Carmel College, A Catholic Academy, Darlington is an 11-18 specialist school recently rated as Outstanding in all areas by Ofsted with an excellent success rate at both GCSE and A level. The College specialises in technology and vocational education and has recently undergone a £10.5m rebuilding programme to provide state-of-the-art learning facilities.
Carmel College is ideally situated in the West End of Darlington, just five minutes drive from the A1 and 10 minutes drive from Darlington station and the East Coast Mainline. Durham Tees Valley Airport is also only a 15-minute drive away.
In addition to its educational role Carmel also provides the following services to businesses:
These include:
The John Caden Hall - A magnificent purpose built hall which can seat from 30 to 400 people, with a comprehensive range of audio visual equipment. This makes an ideal venue for any event from conferences, exhibitions and lectures to dance productions and charity fundraisers. The John Caden Hall has a full range of layout options and can be divided into two smaller spaces if required.
Conference and Community Rooms – modern meeting rooms seating up to 24 delegates. Both rooms have an interactive whiteboard, projector, screen and sound available if required for presentations.
Training Room – a meeting room with 10 computer stations and internet access along with boardroom style conference facility for up to 10 delegates. This is an ideal room for meetings involving IT training.
Hospitality - Carmel offers an extensive selection of hot and cold menus to choose from to suit any event.
As a Cisco Networking Academy our training includes:
Computer networking for small businesses,
Wireless technology and security,
Basic cabling,
LAN/WAN technology,
IP addressing,
Network design,
Routing and switching,
Java,
PC hardware and software plus others.
All the training can be tailored to the needs of the individual business.
We also offer training in Microsoft Office applications such as using spreadsheets in Excel, making use of the different functions in Outlook, putting together a PowerPoint presentation and setting up your own Access database.
As a training school Carmel has a proven track record in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and offers businesses staff development and training for employees in the following:
Basic skills - English, mathematics and ICT at entry level, level 1 and level 2
Photography
Team building activities in our TV recording studio
Media Production and Recording
From the initial concept to the final product we will work with you to ensure the delivery of a quality product, on time and to budget. We offer businesses a range of services from small educational films to large scale, live corporate events. We can plan, film, edit and deliver your project on a wide range of media, using industry standard equipment.Media Design
Posters, booklets, leaflets, promotional material, corporate image, CD-ROMs, DVDs and websites; our design team can produce a range of quality products to suit your business and budget.Sound Recording
Our outdoor MUGA is ideal for corporate 5-a-side competitions or leagues.