Compulsory work experience should be put back on the school curriculum say 14-19 year olds. In a survey of over 1000 teenagers carried out by the Career Colleges Trust, the overwhelming majority – 83% – think that work experience should be compulsory on their school / college curriculum, suggesting the Government was wrong to remove […]
IT students, Ilias Dirie and Shamas Iqbal helped to make an online job day running across Europe a great success after taking on roles as support technicians. The European Online Job Day was hosted from Matthew Boulton College and organised by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and job mobility portal, Eures. It invited […]
An electronics student at Matthew Boulton College has set out his next steps after getting a place on an apprenticeship scheme with Rolls Royce. Joel Lewis Grey will begin a degree-led engineering apprenticeship at the company’s Derby plant in September. “I had it in mind to look for work experience or an apprenticeship after I’d […]
An Apprentice Carpenter from Dudley has been awarded Apprentice of the Year by local housebuilder Barratt Homes West Midlands. Ashley James, from Upper Gornal in the West Midlands, won a £250 bonus from the developer as he saw off competition from the firm’s dozens of Apprentices with his exemplary work ethic and ability. Ashley, 22, […]
The 4th Sutton Coldfield East Scouts are set to be basketball superstars after completing training sessions at Sutton Coldfield College. Scouts aged between 10 and 13 received coaching from the college’s men’s and women’s team players. The scouts’ efforts will contribute to their Scouts Association Skills Challenge Award which encourages them to regularly take part […]
Stourbridge College have launched their new built environment facility by establishing a partnership with leading national architectural practice Corstorphine + Wright. Over the last two years, Corstorphine + Wright have provided the college’s 60 construction students with industry related lectures and work placements and in fact three of the college’s students have been recruited by […]
The Academy launch tied in with the Year of Engineering; a 2018 campaign to tackle the engineering skills gap and widen the pool of young people who join the profession. There is currently an annual shortfall of 69,000 rail engineers. 14,000 digital technology jobs are also set to be created in the West Midlands over […]
Port Vale FC goalkeeper, Sam Hornby has been presented with a BMet Alumni Award. The former Sutton Coldfield College student received the honour in recognition of his academic achievements and career success. “I feel privileged to have been presented with this award,” commented Sam. “Like many people, I came to college expecting to come away […]
A British Army communications drill that was assigned to uniformed services students at Sutton Coldfield College all went smoothly. As part of an army careers session, the 37 Signals Unit carried out the exercise with Level 2, 3 and HND students. They were presented with a disaster situation, put into teams and allocated an area […]
BMet has been recognised for its outstanding careers work. The college has been awarded the Quality in Careers Standard awarded under licence by Prospects. The Quality in Careers Standard is awarded to education providers who can demonstrate the importance they place on careers and how they support students to make decisions about their life after […]