Business leaders in Milton Keynes are being urged to brave the cold and spend a night sleeping outdoors to help tackle homelessness and hardship in the city. The CEO Sleepout Milton Keynes is taking place on 16th November at Milton Keynes College’s Bletchley campus. Up to 100 participants will be sleeping outside to raise money…
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MK College at MK Can
Staff and students from Milton Keynes College Group came together to support the MK Can event on 16th October at Campbell Park, in support of Milton Keynes Food Bank. Around 100 businesses, 20 schools, 30 churches and faith groups, 50 community organisations and 25 charities from Milton Keynes were all involved with a target of…
National Cyber Awards
Milton Keynes College Group is proud to announce that Rich Lee, one of our students at the South Central Institute of Technology (SCIoT) was nominated at the National Cyber Awards as one of the finalists in the Cyber Student of the Year award. Rich, who studies Cyber Security at the SCIoT, was nominated for his…
International Robotics Competition
Milton Keynes hosted the popular European Smart City Robotics Competition for a second time this September and the Milton Keynes College were proud to be represented by our team from the South Central IOT. The September 2023 ERL competition was the fourth edition of the event and attracted hundreds of participants from across Europe and…
Milton Keynes Pride Festival
On Saturday 9th September, 13 colleagues, learners and their families volunteered at Milton Keynes Pride Festival at Campbell Park to support and celebrate the city’s LGBTQ+ communities. The College Group’s volunteers ran a crafts stall where festival goers could paint rocks and help create a ‘graffiti floor’. The stand also had information about studying and…
Milton Keynes College Group receives Silver Award for Armed Forces Covenant
Milton Keynes College Group has been awarded the Armed Forces Covenant Silver Award. On the 6th of September, Ben Burton from the College Group’s Recruitment Resourcing team attended a ceremony at the Admiralty House in the Historic Dockyards of Portsmouth, in recognition of the Group’s work and to receive the Silver Award in person. The…
MK College students work with internationally renowned graffiti artist on ‘Difference Maker’ mural
A group of Art & Design students from Milton Keynes College recently worked with a globally recognised graffiti artist to create a mural to brighten up a walkway in Bletchley. Mr Meana – a graffiti artist who has been commissioned to create street art pieces all over the world – spent a full day with…
TeenTech Festival is first event at the new South Central Institute of Technology building
On Tuesday 4th July 2023, 120 students from nine local schools took part in the TeenTech Milton Keynes Festival at the newly opened South Central Institute of Technology (SCIoT) building in Bletchley. This festival brought together local and national companies with young people to engage in hands-on activities aimed at opening their eyes to the…
MK College’s Horticulture Centre celebrates ten years of supporting students with additional needs
Milton Keynes College’s Horticulture Centre is celebrating ten years of teaching work skills around the care of plants, trees and animals for inclusive learners. Over that decade, dozens of young people have been taught the key techniques needed to give them the knowledge to land jobs in the sector, and to gain City & Guilds…
South Central Institute of Technology’s new headquarters open for business
Our South Central Institute of Technology (SCIoT) in Bletchley has opened its doors for the first time, showing off the beautiful, inclusive architecture and design of the building, which houses the latest in hi-tech digital equipment. We invited anc audience to come and get first-hand experience of the state-of-the-art AI, VR and AR technologies available…
