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Digital Futures explained in podcast
UTC Heathrow's Digital Futures Programme has been in the spotlight in a podcast put together by Andy Davis, host of Inside Data Centre Podcast Andy, who has many years experience within the Data Centre sector, was fascinated to hear about the work being done at UTC...
Students work with VIRTUS volunteers honing teamwork skills
Volunteers from VIRTUS Data Centres gave students a fun opportunity to practise teamwork, a vital skill in today's professional landscape. Year 13 students welcomed VIRTUS's Construction Programme Manager Russell Merry and Data Centre Manager Arthur Howlett to UTC...
CyrusOne hosts students for data centre tour
Engineering students took part in a rare opportunity to tour an operational CyrusOne data centre, LON1, seeing for themselves the racks of servers used to store computer data (email, website, online transactions, etc) for some of the biggest companies in the...
Rapids response
Students jumped right in at the deep end in a Challenge Day hosted by Kao Data. With team-building the theme, the Year 12's looked at solving data centre problems, before diving in to tackle an Olympic size white water course. Post written by Mike Tamblingson,...
CNet Training’s CEO sings DFP praises at UTC conference
Our Digital Futures Programme was in the spotlight last week when our amazing advocate and founder of the DFP, CNet Training's President & CEO Andrew Stevens, gave a ‘best-in-class’ example of education working in industry at a conference held by the Baker Dearing...
Vertiv joins Digital Futures Programme
UTC Heathrow has welcomed a new partner to its ever-growing Digital Futures Programme. Vertiv, global provider of critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, will work alongside the UTC to deliver a co-teach programme of learning based on the data centre...
Mental Health Awareness Week – 15th to 19th May 2023
This week is Mental Health Awareness week and this years topic is anxiety. Anxiety is a normal emotion in us all, but sometimes it can get out of control and become a mental health problem. Kooth is here for when it does become a problem. Kooth gives children and...
Second win in a row at Data Cloud Global Awards
UTC Heathrow and partners has been recognised with its third global award in 12 months, after being named winner of the ‘Education and Employment Project Award of the Year’ at the Datacloud Global Awards held in Monaco on 26 April. The award, which was presented to...
Mental Health Calendar – May 2023
We are all part of something bigger Meaning in life can feel like a mysterious or esoteric topic, one that philosophers through the ages, and later psychologists, have tried hard to pin down. At its core, it’s a sense of being connected to, part of, and/or...