EDUCATION TRAINING NEWS

As the Cornish tech industry continues to grow at pace, the increasing demand for an innovative new digital apprenticeship has seen a leading training provider take on an additional cohort.

CCB Training, the business training arm of The Cornwall College Group, has seen the popularity of its new Digital Support Technician apprenticeship go from strengthto-strength since its launch late last year. For study programme manager, James Winnan, who heads up the apprenticeship for CCB Training, the rise in demand comes as no surprise. “Since the first wave of Covid-19 lockdown, the world pivoted through online digital technologies, making it unsurprising that the future boosting digital support technician apprenticeships have been so popular,” Winnan explained. “So much so that, in fact, we are adding an additional cohort to this academic year to meet demand.”

As the only provider of the apprenticeship in the county, The Cornwall College Group is currently training apprentices for a number of leading organisations, including Frugi, Naked Solar, Southerly Point Co-operative MultiAcademy Trust and Kings Service Centre (Kings College London).

Callywith College in Bodmin has been ranked as one of the best sixth form colleges in England.

Callywith, which opened four years ago in association with Truro and Penwith College, appears in 20th position on The Sunday Times Parent Power league table.

CALLYWITH ONE OF THE BEST

our placing in The Sunday Times Parent Power league, a testament to all the hard work of our students and outstanding staff. “Since opening the college, we have been privileged to work with hundreds of exceptional students and as a specialist 16-19 provider, it’s great to celebrate the exceptional things our staff and students achieve together.”

APPRENTICESHIP GROWTH

UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE

Falmouth University is one of the best universities in the country for producing start-up businesses.

According to new research from business financial platform, Tide, only London duo, Royal College of Art (1,655 start-ups) and Kingston University (1,630), have borne more graduate start-ups than Falmouth (1,135), since 2014/15.

As with the other two most entrepreneurial universities, Falmouth is primarily a creative university and provides support via its Launchpad programme, which has a specific focus on helping students to bring their ideas into the market.