Student Enterprise
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elcome to this new publication, designed to celebrate and highlight a range of Hull College Group activities and events to support and encourage young people on their enterprising journeys. Hull College Group has placed Enterprise at the core of its culture and curriculum. Students throughout the Group are supported to participate in experience of work projects and ‘live’ employer briefs to further develop employability skills as part of their study programme and readiness for work. This approach is reflected in the Group’s pioneering Employability Skills Passport, the largest dedicated employability programme of its type in the UK, being delivered to all full-time 16-18 year-old students. In this first issue you will be able to read about our students playing an integral part in the Alexandra Dock development, how the Hull College Job Club helped students gain real work experience and a partnership with ‘Platform’ that is promoting regional economic growth. You will also see how our students succeeded in the Youth Enterprise finals and details of Harrogate College BA (Hons) Interior Design students responding to a live commercial brief set by Miller Homes, the UK’s largest house building and property development company. We hope you enjoy this issue and we look forward to bringing you more enterprising stories in the future.
Gary Warke MBE Chief Executive, Hull College Group
Contents Platform Studios Partnership................................................. 4 Event promotes a ‘Platform’ for regional economic growth........................................................................................... 5 Youth Enterprise finals.........................................................6-7 Students given opportunity to design art installations for new Alexandra Dock footpath...................................8-9 Experiment at Humber Business week.............................. 9 Hull College Celebrates Global Enterprise Week...........10 Enterprising student case study: Tyrone Harrison.......11 RAGE and Employability project.........................................12 HATCH – The Faculty of Arts Creative Business Incubation Initiative...............................................................13 Employability Skills Passport................................................14 Social Enterprise Projects......................................................15 Hull College Students’ Union Enterprise Activities.......15 Harrogate College Enterprise Interior Design students set challenging project by Miller Homes..............................................................................16 Art and Design Students Pitch Halloween Decor Designs to Yorkshire Hotel....................................................17 14-16 Job Club...................................................................18-19
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Platform Studios Partnership Platform studios is a hub and talent pool, based at Hull College, which aims to help budding entrepreneurs and other start-up businesses that wish to grow within the already booming digital and technology sector in Hull. The UK is the fourth largest producer in the multi-billion pound gaming industry and Platform seeks to help those with fresh ideas regarding the approaches to technology, as well as the conception and manufacture of concepts that they believe will revolutionise the industry. On partnering with Platform Studios, Hull College Principal Graham Towse said: “The College is proud to partner with Platform Studios to work together to provide a collaborative workspace that promotes young enterprise and stimulates new business start-ups within an exciting, vibrant and fastpaced industry. Working alongside local businesses as well as big names in the technology industry, Platform showcases their efforts at Platform Expos, an annual event which last year took place across a number of Hull College campus venues and Hull Guildhall. The event is now a key fixture on the national gaming calendar, attracting local, national and international companies. The event offers the region’s young people one-on-one engagement with leading industry names to empower visitors to consider careers in gaming and content creation, and to encourage enterprise and new business start-ups.
Platform Expos 2014 saw the launch of a new Virtual Reality tech device that was designed and manufactured in Hull by the Virtual Reality headset company VISR. After revealing the project on the Hull College Campus, VISR received funding to take the project to the international Game Development Conference in San Francisco, where the project caught the attention of Google. VISR was then able to team up with Google on multiple projects, for example, bringing Virtual Reality headsets to Tankfest, an event put on by the company Wargaming, attended by over 20,000 people. All of this was made possible through Platform Studios and outside investment, by being a springboard for young entrepreneurs to push themselves forward. Platform Studios, in association with Hull College, will continue to grow not only in the technology sector, but now in the creative digital and tourism sector. In the past 5 years, there has been an increase in new business start-ups in the area, with Hull providing the greatest amount of Creative Digital Industry employment across the Humber region.
