Northern Gas Networks and HEY Children’s University take partnership on the road with new reading van

Hull and East Yorkshire (HEY) Children’s University and Northern Gas Networks have teamed up on a new project that aims to inspire a love of reading for children living in the care system. HEY Children’s University is a charity that aims to raise the aspirations, self-esteem and resilience of disadvantaged children. The charity works with more than 7,000 children a year, providing them with...

Government grant gives green light to Ron Dearing UTC expansion

Hull’s employer-led school, Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC), has received approval and funding for major expansion plans. Ron Dearing UTC has been awarded a grant of just over £3.7 million to increase its capacity by reconfiguring space in the school’s existing building and creating a hi-tech new Centre for Sustainability in Hull’s former Central Fire Station, next to the school. ...

Students equipped with cutting-edge robotics skills to increase career opportunities

Student engineers of the future are learning crucial robotics skills to give them the edge for exciting career opportunities and fill an increasing national industry skills gap. Year 12 and 13 students at Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC) in Hull are working with a state-of-the-art FANUC robot training cell as part of their automation and control engineering course, understanding...

£200m Yorkshire Energy Park announces University of Lincoln as principal education partner

The University of Lincoln has been announced as the principal education partner of the £200m Yorkshire Energy Park. The university, an award-winning institution with an international reputation for its quality of teaching and research, will establish a campus on the former Hedon aerodrome site and aim to upskill and reskill those based in the park, retaining and bolstering talent and skills in...

HETA plans further expansion after record recruitment of young engineers

A training business that has been supplying engineering apprentices to industry for more than 50 years has broken all records with its 2021 intake. Humberside Engineering Training Association (HETA) is now planning a significant investment programme as it faces rising demand from employers across the north for qualified young people and for tuition to upskill the existing workforce. The company...