South Shields MP Emma Lewell-Buck has given her local constituency college a big vote of confidence after seeing its highly rated facilities at first hand.
She did so after touring South Tyneside College as part of an annual national education initiative – and to learn more about its ambitions for the future.
South Tyneside College/South Shields Marine School has taken a major step towards relocating after getting the green light to build a multi-million-pound campus in the heart of South Shields.
In a boost to ongoing town centre redevelopment, we have secured £20m of government funding to build new premises around a mile from our current site at Westoe.
Trainee mariners and their teaching team from South Shields Marine School are celebrating netting hundreds of pounds by playing a charity football match.
The marine school’s newly-founded Winterbottom Wanderers, made up of maritime cadets, took on lecturers and other staff.
A student football team is looking to raise funds in a charity football bout against their lecturers.
South Shields Marine School has played a key part in turning the tide against poor safety at sea which experts say is causing needless fishermen deaths.
Its specialist maritime survival centre has hosted three days of new-style instruction to emphasize to trawlermen the danger of setting sail without a life jacket.
Britain’s bustling ports are enhancing their talent pool through new-style training being fashioned uniquely at South Shields Marine School.
They are sending their apprentices to us to learn skills essential to their development as future key workers within the transportation sector.
Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal has visited South Shields Marine School to see our world-famous and award-winning maritime training centre in operation.
The Princess toured our state-of-the-art facilities on Tuesday, February 8, and met with senior staff and cadets.
South Tyneside College’s support for a young people’s education initiative in Zimbabwe has taken a novel turn.
In 2014, through our Dr Winterbottom Charitable Fund, we donated around 10,000 books to the Youth Contact Centre music and creative arts collective in the town of Bulawayo.
Overseas cadets studying at world-renowned South Shields Marine School are making waves by netting new roles alongside their studies.
They have thrown themselves in at the deep end to support high-flying South Shields Football Club - by volunteering as match day stewards.
Players at the North East’s top rugby league club faced four seasons in one day when they undertook a unique team bonding challenge – with the support of Tyne Coast College (TCC).
Newcastle Thunder’s first team squad took the plunge into a state-of-the-art environmental pool at TCC’s Marine and Offshore Safety Training Centre (MOST) in South Shields.