to be run in Lurgan

WANTED: Tour guides for Lurgan

Former Rathfriland FC player Max Wilson who died suddenly at home on Sunday

Emotional scenes as NI teenager who was at the heart of his family is laid to re...

Protesters from the campaign group Save Craigavon City Park and Lakes at Craigavon Civic Centre on Monday night

Woman protesting at Southern Regional Campus decision ‘escorted’ from ABC counci...

A view of the proposed new SRC campus.

New £45m Southern Regional College campus in Craigavon gets go-head despite oppo...

UKIP's David Jones.

‘I was told to leave planning meeting’ says councillor opposed to new Southern R...

Raw sewage at Craigavon City Park

Raw sewage bubbles up into City Park

Youths on the roof of the former Lidl building in Lurgan

Police appeal over children's rooftop climbing at school

A computer-generated image of how the new SRC Banbridge Campus will look when complete.

Funding approved: New college development a step closer

Artists impression of the new Southern Regional College campus in Craigavon

Southern Regional College submits plans for new Â£45m Craigavon campus

Hospitality student Lewis Robertson from South Eastern Regional College has been named runner-up in the NI Regional Colleges Hospitality Student of the Year 2017 competition. Lewis who is from Bangor is studying level 3 professional cookery at Bangor campus, specialising in Patisserie and Confectionary

Lewis shines at Hospitality Student of the Year Competition

The college, which will be located at the existing SRC site in Banbridge, is due to open by 2020

Plans for landmark college in Banbridge are approved

Tiernan Green

Lurgan mourns the sudden death of another young man

Declan McAlinden. INLM0811-812con

Council may have '˜conflict of interest in SRC planning application

Jonathan Knight, Matthew Burley, Jemma Downes, Chloe Hall, Rebekah Haffey and Leah Johnston, wait for the start of the inaugral Mountnorris Young Farmers Club Tractor Run, in aid of B.R.A.K.E. Charity and Mountnorris Young Farmers Club. Â© Photo: Gary Gardiner.

Slideshow: Massive support for memorial tractor run for 17-year-olds

Tractor run in memory of tragic 17 year olds

Andrew Boyd from Kilmegan Cider discussing his produce with YFCU President, Roberta Simmons.

YFCU cooking talent heats up the kitchen at Home Management Final

Car crash victims Andrew Gass and Mark Hutcheson

Tragic young farming friends were close in life '“ and will be buried in same gr...

Officers at the scene of a fatal one-vehicle crash which killed two teenage students on the Cladymilltown Road between Markethill and Newtownhamilton in County Armagh

Our whole school '˜deeply saddened' by former pupils' death says Markethill prin...

The scene of Thursday morning's one-vehicle car crash in Co Armagh where two teenage students died. Photo: Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker Press Intl

Teenagers who died in Co Armagh road crash named

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