The Hull-based company has hired 14 apprentices – all of them from the city’s employer-led school, Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC). The new recruits are all aged 18 and are from the first group of students to leave Ron Dearing UTC since the school was founded two years ago to create a new pipeline of talented young people with advanced digital and engineering skills for local...

FreeFlowInfo was developed and refined through six years of school-based action research by Beverley-based Engagement in Education, a diverse team of highly respected and experienced education professionals including former school leaders, the DfE and local authority department leaders. The Bishop Wilkinson Catholic Education Trust has been trialling the new platform, which enables parents to...

Robert Halfon, chairman of the Education Select Committee and Conservative MP for Harlow in Essex, took time out from his Parliamentary roles to visit Hull’s employer-led school. He met principal Sarah Pashley and her senior leadership team, spoke to students, observed engineering, maths and digital media lessons, experienced virtual reality technology and met two former students who have been...

Professor Hardy, a respected figure in both higher education and the legal sector, began his career in academia in 1993, and has since risen through the ranks from PhD student to dean. He said he was looking forward to “engaging with the region” and “helping prepare the next generation of lawyers, politicians, entrepreneurs and public servants”. Professor Hardy said: “Hull has always been a...

More than 45 students who recently completed their A-level exams and technical qualifications at Hull’s employer-led school have secured sought-after training roles setting themselves up for fulfilling and rewarding careers. Having achieved outstanding grades in the first public exams since Ron Dearing UTC opened two years ago, the former Year 13 students have now taken up apprenticeship...