Employer Partnerships and Engagement

Great partnerships start with great conversations

Our Employer Partnership Scheme is a mutually beneficial initiative designed to join the dots between education and industry and create lasting, collaborative relationships that benefit:

• our students
• our employer partners
• our college group
• the local economy
• the communities we serve.

Our strategic partners

• Bedfordshire Chamber of Commerce
• Northamptonshire Chamber of Commerce
• BSI
• Bedford Giving

There are so many ways we can work together and you can commit to as much or as little as you want:

• Delivering industry masterclasses
• Guest speaking
• Hiring an apprentice
• Join the Employer Partnership Scheme
• Joining Industry Advisory Boards to help shape courses and sector skills needs
• Offer students work placements
• Set student projects

Across the group we are training more than 18,000 students at any one time, the majority of whom are looking to start their careers when they leave.  By working with us you will get the chance to see that pipeline of talent at first hand, and maybe even spot potential employees of the future.