Brilliant celebration day at @MKCollege 🎉
It’s not the ‘end of the year’ for many of our teams, but it was a great opportunity to celebrate how we live our our values of Respect, Innovate, Excellence, Integrity, Inspire & Belong ♥️
Well done to all the award winners 🥳
We recently signed the Equity, Inclusion and Diversity (EDI) Charter from @AoC_info - we were one of the first FE providers to do so, after we helped to shape the charter's aims and focus.
Find out more here: https://t.co/SRup2gxUK8
#EDI#FairerFutures#MKCollegeGroup
Bisexual Health Awareness Month is a campaign observed throughout March to raise awareness about Bi+ people and the Bi+ community’s social, economic, and health disparities. The campaign aims to advocate for resources, and inspire actions to improve Bi+ people’s well-being.
I’m in the kitchen again!!!
12th March at @ThebrasserieMK…
…sharing the food I love and grew up with… if you’re around Milton Keynes that day… come and say 👋🏽 🫶🏾
#foodmemoirz
I’m sure by now you will have read the headlines about Avanti giving its menopausal staff a ‘menopause gift bag’ that included a fan for hot sweats, a jelly baby sweet “in case you feel like biting someone’s head off”, a tissue “if you’re feeling a bit emotional” and a paperclip “to help you keep it all together”.
Menopause symptoms can be debilitating for some women and it’s not something to trivialise in this way, especially when we know 1 in ten women end up leaving their job due to their menopause symptoms.
If the bag is a delaying tactic, I’m horrified. But if it’s a way of people learning more and hopefully being able to signpost them to the right treatments, then I think that’s good.
Only a minority of menopausal women are receiving HRT which is first line evidence based treatment for the majority of menopausal women. It is therefore so important that we’re not just allowing people flexible time or reducing their hours, or women are simply talking about their symptoms – we’ve got to be more proactive into enabling women to understand what treatments are available, in the same way that we would if they had any other condition that was affecting them in the workplace.
Want to know how we work with employers for T Levels and Apprenticeships? Lauren Wandless from construction company @AsheLtd says that MK College is helping them find their workforce of the future.
https://t.co/0zzYkb8LOB
#NAW2024#Apprenticeships#Apprentices#SkillsForLife
How can we tackle the skills gap and prison overcrowding at the same time? @SallyAlexmkc and Maxine Bennett address this challenging question in a thought-provoking piece for @FENews. You can read the full article here https://t.co/kVInlPpAJs
#PrisonEducation#MKCollegeGroup
The government recently issued guidance about how schools and colleges should behave towards young people who are questioning their gender. While we consider how to respond, we want our students and staff to know that we’re on their side.
Find out more https://t.co/VDxzEAYBnZ