Learner Experience

• Regular workplace exposure through employer visits, guest speakers, live industry briefs and placement opportunities

• Access to state-of-the-art, industry-standard equipment and facilities to build real hands-on technical skills

• Courses specifically designed with employer partners to match the skills industry needs right now

• Learn from expert teaching staff who bring a wealth of industry experience to every class

• Learn a host of employability skills while boosting your technical knowledge and confidence

• Student mentoring support, mock interviews and career advice to help you prepare for work

• Support to take part in WorldSkills competitions and regional and national technical skills challenges

• Belong to a GMIoT network larger than one location, with access to wider partnership experiences

Institutes of Technology will provide you with:

1. 1Well-designed, ambitious and enjoyable courses and programmes, with accredited higher technical qualifications that employers value. These prepare you well to progress into higher-level “good” jobs and/or higher-level learning.
2. 2Clear information advice and guidance, prior to entry to your course or programme, through a range of information and activities. To help you to consider and plan your own learning journey into and through higher technical education, whatever your starting point and aspirations
3. 3A learning experience that improves and develops the wider professional and personal skills you need for higher level job roles and lifelong higher-level learning
4. 4Support for you to overcome any barriers which might get in the way of your learning, with flexible personalised options that enable you to balance learning with work and wider responsibilities
5. 5Multiple opportunities, throughout your course or programme, to work with a range of employers, including those in your locality to enable you to develop the professional, high-level technical and wider skills needed to be successful in your chosen career pathway
6. 6High quality digitally enabled environments, with cutting edge industry standard equipment, that enables you to gain hands-on experience and technical skills to support you to progress directly into industry
7. 7Teachers and support staff who are skilled education professionals with high level and relevant industry knowledge in their sector/subject area who can support you to develop your own professional practice, industry knowledge and higher-level skills
8. 8Opportunity for you to reflect on and give feedback on your learning experience to help us to ensure we deliver high quality courses/programmes that are of high value to you and others
9. 9Support to progress your own career pathway to higher level jobs and/or learning, relevant to your future career aspirations and to develop your skills in managing your own professional career journey