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Dudgeon Windfarm to invest £2.5 million into local education fund
Dudgeon Offshore Wind Farm is launching an exciting new education initiative for secondary school pupils across Great Yarmouth, North Norfolk and Breckland. Targeted at inspiring pupils to get actively involved with the subjects of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), the program will inject an extra £2.5million additional educational funding for the next 25 years.
The Dudgeon STEM Programme is targeted at encouraging pupils to go on and study STEM subjects in either Sixth Form or Technical College. The ambition is that this will provide a pathway into further education or employment areas which have STEM subjects as a core area. Emil Orderud, the Dudgeon Operations
Manager, based in Great Yarmouth had the following comments: "At Dudgeon we are passionate about inspiring the next generation of scientists, innovators and inventors. We understand that curiosity for science and technology develops at an early age and we want to harness that spark by investing in education within our local communities in Norfolk. "By committing to a yearly investment of £100,000 for the lifetime of the windfarm, we believe that the Dudgeon STEM Programme has the potential to make a real impact on science motivation and competence across the three districts of Great Yarmouth, North Norfolk and Breckland".
Non-fee paying schools and other
organisations delivering government funded national curriculum education are encouraged to make application for funding, as are not for profit companies, voluntary groups and charities accustomed to working with this age group. The fund is also available for programmes dedicated to training those who will go on and teach pupils within the STEM subjects.
www.norfolkfoundation.com/funds/ dudgeon-communityfund
Secondary Director appointed at The White Horse Federation
The White Horse Federation (TWHF) has appointed Helen Glass as Secondary Director, responsible for continued improvement and success across all TWHF secondary schools in Swindon, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
Helen joins with 11 years’ experience in leading secondary schools, with a track record of improving standards and raising attainment. From 2006 until 2010, she was the Headteacher at Gloucester’s Central Technology College, which later merged with another school to become Gloucester Academy and also part of TWHF. In her first 15 months at the school she took it from ‘Notice to Improve’ to being rated as ‘Good’ by Ofsted. Most recently, she led Fortismere School in Muswell Hill, London, to the rating of Outstanding from Good and being recognised as one of the best secondary schools in the
country. With a reputation for its Mandarin teaching, the school was also honoured to host China’s First Lady, Madame Peng Liyuan, during China’s state visit to the UK in 2015. Helen will be working with all secondary TWHF Principals to continue increasing the success of each school and providing students with a first class education.
She said: “I’m looking forward to working with the range of schools that form The White Horse Federation and using my experience to push them forward and continue achieving the best for their pupils.
“I will be working with them to ensure they become the school of choice for their local area, are a central part of the community and are attracting the best teachers to provide the best education.”
www.thewhitehorsefederation.org.uk
Partnership project tackles skills shortages
jobs would need to be filled from 2017 to 2021 to meet rapid growth in demand for infrastructure and housebuilding across the country.
Derby College has teamed up with colleagues at Gateshead College to launch a research project into the skills shortages and limited engagement in Construction degree courses.
The BRIDGE project has been supported by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEGCE) Catalyst Fund and has been prompted by a Construction Skills Network report which has highlighted a growing skills shortage in the industry.
The study said that 179,000 UK construction October 2017
To meet this demand, the industry needed to encourage people from all backgrounds, sexes and ethnicities into higher education and a career in the construction industry – particularly the professions such as Quantity Surveying and Civil Engineering.
Research is being undertaken with current and former students and local employers and planned events include a schools’ open day to highlight the wide range of career opportunities available in the Construction industry.
Derby College Head of Higher Education Robin Webber-Jones explained: “Derby College has an excellent reputation for high quality further and higher education study programmes in Professional Construction.
“We also have long-established links with employers in this industry and are therefore eminently qualified to work alongside our colleagues at Gateshead College to lead on this project.
“Through the BRIDGE project, we will seek to address why construction degree courses are not attracting students from a range of backgrounds. “Currently, there are low numbers of women, people from disadvantaged backgrounds, ethnic minority groups and people with disabilities represented on these degree courses. “We need to find out why that is the case and what we and the wider industry can do to address that.
“The objective is to ensure that employers in this area are able to recruit from more fresh talent to meet the upcoming demand for skilled and professional qualified graduates.”
www.derby-college.ac.uk www.education-today.co.uk 9
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