Mission to Mars at Home July 2020 The Mission to Mars Work Experience for students has been running since 2014. As an award winning education initiative there has already been recognition that Software Cornwall offers a valuable workplace encounter. At the beginning of 2020 schools were very quick to cancel…
A pilot of over 200 industry placements has been successfully completed as employers come forward to support the delivery of new T Level qualifications in Cornwall. Ofsted Outstanding Truro and Penwith College is the only provider in Cornwall to have been selected by the Department for Education to deliver T…
A leading local College is offering financial support to help students access University level study in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) subjects. Truro and Penwith College has announced it will be offering a £1,000 non-means tested ‘Technical Bursary’ to students starting STEM University level courses in September 2020….
by Robert Wiltshire – Software Cornwall Education Outreach Selling a Career in Software to Students Over the last two and a half years I have been building up the connections with schools around the county. Most secondary schools have received assemblies for most year groups and we have been in…
There are currently 4.3 million young people aged 16-24 in the UK, but according to research around 12% of them are struggling to get work because of a lack of relevant work experience. In Cornwall the work of the Careers Hub has been praised for helping young people to increase…
New courses in digital and information technologies are being offered with ten bursaries worth £1k each available to Cornish students. I Am Digital has launched a new scheme designed to provide a digital and information technology education to students, while giving them the opportunity to work with some of the…