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20th July 2022

New College Durham Joins Growing Group of Colleges Partnering with Career Colleges Trust to Address the Skills and Knowledge Gap in the Construction Industry

New College Durham launches the Career Colleges Trust (CCT) Digital Construction Framework to their further and higher education Construction & Built Environment learners. The new framework builds on New College Durham’s employer-led curriculum in a move to help tackle the regional talent and labour needs of the construction industry. The latest Construction Skills Network report estimates … New College Durham Joins Growing Group of Colleges Partnering with Career Colleges Trust to Address the Skills and Knowledge Gap in the Construction Industry

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7th September 2021

Preparing learners for work: what have we learnt from online schooling?

Teaching and learning online is not a new concept and has been with us for many years. Many FE and HE educational establishments over the years have experimented and implemented various approaches to the blended, online, flipped, and more recently the hybrid model of engaging learners in learning. But what has the pandemic and … Preparing learners for work: what have we learnt from online schooling?

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6th April 2021

Careers is at the heart of what we do

Our Chair and former CEO, Ruth Gilbert, was recently profiled in the TES, where she talked about her career journey and how through her work as Principal at Southwark College she met Lord Baker, and wasn’t afraid to tell him what was wrong with his passion project, University Technical Colleges. She told him that he’d … Careers is at the heart of what we do

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6th April 2021

Employers and educators must work together if we are to ‘build back better’

As we start to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic, thoughts are turning to the re-building of the economy. Many businesses have suffered while other industries have met with growing demand. Logistics is one of those expanding sectors. While the entire population was told to stay at home, transportation of goods to people’s front doors has … Employers and educators must work together if we are to ‘build back better’

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