The Institute of Technology (IoT), will bring together industry, education and research to jointly design and develop education and training opportunities.
Great to welcome Sir Gavin Williamson, MP, to see the fantastic progress on our Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire Institute of Technology! ๐
He toured with Principal Craig Hodgson & saw first-hand the future of technical education in our region.
Today we hosted the @WeareStaffs Ambassador Event, themed โ๐ผ ๐๐ก๐๐๐ ๐ค๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ก๐ก๐จ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐๐๐ง๐ฃ๐๐ฃ๐โ๐โจ
The event brought together businesses, educators and public sector leaders to discuss the future of the countyโs 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.
๐ผ ๐๐ช๐๐ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช 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 ๐
Weโre 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 ๐๐ป๐
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 ๐ฝ https://t.co/1JJo6Vrsop
๐๐ฉ ๐๐๐จ ๐๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฉ 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.
More details have been unveiled regarding the state-of-the-art facilities that will be available to students at a new ยฃ22.5 million centre for high-level education and training.
๐๏ธ https://t.co/3X0hvUvzVr
New ยฃ22m technology centre in #Stafford is being backed by a ยฃ1m 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
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 - ๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ค๐ง๐๐๐๐ก ๐ข๐๐ก๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ค๐ฃ๐. ๐ฃ๐ง
๐๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ฒ'๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ! 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. ๐ธ๐๏ธ
Massive ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช to Dave Thomas and Huw Owens from Siemens who have donated three collaborative robots to the @sotiot. ๐ค Donations such as these will allow our learners to learn with cutting edge, industry standard tech. ๐ค
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 sessions๐ค
What an ๐๐ฃ๐๐ง๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ day!๐คฉ
It's been a fantastic welcoming @nscgnewcastle and @NSCGStafford students, employers and universities from all over the UK to our #NSCGNextSteps Fayre. ๐๐ฉโ๐ซ๐
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! ๐๐
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 ๐๐ป
#InstitutesOfTechnology#collaboration#Partnerships
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
๐ทโโ๏ธA 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
On Friday Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire Institute of Technology celebrated an exciting construction milestone! ๐
@NSCGStafford@educationgovuk
https://t.co/pgOy0wuJx5
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.
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!โ๏ธ๐ง