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Digital Futures shortlisted for industry award
UTC Heathrow and Partners have been shortlisted! Following our win last year, UTC Heathrow and Partners is delighted to be shortlisted for the Education and Employment Project Award in the prestigious DataCloud Global Awards 2023! The winner will be announced at an...
Digital Futures Programme rolling out to Thames Valley schools
ALET's award-winning education Digital Futures Programme, designed to give students a head start into digital careers, is rolling out to all three of the Trust's University Technical Colleges – UTC Reading, UTC Swindon and UTC Oxfordshire - following its successful...
Digital Futures graduate embarks on engineering career at LMG
A former pupil and pioneering student of UTC Heathrow's Digital Futures Programme has landed a top-flight apprenticeship at LMG - one of the programme's founders. Hassan Elbarbary is one of three apprentices from UTC Heathrow to have started at the firm, having been...
UTC Heathrow cadets have lift off
For the first time since 2015, four cadets from UTC Heathrow CCF took part in an exhilarating gliding experience at RAF Little Rissington in Gloucestershire. On Saturday 30 September, Cadet Taylor, Sgt Bhardwaj, Flt Sgt Gregory and Cadet Warrant Officer Jhamt were...
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...
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