Hit West End Musical Comes To Sunderland

Hit West End Musical Comes To Sudnerland

Dirty Dancing, the smash hit West End musical is continuing its success in extending its national tour and is heading to Sunderland. The musical broke all box office records when it first opened in 2006 and is now the fastest selling show in West End history.

Since its announcement in November 2010, demand for tickets for this classic story has been extremely high with takings in excess of £10 million and many of the dates are completely sold out.

The producers of Dirty Dancing, said: “We are delighted to announce the next seven cities of the national tour. We have been overwhelmed by the success of the production to date and hope this amazing response will continue as the tour extends through to the end of 2012. It has been wonderful to see audiences across the country embracing the show with the same passion and support that we have been fortunate enough to receive in the West End over the past five years. As Dirty Dancing enters an exciting new stage in its UK journey, it shows no signs of slowing down.”

The success of the London show has led to overwhelming demand from fans to experience the magical love story that is Dirty Dancing in their home cities, and the producers are therefore delighted to be taking the show across the UK.

The show will be at The Sunderland Empire from Tuesday 18th September - Saturday 6th October 2012 so head to The Sunderland Empire website to book tickets today to avoid disappointment.

http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/sunderland-empire/

Student Posters

Our courses are assessed in a variety of ways, and biology is no exception. Recently our talented Life Sciences students did poster presentations as part of their module assessement. A very high standard was seen throughout; here is a small selection of the great work they produced. Well done everyone!

Life Sciences at Sunderland FoC

One of the pathways we offer here at Sunderland FoundationCampus is Life Sciences. After passing the course they then have guaranteed progression onto a range of top quality degree programs at Sunderland University, including the very highly-rated MPharm course.
Here are some of Sunderland FoundationCampus' current life science students making good use of the laboratory facilities during their chemistry practicals.

Students that pass our Life Sciences foundation course may also choose to study other degree courses offered at Sunderland University, such as Drug Discovery and Development, or Sports Science.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Sunderland's Stadium of Light isn't just home to a Premier League football team, it also hosts music concerts by world-famous musicians.

To celebrate the fact that American rock-gods Red Hot Chili Peppers are playing at the Stadium of Light in June, Sunderland University's very own radio station, Spark FM, are hosting a competition to win a pair of tickets to the concert. Click here to see what happened when the brave people at Spark FM decided to make friends with some red hot chilli peppers of their own...

In the meantime, here's a taster of what can be expected on 24th June.

You can enter the competition here, but be quick!

Attendance matters!

A huge well done and thank you to all of the students who maintained a 100% attendance record over the last term here at Sunderland FoundationCampus!

Those students have been rewarded with a box of chocolates. Good job guys!

Sunderland FoC Student profile

Meet Gong, a current student here at Sunderland FoundationCampus.

Which programme are you studying at Sunderland FoundationCampus, and which degree do you want to progress onto?

I am studying the Undergraduate Foundation Programme in Business. I will study for a business degree at university.

How are you finding your programme at FoundationCampus?

I am really enjoying studying.  I think the programme is really helping me; it is very interesting and I am learning lots of things – not just about business. 

Has your English improved? Which areas in particular?
My English has definitely improved – I speak English every day with my friends and it is very important to improve.  The teachers have taught me a lot about how to write an essay and I have improved a lot.

Where do you live?
I am living in the Precinct (university accomodation) and I really enjoy it. My flatmates are very kind and friendly. There are a lot of students from different countries.

Have you met any university students yet?
Some of my flatmates study at the business school which is very useful for me; I can ask questions about the business school. There is also a lady who is a student rep living in our block and she is very kind and helps me a lot. Every week we play basketball with other Chinese students at the university.

If you had to summarise FoundationCampus in one sentence, what would it be?

It is very interesting and useful, and helps you to learn the basics before you go onto the business school.

What are you waiting for? You can find more information about us here, or contact our team at sunderland@foundationcampus.com

Easter bank holiday weekend

Enjoy the 4-day weekend everyone!

Don't forget - new term starts on Tuesday 10th April!