Ambassadors - West Midlands
Let 2010 be a record breaking year for West Midlands entries!!
With a few weeks we need to encourage unsure entrants to GO FOR IT this year. At this stage, some entrants think it is too soon to enter.
Here's 4 reasons why they should enter now:
- View 2010 as a 'dry run' or 'work in progress' and use the free feedback/consultancy from the judges to enhance the training moving forward
- There may enough to get your entry past the first judging process so you become an NTA Finalist and attend the Awards Ceremony
- There's a few months before the onsite visits in July - in that time, enhanced evidence and results may evolve which they can show to the judges. Plus time to pull together the paperwork evidence.
- The long list of 2009 Winners who nearly put off entering - and glad they didn't.
How can I support you?
Please feel free to contact me if you or your entrant
contacts need any guidance. Only this morning I spent
some time with an entrant who is just starting on her
entry.
Poster/Case Study Brochures
Many Ambassadors have received these by- I still have
some more- just contact me with your order.
Keep up the good work and encourage those entries to come in, regardless of whether they are!
NTA Regional Award Winner, Providing
Education and Training; Stoke on Trent College
FE College Gets Stoke Back to Work
A Further Education College in Stoke-on-Trent is helping unemployed residents to find employment.
Stoke-on-Trent College is one of the largest FE colleges in the country, with a turnover of around £45m. The college has around 15 years experience of supporting unemployed adults in the city.
Stoke is caught in a vicious circle. Nearly a quarter of adults in the region have no qualifications, and roughly the same proportion are jobless. Levels of literacy and numeracy are also lower than regional and national averages.
Long-term decline in traditional industries such as the potteries has left a legacy of high unemployment. This leads to deprivation, which leads to low aspirations among young people, which in turn leads to poor educational achievements, perpetuating the cycle of deprivation.