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Event promotes a ‘Platform’ for regional economic growth As part of a special event hosted by Platform and Hull College entitled ‘Platform for Business’, local businesses were encouraged to promote and support additional regional economic growth within the emerging technology and entertainment industries. During the event, Lee Stott, Technical Evangelist at Microsoft, offered insight into the huge potential of the multi-billion dollar, fast-paced global gaming industry and companies were encouraged to get involved in supporting youth development and regional economic growth by improving the employability of the region’s young people through a variety of opportunities including student internships. Lindsay West, Founder of the Platform Expos, also gave an address, saying: “Video gaming is a multi-billion dollar global industry boasting high employability rates and job opportunities. However, the industry is not just about big business, there are opportunities for small start-ups powered by the growth in mobile gaming that can become bigger in time. “Our aim is to encourage local creative talent to make an impact nationally and globally, to put Hull on the gaming industry map in time for 2017 and to aspire to showcase global video games made locally and made by Hull College students.” Hull College currently offers a range of courses from Level 2 to degree level for those interested in pursuing employment in games design, computer science or software development and works in close collaboration with Platform promoting student enterprise and employability.
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Young Enterprise finals The Young Enterprise regional finals were held at Hull College, with four of our groups taking part and one group becoming the regional winner, plus two other groups winning commendation prizes! The companies comprised of students from the FdA in Business & Management and the FdA in Computing; all the groups put in a tremendous amount of effort in coming up with their business ideas and then putting them into practice. The winners were ‘Paper Salvage’. Their paper recycling business received praise from the judges such as “good, ethical project, with likeable company members, a very good product and a niche proposal that could really grow legs”. Receiving a commendation and award for their financial projections was ‘Avenues Cultural Lifestyle Design’ with the judges saying “They knew their market and their product, and their MD was clear in the vision. Another proposal with good potential clearly linked to the massive opportunity Hull has as the City of Culture”. Mint Marketing received a commendation award for their communication and teamwork with the judges saying “very well presented, the duo worked well together and during the visits to their table, were able to explain how the idea had emerged and how they’d used their personal and professional skills to develop the proposal. Very likeable people and a ‘real’ proposal that one could see developing into a live business should they choose to long term”. Last but not least, the judges were impressed with the app product produced by “Chatterboss”, and the Faculty of Business. Foundation Degree Computing Students reach Young Enterprise National Final
Foundation Degree Computing Students reach Young Enterprise National Final A group of our Computing Foundation Degree students reached the National Finals of Young Enterprise 2015. The 7 students, mentored by Rob Goodfellow (Programme Leader for the FD Computing), came up with an innovative idea to reduce the cost of recycling paper for the College, generate income, and save the planet all at the same time! Their start-up company, Paper Salvage, rescues waste paper from landfill, combines it with natural dyes and creates bespoke ‘artisan’ paper. This is then sold to artists and hobbyists. Judges were so impressed by their idea they won the regional trophy and earned the chance to compete at the National Finals at Manchester Airport Convention Centre. Standards at the National Finals are always very high, and the students found themselves competing with large Universities, some of whom had more than one entry and significant financial backing. Despite the fact that they didn’t win against such stiff competition, they all thoroughly enjoyed the experience and have gained valuable insight into starting and running their own business.
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Enterprising students at C4DI Hull College supports those students who are aspiring to start their own business in a variety of ways. The College has been working closely with the C4Di building in Hull to develop entrepreneurial and employability based opportunities for its students who are then able to engage in talks and events hosted at the site and benefit from the mentorship and placements offered by local businesses. The College also provides its students with access to a hot desk at C4Di, sponsored by the Faculty of Business and Science. This facility provides access to meeting rooms, board room, 35 hot desks, a cafĂŠ and social/networking areas.
