Learning experience

The Programme provided students with the opportunity to travel to St Nazaire on the west coast of France and gain a unique insight into the French way of life through a family living experience.

Students got the opportunity to experience amazing new insights, from learning a new culture, cuisine and language, to making new friends from diverse ethnic and national backgrounds, as well as sampling some of the courses offered by the college.

Particular highlights of the trip included a day-long tour of the world’s leading aircraft manufacturer Airbus. Other highlights included a day-long visit to the shipyard at St Nazaire where many of the world’s biggest and best holiday cruise ships are manufactured.

The visit, organised by SERC as a result of their cultural exchange partnership with Lycee Brossaud-Blancho College, is the first of its kind and aims to provide opportunities for students to develop professional skills and French language proficiency, as well as helping to increase the students understanding and tolerance of other cultures.

The students were given a wonderful opportunity to learn about their hosts’ local cultures and customs, make lifelong friends and will, hopefully, have brought back a wealth of fascinating stories about their stay abroad.

SERC offer a wide range of innovative degree and vocational level programmes which have been designed with industry to meet the needs of the local economy.

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