Aspiring apprentices wanting to find out more about rewarding careers across a range of industries and sectors – have the chance to do so with BMet. The student and employer focused college will be holding a special virtual event on Thursday 30 April. The event is now closed but we will look to host another event […]
Caring staff and students at BMet are coming together to support the community by fundraising for local foodbanks. The college has joined the national #FEFoodbankFriday campaign, which is seeing FE organisations around the country coming together to raise money for community foodbanks. Many foodbanks are seeing a sharp decline in donations at this challenging time of the […]
Ambition over adversity was the central message from Sutton Coldfield College at a forward-thinking education webinar. The virtual event held, on Wednesday 22 April, by the Chamber of Commerce was an opportunity for BMet alongside local schools in Sutton Coldfield to reassure parents and local businesses that the education sector is working hard to support […]
BMet students and staff are benefiting from a unique interactive online learning experience thanks to the expertise of the college’s learning technologies team. Learning and Technology Manager Pooja Pun and her team of learning technology coaches, are training and supporting numerous employees remotely across the college on Microsoft Teams platforms – to ensure the college […]
A Learning Technologies Manager from BMet is in high spirits after being selected to share her digital expertise at Microsoft’s Education Exchange, E² – an annual event taking place in Sydney, Australia this year. Pooja works across the three BMet colleges – James Watt College, Matthew Boulton College and Sutton Coldfield College. Pooja, is one […]
A Cleaning and Environmental Services apprentice from James Watt College, part of BMet, has been officially recognised for his top-class cleaning prowess and dedication. 20-year-old Liam Emanuel was honoured with a certificate to celebrate his achievements on March 2 at the City and Guilds London Institute Livery Company Awards. The event was held at Mansion […]
A Level 3 higher education student has been crowned as Apprentice of the Year at a highly respected national industry-standard food awards ceremony. Stephanie Williams, who is studying a Level 3 Multi-skilled maintenance engineering apprenticeship in food and drink at BMet, won Food Manufacture Apprentice of the Year at the Food Manufacture Excellence Awards. The […]
Over a thousand jobseekers across Birmingham were enlightened to a broad range of job and training opportunities at a busy job fair held at our Matthew Boulton College this month. The event put on by Birmingham and Solihull Job Centre Plus, was organised by 13 offices across the Birmingham and Solihull district, in conjunction with […]
Graduates from a range of higher level courses at BMet College were officially rewarded for their academic accomplishments at a special ceremony last week (18 December). The prestigious annual event, took place at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. BMet welcomed over 200 former students, to the celebration, who received their awards alongside their family and friends. […]
BMet’s Chief Financial Officer has been officially recognised as having the highest level of financial prowess and expertise in the region after winning a highly sought-after industry award. Martin Penny beat off stiff competition to obtain the Finance Director of the Year award (not-for-profit) at the annual 2019 “West Midlands Finance Awards”, after impressing a […]