News & Updates

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!

It’s a time for celebration for Laura Maddison and her family. After originally beginning work at the age of 16 as a dental nurse, Laura, from Grangetown in Sunderland, went through several years of hard work and study and has just graduated as a qualified dentist from Newcastle University.

We're really thrilled to announce that Samantha Prince, who studies at our Peter Jones Enterprise Academy, is one of the finalists of this year's National Entrepreneur of the Year competition!

Students in the North East will have a clear route to technical employment with the launch of the region’s new Institute of Technology.  Following the successful bid in 2019, the licence to operate as the North East Institute of Technology has now been awarded by the Department for Education.  

East Durham College has reaffirmed their commitment to staff and students by signing up to a brand new national mental health and wellbeing charter - created by the Association of Colleges in conjunction with mental health experts.

Massive congrats are in order for three of our Level 3 barbering students as they aced a National Barbering competition!