Read more about the article Ron Dearing UTC welcomes more business partners to further boost opportunities for students
Ron Dearing UTC, Kingston Upon Hull, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom, 12 July, 2022. Pictured: New Partners, LtoR James McIntosh, Rob Moulds, Glenn Jensen, Cathryn Harper, Sally Evans, Dave Hardacre, Liam Beardshaw

Ron Dearing UTC welcomes more business partners to further boost opportunities for students

Several of the region’s leading businesses have partnered with Hull’s employer-led school to provide students with industry standard skills and help create their potential future workforces. Advanced Plastics Ltd and Shipham Valves have become Major Partners of Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC), while CATCH, Northern Powergrid, Ridings Consulting Engineers and Spectrum have become Partners. In addition to its Founding Partners, the UTC in Kingston Square, Hull city centre, has many other successful businesses working…

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Read more about the article Six more leading businesses join forces with Hull’s employer-led school
Ron Dearing UTC, Kingston Upon Hull, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom, 01 March, 2022. Pictured: LtoR: Dan Gladstone (Jupiter IT Solutions) Martyn Hill (Pneumatic Engineering Ltd) Glenn Jensen (Ron Dearing UTC) Claire Hickey (QuickLine) Ciaran Sharpe (BACB Renewables) Hege Ebeltoft (Equinor) Lee Richardson IRISNDT) Six new Employer Partners visit Ron Dearing UTC.

Six more leading businesses join forces with Hull’s employer-led school

IRISNDT is an international blend of asset integrity engineering and non- destructive testing (NDT) companies providing a range of engineering, inspection, testing, heat treatment and software services to the renewable, petro/chemical, oil/gas, utility and transportation industries across the globe. The business employs 1,500 employees in Canada, Australia, the USA and the UK, including offices at Saltend Chemicals Park in Hull and in Immingham. IRISNDT, which took on one apprentice from Ron Dearing UTC last year,…

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Read more about the article Ron Dearing UTC students equipped with cutting edge robotics skills to increase career opportunities
Ron Dearing UTC robotic arm

Ron Dearing UTC students equipped with cutting edge robotics skills to increase career opportunities

Student engineers of the future are learning crucial robotics skills to give them the edge for exciting career opportunities and fill an increasing national industry skills gap. Year 12 and 13 students at Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC) in Hull are working with a state-of-the-art FANUC robot training cell as part of their Automation and Control engineering course, understanding how automation, or robotics, is used by some of the region’s largest manufacturing companies. The…

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Department for Education grant gives green light to Ron Dearing UTC expansion

Hull’s employer-led school, Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC), is delighted to have received approval and funding for exciting expansion plans. Ron Dearing UTC has been awarded a grant of just over £3.7m to increase its capacity by reconfiguring space in the school’s existing building and creating a hi-tech new Centre for Sustainability in Hull’s former Central Fire Station, adjacent to the school. Focusing on decarbonisation and renewables, the expansion will support the Humber’s growth…

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Read more about the article Largest ever intake of Spencer Group apprentices all secure full-time positions
Humber Quays, Kingston Upon Hull, East Yorkshire, United Kingdom, 06 September, 2021. Pictured: Spencer Group, apprentices.

Largest ever intake of Spencer Group apprentices all secure full-time positions

The largest ever intake of apprentices taken on by engineering specialist Spencer Group have all now secured full-time positions with the company. Hull-based Spencer Group hired 14 apprentices two years ago, with the full cohort of 18-year-olds coming from the city’s employer-led school, Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC). Now, having completed their two-year apprenticeships, all 14 have started permanent, full-time trainee positions with Spencer Group across a range of different departments of the business.…

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Reckitt CEO and CBI Director General visit Hull’s Ron Dearing UTC

The CEO of Reckitt, the world’s leading consumer health, hygiene and nutrition business, has visited Hull’s Ron Dearing University Technical College (UTC), reinforcing the company’s commitment to the region and its partnership with the pioneering school. Laxman Narasimhan and Confederation of British Industry (CBI) Director General Tony Danker, together with other Reckitt senior executives, met Ron Dearing UTC Principal Sarah Pashley and students at the employer-led school following a visit to Reckitt’s factory and R&D…

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APD to become NEC in new growth drive

Hull-based tech business APD Communications is to be rebranded within the UK software development arm of the global NEC Corporation in the latest chapter of the company’s growth. APD is a leading supplier of software to the emergency services, public safety and control room markets and became part of the worldwide NEC family two years ago. Now it has been announced that the relationship is to be reinforced by APD adopting the new company name,…

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