Stamford College joins the Lincolnshire Institute of Technology

Saturday, 21 December 2024 11:02

A new technology partnership with other colleges will share best practice and help better qualify employees to degree level as Stamford College joins the Lincolnshire Institute of Technology.

Director of the Institute, Mick Loughran, says it will benefit the whole workforce and strengthen Lincolnshire's offering too.

"We all know that the skills needs in Lincolnshire are different to those in London or the southwest. So we're really looking at the whole picture in Lincolnshire, and what does it need now. And more important, what's it going to need in the future? And Stamford are inputting into that and are already changing their curriculum and moving the curriculum around, bringing in things like higher technical qualifications, which are level four and five qualifications with more skills elements to them, so it's not just classroom, there's a lot more actually doing in there, so they can go straight into employment.

We're also doing some great work around what we call micro-credentials, which is building up bite sized chunks of learning at level four and five, so people who are employed or people who just want to have a taste can come in and do one module and then they may build that up and do different modules to a full qualification or they might just stop at one module. So there's a lot going on and we're working together on developing that."