Annual Report 2012 - Highbury College

January
Highbury launches its
Peter Jones Enterprise
Academy for students
wanting to achieve
qualifications in enterprise
and entrepreneurship and
develop their own ideas
into successful businesses.
Minister of State for
Education in Nigeria, Chief
Ezenwo Nyesom Wike,
visits Highbury to see how
we train young people in
vocational skills.
February
In the lead up to National
Libraries Day, ex-Portsmouth
FC defender Linvoy Primus
talks to students about his
career, charity work and the
importance of literacy in
achieving your goals.
Students from Highbury and
Tiltan College in Haifa, Israel,
collaborate on an art project
marking the 50th anniversary
of the partnership between
the cities of Portsmouth and
Haifa.
Highbury welcomes industry
experts and local business
leaders to the launch of its
Hub of the National Skills
Academy for Environmental
Technologies, which is opened
by the Lord Mayor of
Portsmouth Cheryl Buggy.
March
Nigerian film star Joke
Silva visits Highbury as
part of a fact-finding
mission to help her open a
school of theatre, film and
media in her own country.
Students join aspiring
business leaders and top
entrepreneurs from
around the world at the
Global Entrepreneurship
Congress in Liverpool. Sir
Richard Branson is the key
note speaker at the event,
which aims to ‘unleash the
will to win’.
Highbury’s Principal signs
a partnership agreement
with Noble E Pepple,
Executive Director & CEO
of the Rivers State
Sustainable Development
Agency (RSSDA) to support
a new vocational
education centre for
young people in Nigeria.
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