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Business students impress at SEMICC’s Business Skills Competition
Read More: Business students impress at SEMICC’s Business Skills CompetitionOn Tuesday 4th March, a team of four Level 3 Business students from Milton Keynes College participated in the South East Midlands Inter College Competition’s (SEMICC) Business Skills Competition, hosted at Aylesbury College. Accompanied by Dan Purdy, the Deputy Head of School for Digital and Business, and Jade Timpany, a Progress Mentor for Digital and…
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MK College celebrates apprenticeship success at Graduation event
Read More: MK College celebrates apprenticeship success at Graduation eventMilton Keynes College Group celebrated its apprentices completing their courses, with a graduation event on Thursday 27th February at the Ridgeway Centre in Milton Keynes. The event saw 40 apprentices covering a wide range of courses including Digital, Business, Finance and Construction collect their course certificates, supported by friends, family and their employers. The event…
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MK College students support prestigious dinner with High Sheriff at Bletchley Park
Read More: MK College students support prestigious dinner with High Sheriff at Bletchley ParkOn Thursday 13th February, Milton Keynes College staff and students joined the High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire’s Justice Dinner. Hosted in the Mansion Ball Room at Bletchley Park, the guests were welcomed to the event by Iain Standen, the CEO of Bletchley Park Trust. The dinner was attended by around 50 guests from several local organisations,…
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MK College prison educators star in national recruitment campaign
Read More: MK College prison educators star in national recruitment campaignTeachers at HMP Fosse Way and HMP Aylesbury – two of the 30 prisons that MK College Group provides education services for – have worked with His Majesty’s Prisons and Probation Service (HMPPS) and the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) on a campaign to support prison teaching recruitment. The campaign, which officially launched on 16th January,…
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Milton Keynes College students design artwork for Thames Valley Police’s campaign to tackle antisocial behaviour
Read More: Milton Keynes College students design artwork for Thames Valley Police’s campaign to tackle antisocial behaviourThames Valley Police (TVP) has launched a campaign to empower witnesses and victims of antisocial behaviour (ASB) to speak out and report incidents, featuring artwork designed by a student at Milton Keynes College. Towards the end of last year, TVP visited graphic design students from Milton Keynes College to talk to them about ASB and…
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MK College: apprenticeships are good for business
Read More: MK College: apprenticeships are good for businessTo mark National Apprenticeship Week, MK College Group are showcasing the business benefits of taking on an apprentice. Companies who want to hire more people but feel priced out of the market by the increase in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) should think about taking on an apprentice and moulding a new staff member for the…
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Skills Academy students at Action 4 Youth’s Big Challenge
Read More: Skills Academy students at Action 4 Youth’s Big ChallengeOn 29th of January, six Skills Academy students from MK College took part in youth charity Action 4 Youth’s The Big Challenge at the Stoke Mandeville Stadium in Aylesbury. The Big Challenge is run by Action 4 Youth, a Buckinghamshire youth charity focused on providing educational and extracurricular activities to young people in the region.…
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Milton Keynes College to receive £6.1m from City Council for college expansion
Read More: Milton Keynes College to receive £6.1m from City Council for college expansionMilton Keynes City Council has approved a significant investment of £6.1m for Milton Keynes College to accommodate a growing student population. The funding will enable the College to increase capacity at both the Chaffron Way and Bletchley campuses. Initial proposals include the addition of 300 new teaching spaces, improved motor vehicle workshops, upgrading IT rooms…
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MK College Group launches plan for a more sustainable future
Read More: MK College Group launches plan for a more sustainable futureThis month, Milton Keynes College Group launched its Climate Action Plan (CAP) for 2024-2030, delivered by our Sustainability Lead Lauren Gallyot in collaboration with colleagues and learners across the College Group. The CAP is a roadmap for driving positive environmental change across the College Group in the face of the climate emergency. It responds to…
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Regional colleges work collaboratively to respond to local skills needs
Read More: Regional colleges work collaboratively to respond to local skills needsA group of colleges in the South East Midlands have come together in a successful campaign aimed at further developing their work on meeting local skills needs. More than £5,000,000 was awarded to the group, known as the Colleges of the South-East Midlands (CoSEM), via the Department for Education’s Local Skills Improvement Fund (LSIF) with…
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