News & Events

Passion flowers into winners

Plumpton College Floristry students have proved that an early morning start is really the best start for a professional career as a florist. The students were judged winners at the New Covent Garden inter-college competition in...

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College Student Winners at South of England Agricultural Society’s Project Competition Awards

Charles Jennings won the South of England Agricultural Societies Top project in Further Education at Level 3 at the Ardingly Autumn Fair last weekend.  Charles is studying Countryside and Environment at the college and is...

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Macmillan cake and coffee morning

Staff at Plumpton College baked a variety of delicious cakes and biscuits to sell for The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning.  The event is Macmillan’s biggest fundraising event for people facing cancer.  People all over the UK are...

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Travis Perkins supports Countryside Management project at Plumpton College

Students from Plumpton College studying on the Countryside Management course have developed a scientific project into the bat species found on the College Estate. 

Students Jade Stone and Beth Hughes used a previous survey, which...

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Great Year for Sailing

We’ve had a great 2014/2015 sailing with nearly every week, being able to get afloat, which certainly showed through with the great standard of sailing shown by all the academy members. We qualified 6 new dinghy instructors who...

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APPOINTMENT OF NEW PRINCIPAL

The Governors of Plumpton College are pleased to announce that they have appointed Jeremy Kerswell as the new Principal at the College. 

He will be replacing Des Lambert OBE, FRAgS, who is retiring after over 40 years at the...

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Edenbridge show

Despite the wet weather the college did well at this year's Edenbridge show.

The College's Centre at Ivyland showed their Berkshire pigs and Border Leicester sheep and did well in both ‘pairs classes’ for pigs and sheep against...

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Matthew Grimstone tribute

The college was saddened with the news that Matthew Grimstone lost his life in the Shoreham air crash tragedy.

Matthew was a former greenkeeping apprentice with the college, completing last year, and had taken several courses...

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NSS results

The recently released National Student Survey (NSS) show that 89% of the completing Higher Education students surveyed at Plumpton College agreed that they are satisfied with the quality of the course.  The average score for...

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Student Award Offers Career Boost to Forestry & Arboriculture Graduates

The country’s top forestry and arboriculture graduates have received an invaluable career boost thanks to a student award from the Institute of Chartered Foresters. The ICF Student Awards were distributed at graduations across the...

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