Stoke & Staffordshire Institute of Technology

The Institute of Technology (IoT), will bring together industry, education and research to jointly design and develop education and training opportunities.

[Stoke & Staffordshire Institute of Technology @sotsiot]

Great to welcome Sir Gavin Williamson, MP, to see the fantastic progress on our Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire Institute of Technology! 🚀

He toured with Principal Craig Hodgson & saw first-hand the future of technical education in our region.

[Stafford College @NSCGStafford]

Today we hosted the @WeareStaffs Ambassador Event, themed ‘𝘼 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙎𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙇𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜’🎓✨

The event brought together businesses, educators and public sector leaders to discuss the future of the county’s workforce. Visitors heard from NSCG Principal Craig Hodgson and Vice Principal - Institute of Technology & Higher Education Georgina Barnard on the role of education in addressing skills needs, along with the latest developments from the @sotsiot. We also welcomed back NSCG alumnus Shar Owusu, now Chair of the We Are Staffordshire Young Ambassador programme.

𝘼 𝙝𝙪𝙜𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 to We Are Staffordshire for organising such a brilliant event, to everyone involved today and to Georgina Barnard and T Level student Karol Symula, who represented NSCG on the Q&A panel 👏

[Stoke & Staffordshire Institute of Technology @sotsiot]

We’re delighted @sotsiot Director, @MarkOrmerod4 has been awarded an OBE in the New Years Honours list for services to education & sustainability. An inspiring leader, Mark brings a wealth of experience to our Board & we send huge congratulations on his amazing achievement 👏🏻🎉

[Keele University 🐿️ @KeeleUniversity]

Congratulations to Professor Mark Ormerod, who has been awarded an OBE in the 2025 New Year Honours list for services to education and to sustainability.

Read more 🔽 https://t.co/1JJo6Vrsop

[Daily Focus - Staffordshire Business News @DailyFocusUK]

The @sotsiot has hit a construction milestone with the building reaching its highest point 🙌🏽
https://t.co/2drBTKEbXQ

[Stoke & Staffordshire Institute of Technology @sotsiot]

𝙄𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 to see the Year 1 HNC Engineering students from our first @sotsiot cohort this week receiving their official lanyards, formally welcoming them to the SoTSIoT family.

[Converge Technology Solutions UK @ConvergeTechUK]

🎓We welcomed HNC/D Computing Students from Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Institute of Technology to our #Cybersecurity Summit!🛡️

They learned from @microsoft, @AWNetworks, @HitachiVantara & @dansodergren.

Read more! https://t.co/jEAfWT2dMx

@fenews @sotsiot @NSCGNewcastle

[Daily Focus - Staffordshire Business News @DailyFocusUK]

More details have been unveiled regarding the state-of-the-art facilities that will be available to students at a new £22.5 million centre for high-level education and training.

🗞️ https://t.co/3X0hvUvzVr

[Stafford BC @Staffordbc]

New £22m technology centre in #Stafford is being backed by a £1m grant from @Staffordbc
Work got underway earlier this year on the Institute of Technology
@NSCGStafford are the lead institution with collaboration from public & private sector partners.
More https://t.co/HHwZBN5P2x

[Stoke & Staffordshire Institute of Technology @sotsiot]

Our developer Speller Metcalfe continue to make excellent progress, the concrete floors are going in and our @NSCGStafford Level 3 Photography students had the honour of taking the first steps inside the @sotsiot - 𝙖 𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙢𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙣𝙚. 👣🚧

[Stoke & Staffordshire Institute of Technology @sotsiot]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐤𝐲'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐭! Incredible drone footage from Level 3 Photography student Isla McFadzean who has really captured the incredible progress made as the steel structure of the @sotsiot. 📸🏗️

[Stoke & Staffordshire Institute of Technology @sotsiot]

Massive 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪 to Dave Thomas and Huw Owens from Siemens who have donated three collaborative robots to the @sotiot. 🤖 Donations such as these will allow our learners to learn with cutting edge, industry standard tech. 🤝

[Stoke & Staffordshire Institute of Technology @sotsiot]

@ClaireF19315970 @mpftnhs @MpftWorkforce Thanks so much for coming along Claire, and for your valuable input on the day 😊

[Stoke & Staffordshire Institute of Technology @sotsiot]

We LOVED hosting our first employer event at @NSCGStafford, where we shared our ambitious plans & got key stakeholders involved in shaping our curriculum. Thanks to our guest speakers & extra-special thanks to delegates for contributing so enthusiastically in workshop sessions🤝

[Newcastle College @NSCGNewcastle]

What an 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 day!🤩

It's been a fantastic welcoming @nscgnewcastle and @NSCGStafford students, employers and universities from all over the UK to our #NSCGNextSteps Fayre. 🎓👩‍🏫🎉

Both employers and universities were on hand to assist students with advice, informative talks in a wide-range of subject areas - including our soon to launch @sotsiot, alongside a vast range of work placement, apprenticeship and degree-level opportunities.

A massive thanks to all who attended and supported the event! 😄👍

[Stoke & Staffordshire Institute of Technology @sotsiot]

Brilliant to have employers with such valuable insight from the health sector joining us on our journey & helping to shape our health and life sciences curriculum. Thank you Claire, partnership working at its best 🙌🏻
#InstitutesOfTechnology #collaboration #Partnerships

[Claire French @ClaireF19315970]

Fantastic event last week, discussing how education and employer partners work together to enable students into our workforce. I'm excited to see the development of the IOT @NSCGNewcastle in the near future. #partnerships #workforce

[We Are Staffordshire @WeareStaffs]

👷‍♀️A traditional ground breaking ceremony has taken place to mark the first official day of construction on the brand new Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Institute of Technology.

Read more about this fantastic new facility https://t.co/cYVCQVgorZ

[Daily Focus - Staffordshire Business News @DailyFocusUK]

A significant milestone in the development of Stafford's Institute of Technology has been marked.

Read more: https://t.co/QgKWtOdK4x

[Speller Metcalfe @SpellerMetcalfe]

On Friday Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Institute of Technology celebrated an exciting construction milestone! 🙌
@NSCGStafford @educationgovuk
https://t.co/pgOy0wuJx5

[Sir Gavin Williamson CBE MP @GavinWilliamson]

It was wonderful to be able to attend the Ground Breaking Ceremony of the Institute of Technology at Stafford College.

This is a facility that will benefit students right across Staffordshire.

[Keele University 🐿️ @KeeleUniversity]

Construction is officially underway on the new Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Institute of Technology @NSCGNewcastle following an official groundbreaking ceremony today - we are delighted to be the higher education partners on the project!⛏️🚧