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Beauty students have a great future in ‘store’ as they help local business in new BBC Worldwide show Million Dollar Intern

Published: 22 May 2013
Beauty students film with BBC Worldwide

For Level 3 Beauty Therapy students from South Essex College it was a normal morning of manicures and facials at the Queens Road Beauty Academy in Southend, until a film crew from Outline Productions arrived to shoot a new entertainment documentary for the BBC’s overseas channels that is.

Student project is all smiles as seaside classic goes all social media on the pier

Published: 22 May 2013

A Graphic Design student from South Essex College will be asking people visiting Southend Pier to smile and help pitch in with his final major project.  He’ll be asking them strike a pose in his classic rendition of a traditional seaside peep board.

Donning Victorian outfit, Tom Kemp, 20, from Westcliff-on-Sea, and two fellow students, will be situated at the end of Southend Pier on Sunday 26th May from around 12pm taking pictures of people popping their heads through his fun design of a male and female bathing duo.

Five students awarded Jack Petchey Foundation Regional Awards

Published: 15 May 2013
Jack Petchey Award winners

At the beginning of May the Regional Jack Petchey Achievement Award ceremony took place at the Palace Theatre in Southend.

Every year the Jack Petchey Foundation hosts almost 80 Achievement Award Celebrations across London and Essex designed to celebrate and publicly recognise the Jack Petchey Achievement and Leader Award winners.

Family fun day celebrating adult learning worth a pluck

Published: 13 May 2013
Andy Sankey holding a ukulele

Ukulele playing, film, art and face painting all form part of a fun-filled event on Saturday 18th May at South Essex College to celebrate Adult Learners’ Week (18th – 26th May), a national week celebrating adult education and the benefits of lifelong learning.

Taking place at the Southend Campus from 10am – 2pm, the family-friendly event hosted by adult learners is open to anyone looking to upskill, improve their job prospects or simply learn for fun. 

New Town Films bring a new wave of horror to media students

Published: 10 May 2013
New Town Films

As part of Media Industry Week local filmmaking pair Jason Ford and Terry Bird came into College to speak to students about the lows and highs of making British films.

Their latest Essex-based epic is a horror film, Community, that is well and truly about scares in the community and was partly filmed in Basildon.

The ‘gruesome twosome’ were recently interviewed for local magazine Level 4 by Alex Norman and part of that interview has been kindly reproduced with the magazine’s permission below.

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