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Young people from Dudley are to benefit from a package of support to give them access to training and career opportunities, thanks to a new youth hub in the Merry Hill Centre.

The hub at Black Country Skills Shop, which is part of Dudley College of Technology, offers practical advice and support to young people aged 16-29 who are unemployed or at risk of losing their job, or leaving school, college or university.

Mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street visited Dudley College of Technology today to celebrate the region’s success in growing the number of learners on higher level skills courses including engineering, construction retrofitting, and health and social care.

Dudley College of Technology was delighted to host the WorldSkills UK International Summit at its Inspired Campus in Brierley Hill on Wednesday 19th May. The five-hour summit with the theme: Skills for Growth was aimed at educators, employers and government officials, in order to develop a deeper understanding as to how skills can be the key to economic recovery in a “post pandemic future”.

Dudley College of Technology photography lecturer Phil Brooks, has been named as FE lecturer of the Year; in the Pearson National Teaching Awards.

This massive honour is well deserved by Phil, who clinched the award on the basis not only of his excellent classroom teaching but because of the wider contribution he makes to the community by harnessing his own skills and that of his students to work on a broad range of community projects. Projects such as: the production of “Bostin Bites” a fund raising cook book for Dudley’s Mayoral charities, open water swimming across the sixth largest lake in England which raised funds for Mind and is annual support for Remembrance working with the Royal British Legion and Dudley Songsters.

We’re proud to be supporting Tomorrow’s Engineers Week this week. Now in its eighth year, the initiative shines a spotlight on engineers and aims to change perceptions of engineering in order to inspire future engineers.

Dudley College of Technology’s Photography Lecturer Phil Brooks has been honoured with a Silver Award for the FE Lecturer of the Year. Selected from thousands of nominations, Phil is now in the running to win the highly prestigious Pearson National FE Teacher of the Year. This ceremony, entitled ‘Britain’s Classroom Heroes’ will be broadcast on the BBC later in the year.  

Dudley College of Technology is celebrating another successful year of helping hundreds of learners to secure successful grades (grade 9-4 / as was A* -C), in their GCSE resits, with 63.4% of learners achieving top grades in English and 41.5% in mathematics. This is a slightly improved picture on last year as 61.5% of learners achieved equivalent grades in English and 40.4% in mathematics.

Dudley Sixth College students are once more celebrating their A level results, with an overall pass rate of 99.3% and 100% pass rate in 31 of the 34 subjects studied, in what has been a unique year for staff and students alike.

A partnership of colleges in the West Midlands, supported by the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA), has been boosted by a Government fund aimed at keeping more young people in further education and training.

The partners have won £500,000 from the Department for Education’s College Collaboration Fund, which is designed to develop greater collaboration across the sector.

Today Prime Minister Boris Johnson chose Dudley College of Technology to make a major announcement about the government’s investment plans to boost the economy. Pledging to “Build, Build, Build” the Prime Minister vowed the government would tackle the problems created by the “lightning flash” of the pandemic by pumping investment into a huge programme of public works and by pledging £5bn towards developing the infrastructure of the UK. He also committed £12bn on affordable housing in what amounted to an investment prospectus of £600bn over the next five years.