Skills

Dale Parmenter, Managing Director DRGP & Sam Chambers

DRPG AND UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON: INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION OF AWARD-WINNING DESIGNERS

The University of Wolverhampton first partnered with local creative communications group, DRPG, for their graphic design industry expertise back in 2017. Since then, the global agency has continued to visit the University’s School of Art, inspiring graphic design students with a fictional client brief to be delivered on as part of an assessed module within their degree curriculum.

David Withers, Head of Design at DRPG, has been working with the Graphic Design department at the University of Wolverhampton for over five years. He explains: “It’s invaluable to work with people that are beginning their journey within the creative sectors and the University of Wolverhampton provides a great environment for this.”

In December, the agency celebrated one of the University of Wolverhampton’s own at their Anything’s Possible awards, recognising the teams and individuals who have excelled during the past 12 months. Graphic Design alumni, Sam Chambers, picked up the most coveted award, Team Member of the Year.

DRPG are also involved with several further education institutes and have gone on to recruit seven team members directly from the creative courses they support.

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NMITE: SKILLS FOR THE FUTURE

NMITE’s Herefordshire Skills for the Future programme, which is part-funded by the European Social Fund, aims to help bridge the gap between small businesses and the education sector and develop enterprise skills amongst young people.

Since summer 2021, their dedicated team has been engaging with schools and businesses across the county through Enterprise and Entrepreneurship workshops, business events, training programmes, and the development of a Work Experience Placement Directory for businesses, schools and colleges. All of these activities are fully-funded for Herefordshire businesses and education providers.

As part of Herefordshire Skills for the Future, NMITE has recently launched Springboard, an early careers leadership programme which will provide unique training and development opportunities for graduates and career-shifters.

This fully-funded 12-month training package, which is due to start on 28 April 2022, is open to employees of Herefordshire-based SMEs who have either graduated or moved careers within the last 3 years. For more information about Springboard, contact Placement Co-ordinator, Lydia Stevens

lydia.stevens@nmite.ac.uk.

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DFE WEBINARS AND WORKSHOPS: HOSTING INDUSTRY PLACEMENTS IN DIFFERENT ROLES AND INDUSTRIES

Over the next few months, the Department for Education and SDN are hosting a series of webinars looking at T Level industry placements in different roles applicable in a wide number of industries.

Each session will give you chance to hear from employers who are already hosting placements in these roles, how T Level students might contribute to the development of your workforce and the support available to you as an employer.

A number of practical 2-hour sessions are being hosted too, to help you plan for placements and explore how these might be hosted in practice.

These sessions are free of charge. You can find out more and register by scanning the QR code on the right.