Sheffield College has notched up 100 per cent success in the Newspaper Journalism prelim exams.

All 24 students on the NCTJ Fast Track pre-entry course sailed through the demanding 90-minute paper. And that's the best performance of any college or university since Jim Brennan started the first NCTJ course at Harlow in 1952.

NCTJ journalism marker Bill Wood said: "I've never encountered such consistently first class papers from such a large number of students. It was a pleasure to mark them."

Mandy Ball, head of Journalism at the college's Norton Centre, said: "The exam is not easy, and the result reflects a great deal of credit on all those concerned.

"I'm absolutely delighted. It is a testament to an excellent group of students and the hard-working teaching team behind them."

The college, handling NCTJ courses for 35 years, annually trains more than 100 journalism students and 30-plus press photojournalism students.

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