We want to give you an opportunity to take a peek into your future at our careers open event taking place at James Watt, Matthew Boulton and Stourbridge Colleges on Wednesday 3rd April. A range of speakers are set to talk about their experiences across a range of careers that are sure to inspire you. […]

To mark the 12th National Apprenticeship Week, one of our employers invited us into the workplace to interview some of our apprentices to see how they are getting on, what inspired them to apply for one and any advice they have for budding apprentices.   adi founder and CEO Alan Lusty created a pre-apprenticeship work experience programme […]

BMet will be waxing lyrical about the benefits of apprenticeships to mark the 12th National Apprenticeship Week (Monday 04 March to Friday 08th March).  In the spirit of the theme of the week, the college plans to blaze a trail, encouraging people of all ages and backgrounds to take up an apprenticeship. A jam packed […]

Three years on from his apprenticeship with BMet’s sales team, Joel is now an employer contact centre officer at the college. Here he shares some of his experiences to date and gives advice to employers on why they should bring apprentices into their businesses. First contact If a company phones or emails the college to […]

Not only have a group of Queensbury school students developed new life skills, they’ve also been inspired to think creatively about their local environment. The 17-19 year-olds took part in Birmingham City Council’s Brum Goes Green poster competition with a number of students across the college.  And it was an eye-catching design from one of […]

A donation of cars and car parts is helping students at Stourbridge College steer their careers in the right direction. Hyundai UK has supplied motor vehicle students with cars, engines and gearboxes worth over £50,000 to support their training. Mark Lucas, Product Quality and Campaign Engineer at Hyundai said: “As a former college student, I […]

Annalise is an electrical installation apprentice with Noble Electrical in Birmingham.  With another apprentice and a supervisor, she provides light installations and rewiring services for homes and some factories.  She spends one day each week in college studying a Level 3 electrical installation course.  I got switched on “A few weeks into my college course, […]

When it came to apprenticeships, Mia Gartland thought hair and beauty were her only options.  It wasn’t until she looked more closely into them did she realise she could turn her love of science into dental nursing apprenticeship. Uniform Inspiration I always liked the dental nurses in the surgery that I went to for treatment […]

Apprentice, Ricardo is part of BMet’s apprenticeship recruitment team.  His main role is to manage incoming apprenticeship vacancies, making sure they are advertised on the National Apprenticeships website as well as uploaded to BMet’s website.  Hundreds of CVs come through to the apprenticeship recruitment team every month.  How do you stand out?  Here’s Ricardo’s job […]

Daniel Millington is a true trailblazer at Hydraforce Hydraulics Ltd. He’s a won a National Apprenticeship Award for Rolls Royce Advanced Apprentice of the Year, the British Education Award for England’s Vocational Student of 2019 and been a runner-up award for EEF (Engineering Employer’s Federation) Apprentice of the Year for the Midlands.  “My apprenticeship and […]