This latest accolade follows on from last year’s Gold win in the FE First Awards 2019 for two unique campaigns involving The Manchester College and Total People. Marketing and Communications colleagues are also finalists in the External Relations Team of the Year category of the Educate North Awards, with the winners set to be announced in March 2021.

Find out more at www.mollearn.com MOL works in partnership with leading companies designing training solutions to meet their needs including bespoke graduate, in-house training and at times, working in collaboration with partner organisation, Total People, who can support clients with apprenticeship programmes if required.  MOL employs tutors who are expert practitioners in their fields.

This follows from a double award nomination in the  Tes FE Awards  in January 2020 and the college reaching the finals of the  AoC Beacon Awards  in November 2019, totaling 10 award nominations in just four months. Lisa O’Loughlin, Principal of The Manchester College, said: “Huge congratulations must go to our amazing colleagues at The Manchester College whose hard work, innovation and commitment has resulted in so many nominations.

The ambition follows on from a pledge earlier this week to give new school teachers a £2,400 reward after two years of service in order to improve retention in the profession, after official figures showed that 40,000 teachers – 9% of the total number – left education last year .  The announcements have been welcomed by national education, skills and training provider LTE Group, but its CEO John Thornhill has called for the party to commit to bold action to support recruitment and retention of teachers in further education to deliver an ambitious technical skills agenda that will help address labour shortages and drive economic growth.