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Students given opportunity to design art installations for new Alexandra Dock footpath With the Siemens development on Hull’s Alexandra Dock, came the need for a new diverted public right of way to run around the site providing access. As part of this development, a group of students and interns from the Hull School of Art & Design were given the opportunity to design a series of art installations intended to be featured throughout the length of the new route. The group were invited to be involved in the project by Associated British Ports (ABP), which used local contractor CR Reynolds to build the new footpath and cycleway. ABP Project Manager Laura Morrish said, “As part of the planning consent for the scheme we were asked to add interest to the footpath by introducing a number of art installations along the route, which runs from Victoria Dock in the west, to the public car park on Northern Gateway further east.” “We decided that this would be a perfect project for some of our local art students, and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have their creations on display next to a world-leading facility.” Laura approached the Hull School of Art & Design, part of Hull College Group with the offer, open to any of the students who would like to get involved, and many seized the opportunity straight away. With a brief to represent Hull’s maritime heritage and future, six pieces were commissioned to be created from new or reclaimed material; with ABP donating materials and equipment that are no longer in use to be used however the students wish. The submitted pieces will then be judged by a panel made up from ABP, Hull City Council and Hull College, and the winning creations placed strategically along the new footpath. The finished works will also be accompanied by exhibition panels designed by local schools, with information boards documenting the history of Alexandra Dock. Anna Kirk-Smith of Hull School of Art & Design said: “ABP presented a fabulous opportunity to our BA (Hons) Fine Art students and Hatch graduate interns to gain careerdeveloping experience in working on a live project. “The open-minded and supportive approach has given the students and interns the freedom to develop a diverse and imaginative array of site-specific sculptural proposals, linked by the maritime theme. “The five commissioned artists learnt the intricacies of the construction process – from their initial creative designs to the practical fabrication of the large-scale sculptures, alongside the associated planning, installation and legal issues of making public artworks. In addition, they have received generous support for the latter from Spearfish, a Manchester arts company specialising in delivering artforms in the public domain.”
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Experiment
at Humber Business week As part of Humber Business Week, the College, and the Student’s Union hosted the Federation of Small Businesses as part of a marketing masterclass called “The Experiment”. The Business and Management Degree students teamed up with business professionals to put together a marketing plan to raise awareness of the Walker Street Children’s centre. In less than 2 hours an initial idea was turned into an innovative prototype marketing campaign with input from students and professionals alike. Ben Wright from the FSB said “The event was really inspirational as it got students and business people working together to help a great community cause; added to this a great time was had by all!”
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Hull College Celebrates Global Entrepreneurship Week Global Enterprise Week (GEW) is a national event aimed at promoting enterprising activities within young people. Hull College is one of the many partner organisations involved in Global Enterprise Week and our students are fully involved in a range of activities each year. The cross-city Enterprise Competition sponsored by former Apprentice contestant Ruth Badger has been a particular source of enterprise success. Over the past five years, Hull College students, including our 14-16 year old students, have competed against students from many other academic institutions in the city and on each occasion their efforts have been rewarded with a range of prizes, all sponsored and presented by Ruth. Global Enterprise Week activity
doesn’t stop there. All around the college students are involved with enterprising activities and some are supported by our external partners. In 2014 business administration students had the opportunity to design their own piece of jewellery, and the lucky winner not only saw their design made into a real piece of jewellery, but was rewarded with a laptop for her efforts.
Success at Global Enterprise Week 2015 For the 2015 GEW, Hull College Business students won the Badgers Sett Post 16 Enterprise Challenge. The winning team consisted of Jack Carr, Tom Platts, Mario Sequiera, Georgie Savery, Scarlett Rebello, Paris Bilton, Sumon Jaspal. Another set
of Business students also came fifth place in the challenge and got £100 to share and our 14-16 students came third out of 18 teams in the Secondary School competition and were awarded £150 to be share. The 14-16 College team consisted of Lucy Crossland, Katherine Whincup, Lloyd Jackson, Lauren Bibby, Sadek Ahmed, Terry Johnson, Ashley Bamford and Ben Selway.
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Enterprising student case study:
Tyrone Harrison
Tyrone, a 14-16 College student studied with Hull College from September 2013 to June 2015 on the Level 2 BTEC Construction & the Built Environment course. As part of this course, Tyrone participated in the 14-16 Job Club which aims to develop construction students’ employability skills and readiness for work through live community projects in schools across Yorkshire & Humber. It was through this Job Club that Tyrone really started to shine and show his great potential in design work and CAD drawing. Tyrone’s first job with the Job Club was to help construct a six metre long train at Craven Park Primary School which provides an active learning environment for the schoolchildren. Tyrone was also heavily involved in the Job Club’s project with Eastfield Primary School, Anlaby, Hull, where he has helped to build a real-life size Doctor Who Tardis to go in the doorway to school’s library as a way of encouraging the schoolchildren to use the area and become more involved in reading. Tyrone has further demonstrated his skills and entrepreneurial abilities with his managing role in the Construction department’s Workplace Solutions company which provides a shop fitting and joinery manufacturing service to local and regional businesses and operates out of the College. Tyrone led Workspace Solutions to the final of the local Young Enterprise finals 2015. Tyrone continues to work with the College on live community projects such as Hull City Farm – an EU funded project ran by Rooted in Hull – an urban agriculture concept with the aim to create a unique micro farming enterprise in the heart of Hull.
