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Students at BMet’s Sutton Coldfield College had the opportunity to attend an interactive anti knife crime awareness session this week, delivered by acclaimed local hero, Malachi Nunes. Malachi is the founder, director and behaviour mentor at Ambitious Lives – a youth service provider for disadvantaged young people with challenging behaviours. The celebrated local community ambassador […]

Foundation Learning Students at BMet have been equipped with key information and skills to give them access to a range of local apprenticeships and traineeships, thanks to a partnership with ASK. Representatives from the leading national careers support provider, came into BMet’s Matthew Boulton and Sutton Coldfield Colleges today, to provide students with unique sessions […]

BMet is set to widen and diversify its student opportunities and pathways, by joining forces with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Economic Zones Development and Management Company (KPEZDMC) in Pakistan. Key delegates from the leading organisation in Pakistan came to BMet’s James Watt College to mutually share their skills-based knowledge with business development and engineering representatives. The […]

A BMet College and National Express West Midlands partnership is set to drive jobseekers to employment success this March. The new initiative, set to get scores of bus drivers on the road, is part of the college’s partnership with Jobcentre Plus. Aimed at the unemployed the partnership is delivered via a Sector Based Work Academy […]

BMet is once again highlighting their allegiance to National Careers Week (NCW) from today, by showcasing the rewarding career journeys of employees across the colleges. National Careers Week is a one-week celebration of careers in education across the UK. It aims to empower individuals – especially students and young adults, to make informed career decisions […]

Students and staff at Sutton Coldfield College came together with pride this week for a special event to celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community at BMet as a whole and beyond. The interactive and educational session was opened by Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield Mayor, Councillor Tony Briggs and included local representatives from Sutton Coldfield Police Station […]

Matthew Boulton College, part of BMet, has unveiled its Clinical Training Suite to healthcare employers from across the city. Opened by BMet’s Chair of Governors, Sir Dexter Hutt, this new facility forms part of the college’s commitment to offer students an immersive learning environment that mirrors real clinical settings. This new facility forms part of […]

BMet loves to support Love Our Colleges Week and is pleased to be getting involved again this year with a range of communications, mostly highlighting the importance of voting. The annual AoC campaign starts today and will come to an end on Friday 1 March. With the general election looming, this year’s theme uses the […]

Local further education colleges will receive £2.4m Innovate UK funding, helping to launch new nationally leading technology adoption centres. Innovate UK has today announced the recipients of the Further Education Innovation Fund (FEIF) – a £7.3 million investment that will enable them to create Local Innovation Centres, of which £2.4m will go to colleges in […]

Foundation Engineering Degree Apprentices at BMet College are experiencing first-hand the advanced technology at the Greater Birmingham & Solihull Institute of Technology (GBSIoT). BMet students can access the GBSIoT as the college is part of a consortium of colleges that make up a regional Institute of Technology. Institutes of Technology are collaborations between further education […]