Education and Training

Businesses are being invited to explore how modern work experience can help employers develop their future workforce.

University of Staffordshire has been named Modern University of the Year 2027 by the Daily Mail University Guide, the highest-ranked modern university in this year’s table.

Two educators from University of Staffordshire have received one of UK higher education’s top honours.

Nine young people from North Staffordshire have been helped into training and employment thanks to a scheme supported by investment specialist UKSE.

More than £17 million of government funding is being invested in Staffordshire colleges to help meet record demand for post-16 education and tackle skills shortages across the region.

Engineering firm KMF has held its largest ever awards ceremony as it prepares to welcome its 20th cohort of apprentices later this year.

Landed Estates business Bradford Estates has transformed outdoor learning at a Staffordshire village school by funding and installing a new reading area designed to inspire a lifelong love of reading.

Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group (NSCG) has been recognised by WorldSkills UK as a Centre of Excellence, as a number of its students reach the regional, national qualifier and national final stages of this year's WorldSkills UK competitions. 

A new blueprint to tackle skills shortages across Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire has identified artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, clean energy and digital technology as key priorities for the region over the next three years.