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RAGE and Employability project RAGE (Realising an Applied Gaming Eco-system) is an H2020 project that aims to deliver a collection of self-contained gaming assets that supports game studios, developers and researchers at developing applied games easier, faster and more cost-effectively, thus making them better suited for their purpose. RAGE will make these gaming assets available along with a large volume of high quality knowledge resources through the RAGE Eco-system, an online portal and social space that will connect research, gaming industries, intermediaries, education providers, policy makers and end-users. But what is the RAGE ecosystem? The RAGE Ecosystem is a social space that will be the single entry point for Applied Gaming. Besides the technology assets developed by the RAGE project, it will realise centralised access to a wide range of Applied Gaming software modules, services and resources (or their metadata) that have been designed and developed in regional and EU funded projects.
The RAGE Ecosystem will: • Provide centralised access to a wide range of dispersed Applied Gaming assets • Share strong expertise in key technology value chains • Provide a social dimension supported by community tools for collaboration, annotation, creativity, matchmaking. • Support gaming developers in moving quicker from research excellence to the market • Organise workshops and offer training courses for developers and educators • Support industrial road-mapping with new mechanisms to encourage disruptive innovation • Cover cross-cutting aspects such as international cooperation • Make available a set of asset creation aids that will allow developers and educators to create their own assets
RAGE partners: The coordinating partner is Open Universiteit Nederland. The other are a combination of research Universities (computer science mainly), games companies and vocational training providers.
Hull College Group involvement: Is to develop 2 case scenarios to specific and user test applied games to develop team working and entrepreneurship skills. The first stage will be the development of the applied games in conjunction with game company partners, the next two will be user testing across FE. HE and perhaps with other Colleges.
PC Planet is our social enterprise PC repair store entirely run by Level 3 NVQ IT Practitioner students. The service is entirely free and provides students and members of the public with hardware repairs and upgrade and equipment health checks. The students also offer free advice and guidance on how to make the most of equipment and setups. This enterprise is a great opportunity for the computing students to develop excellent customer service experience whilst also developing their technical and problem solving skills with fault diagnostics to support their learning and provide evidence for their study programme.
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HATCH – The Faculty of Arts Creative Business Incubation Initiative
The Hull School of Art of Design at Hull College has developed a pilot suite of creative incubator studio spaces branded HATCH. The aim of HATCH is to support the growth and establishment of new graduate businesses in the creative industries through mentoring provided by tutors and the faculty’s connections with external sector-specific specialists. Mentoring will shortly expand to relevant discipline-experienced members of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). Through the ongoing expansion of the HATCH scheme, it is intended that the Faculty will lead the way in establishing a new, regional creative businessbuilding support system which will act as an economic feeder and diversifier for the region’s cultural industries. Seven graduate interns have been selected by HATCH due to the strength of their business proposals and a panel interview. The successful interns and their businesses are:
• Owen Clarke & Gus Ullyott with Feet First Studios specialising in video marketing - www.feetfirststudios.com • Jenni Cluskey & Rachel Elm with Hack and Host specialising in immersive contemporary arts events www.hackandhost.com • Debi Keable- independent visual and installation artist - www.facebook. com/DebiKeableArtist/ • Peter Ronald Coates – independent maker and craftsman www.facebook.com/Peter-RonaldCoates-578613385510654/ • Jordan Palmer – independent fine artist www.jordanpalmerx.tumblr.com Recently Debi, Peter and Jordan have been commissioned to create highprofile large-scale public sculptures for Associated British Ports, Feet First Studios were deservedly presented with £600 of sponsorship from the Beverley & Decorative Fine Art Society (BDFAS) to develop their business marketing (kindly facilitated by Pat Tomlinson,
Chair of Hull College Group Board of Governors), whilst Hack & Host have held lively, intelligent and successful, inaugural arts events and visits for cultural practitioners of the city. In addition the interns are currently creating artworks and being generously supported by Sonoco Trident who are proactively improving the creative appearance and impactful visual branding of the Hull School of Art & Design through their sponsorship and support. As a legacy of HATCH, the employability and entrepreneurship skills knowledge will be fed back into the Faculty curriculum offer via intern and partner engagement with students (e.g. workshops, lectures, skills development) ensuring that the Faculty of Arts continues to effectively, and inspirationally, prepare our graduates for their chosen careers within the arts.
