Surfing course at Bournemouth & Poole college

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Surfing - as easy as ABC !

More than 30 students have enrolled on a new course on surfing - and we don't mean the internet but the watery kind.

Bournemouth & Poole College has set up two new sports academies and pupils are preparing to hit the waves at Bournemouth beach for the first time in early September.

The college came in for some criticism from those who thought it would be any easy ride when it first announced the setting up of The Surf Academy and The Watersports Academy. Now 32 students have been offered places and college principal Lawrence Vincent defended the courses, espectially with the 2012 Olympics not that far off.

He said: "As far as I am concerned, the students will work towards bona fide qualifications and will learn transferable skills to help them with their future careers. Being located in one of the most beautiful parts of the country, it seems appropriate to be maximising the resources and job opportunities in the tourism and leisure industry.

Not only that, but Dorset is an up and coming location for all watersports., especially Boscombe with the new surf reef."