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Careers College is for 1,300 Year 10 (age 15) students from across Dorset.

Each student completes a programme of workshops providing hands-on experience of occupations they have chosen from a menu of 70 different options.

The journalism workshop produces the Careers College Echo each day.

Careers College is sponsored by Dorset County Council, Weymouth and Portland Borough Council, West Dorset District Council, Poole Council and the Chesil Partnership. It is organised by Weymouth College and offered at Weymouth College and Kingston Maurward College.

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Learning about life

9:40am Saturday 10th July 2010

Today we walked into a classroom full of enthusiastic girls who were all crowded around a rather embarrassed Reece Clarke, 15, from the Wey Valley School.

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Careers College news round-up

10:00am Saturday 10th July 2010

WE interviewed students who showed an interest in radio journalism.

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First class effort

9:50am Saturday 10th July 2010

The teaching workshop gave students visiting the college a chance to take on the role of the teacher and experience it first hand.

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Getting creative with digital media

9:50am Saturday 10th July 2010

We interviewed some pupils taking part in the Creative Digital Media workshop.

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Focus on Heroes

11:03am Friday 9th July 2010

After ten minutes of witnessing the armed services taster session perceptions changed. .

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Taking notes about music

5:50pm Friday 9th July 2010

A group of students from across the county visited Weymouth College yesterday to experience future career prospects.

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Stonemasonry taster session

11:14am Friday 9th July 2010

Students had the opportunity at Weymouth College to have a taster session of what it would be like to be a stonemason and learned the basic skills of stone carving. Alex Grant, aged 15, from All Saints School, filled us in with all the gritty details.

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Psychology session in action

11:12am Friday 9th July 2010

A buzzing psychology group were drawing pigs – much to our surprise!

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Video production

11:10am Friday 9th July 2010

nEver thought of a career in Video Production? A group of 14 to 15-year-olds from Budmouth Technology College participated in a fantastic opportunity, a once- in-a-lifetime workshop at Weymouth College.