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EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS PASSPORT The Hull College Group revised Employability Skills Passport is based on the 7 Confederation of British Industry (CBI) skills: 1. Self-Management 2. Team Work 3. Business and Customer Awareness 4. Problem Solving 5. Communication 6. Application of Number 7. Application of Digital Technology Plus 8. Professional Development
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Social Enterprise Projects
During the spring term of 2015, students from across the Group participated in Social Enterprise and citizenship projects as part of their Personal Development Programme. These projects combined active citizenship with entrepreneurial skills linked to The Rotherham Ready Big 13 Enterprise skills. Projects were student led and included a focus on equality & diversity, sustainability, local democracy, mental health and anti-bullying. Students raised in excess of £5000 for charities both locally and nationally including Downright Special, Frederick Holmes, Doorstep, Tofs, Sunshine House, Teenage Cancer Trust and St Martin’s House Children’s Hospice. Each year, students whose projects
stand out as benefiting the community, are awarded certificates of achievement at an annual celebration event. In 2015, the event was attended by prize winners from Hull, Harrogate and Goole campuses. Representatives from Doorstep, Frederick Holmes Special School and Downright Special all attended the event and received cheques for funds raised by students, presented to them by the students themselves. Local Councillor Steven Brady also attended the event to award certificates of achievement and praise all the students that participated in projects to improve local community. Other projects run by students involved students applying their developing technical skills learnt on course to improve the lives of others. For example, Brickwork students from Harrogate college built a large planter in the grounds of Henshaw’s Society for the Blind and Beauty therapy students from both Hull and Harrogate provided a day of pampering for parent carers and elderly residents in a care home.
contributed to raising support for the national “Get Maisie Home” campaign, which has now resulted in more beds being made available in the area for teenagers in mental health crisis. Students on the level 3 IT Technicians course used their entrepreneurial skills to raise money for St Martin’s House Children’s Hospice and Rio, a young boy with complex needs. Rio had never been able to stand up due to his physical condition but thanks to the money raised by Hull College students, which paid for specialist equipment, Rio was able to stand upright for the first time. Music students combined their subject specialism with entrepreneurial skills in order to organise a fund raising concert. All funds raised were donated to “Sea Shepherd”, an organisation committed to protecting marine mammals and promoting ocean sustainability.
Other students chose to focus on raising awareness on social issues linked to equality to diversity such as mental health. Students in Hull
Hull College Students’ Union Enterprise Activities opportunity to apply for funding for Educational trips or enterprise projects via the Students’ Union.
Hull College Students’ Union offers a variety of different enterprise activities for students to take part in during their time at Hull College Group. Enterprise Officer, Jennifer Megson carries out focus groups with students across the 3 campuses to find out what students know about enterprise and discussing ways in which the Union can provide enterprise based activities. The Pitch The Pitch has been running since November 2011, it gives students the
There is a three step process whereby the student first completes a proposal booklet outlining what they want to achieve with the funding and the research and information they have collected to support their application. Once this has been submitted the executive team will then review the application and decide whether to allow the applicant through to the next stage of the process. When a decision has been made the successful applicants will be invited to stand in front of a panel of judges, usually the Enterprise Officer, a member of staff and a student rep, to present their idea and explain further why they feel
they deserve the funding after which a decision will be made. For 2015/16 the prize levels are as follows: 1st Prize- £200 2nd Prize- £140 3rd Prize- £80 Applicants will need to provide the Union with invoices and receipts for their projects so we can manage the allocation of the funding appropriately. We will also offer support to unsuccessful applicants in the way of knowledge and resources through the Students’ Union. The Pitch is carried out over the three sites; Hull, Goole and Harrogate.
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Harrogate College Enterprise Interior Design students set challenging project by Miller Homes BA (HONS) Interior Design students studying in their second year at Harrogate College have been set a challenging project by Miller Homes; the UK’s largest house building and property development company. Miller Homes are currently building a brand new housing development on Harlow Moor Road, Harrogate, named Harlow One and are looking for an innovative new design concept to showcase in the show home, selling the energy efficient new builds. After a site visit and a comprehensive client brief, students were able to get a feel for the space and allow their ideas to start formulating. This project poses quite a challenge to the group, as they are used to working on commercially orientated projects involving architectural and structural decisions, along with functional and aesthetic planning. This is a fantastic opportunity to push themselves out of their comfort zones and into a decoration mind set, working on a live client brief and to a tight deadline. The degree students set to work on creating a design concept for the master bedroom and bathroom, with the target demographic of a young and professional family in mind. Each individual has honed in on their own set of skills to tackle this project; from hand drawings to computer based design such as ‘Photoshop’ and ‘Sketch Up’. The project allows for a variety of techniques and display methods, bringing out the creativity of each student. The students were also given the freedom of a practice pitch of their ideas, to benefit from, and draw upon the wealth of knowledge and experience from tutors Emma Smetham and Caroline Miekina Houseman. “Studying is of great importance but it is also imperative that students can apply these skills to practical projects. Working with such a recognised company will allow them to understand the processes in this particular field of design and will undoubtedly give them valuable experience. It’s a great opportunity for our students and also the college and we look forward to a strong partnership with Miller Homes team.” – Emma Smetham, Course Leader. The students will present their completed project books, design sheets, mood boards and rationale to the panel at Miller Homes in November.
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Art and Design Students Pitch Halloween Decor Designs to Yorkshire Hotel Art and Design students at Harrogate College were recently offered an extremely exciting opportunity by The Yorkshire Hotel, to design and create a bar full of Halloween decorations. The HG1 bar in the Yorkshire Hotel, Harrogate, approached the Art and Design department for an innovative new design concept for their annual Halloween party, in the form of a student competition. After a visit to the site and a client brief, the students separated into groups and set to work conjuring up some spooky ideas to win the challenge. With only a ÂŁ350 budget to deck the venue, it was important that the students researched and carefully contemplated what materials they would use, and state why on their design sheets. On Tuesday 13th October, General Manager Rob Warren, Operations Manager Chris Thompson and Assistant Food and Beverage Manager Simon Hodgeson arrived at Harrogate College to form the panel that the groups would be pitching their ideas to. As a joint first and second year project, the student groups were varied and mixed which threw out some charming ideas. Once all the groups had pitched, the design sheets were brought back into the room for further discussion by the team from The Yorkshire Hotel, and after much deliberation, it was decided that ideas from each group would be combined into one magnificent Halloween themed bar.
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14-16 Job Club Designed to run as a business enterprise, Job Club develops students’ employability skills and readiness for work and is made up of construction students between the ages of 14-16. The Job Club is in addition to the students’ main vocational qualification and operates two evening classes per week. The Job Club has delivered a range of live project briefs within the community including painting a six metre long train heading for Craven Park Primary School, coffins for the Hull Paranormal Society, refits for nurseries in Goole, Snaith and Immingham and various other commissions.
Job Club is led by curriculum leader Darren Storrer who has been personally recognised for the initiative, including being named Teacher of the Year at the Hull Daily Mail Golden Apple Awards 2014 and selected as a finalist ahead of 20,000 UK applicants for the prestigious Pearson Teaching Awards. Darren said: “The Job Club is a great reflection of the dedication of my students and the chance to experience something new. It not only shows their commitment to the course and me, but importantly to the trade they are studying. I’m very proud of what has been achieved. ”
Hull College Principal Graham Towse said: “The Job Club is a further example of a high quality initiative which prepares our students for work and gives them the skills they need for future employment. It sits perfectly alongside schemes such as our Employability Skills Passport which we have designed with the help of our employer partners. Initiatives like this will help to ensure that students leaving Hull College Group will have a positive and influential impact on the Humber’s local businesses and industries.” Last year’s Job Club had a 100% progression rate into post 16 courses at Hull College.
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