One of Nottingham’s top training providers, we offer work placements, training, and skills solutions to meet your business needs.
Nottingham College is one of the largest colleges in the UK today, with over 30,000 students every year. They choose
us because of our vast range of full and part-time courses and Apprenticeships, our expert tutors and assessors and our links with hundreds of employers who help shape our courses and open up doors to a generation of newly skilled future employees.
We deliver training to over 2000 local employers, via our impressive range of Apprenticeships but also through various bespoke training packages that we develop with you. We are absolutely committed to ensuring that organisations in the East Midlands prosper because our businesses are able to find and recruit the people they need to grow.
Our local businesses face a number of strategic challenges including the changing nature of work, i.e. the impact of low carbon, digital and autonomous technologies as well as big data.
An ageing population, decreased migration and a widening skills gap are issues that many of our local employers face.
We at Nottingham College are responding to these challenges by providing people with job-related skills and qualifications as well as the softer skills needed to enable people to succeed in the workplace.
We are creating clear pathways to employment, from entry to degree level and we are investing in specialist staff and facilities to effectively respond to employers’ needs.
To achieve this, we offer more than 80 different Apprenticeship options, plus a range of bespoke solutions which can be delivered within college or on your business site.
By accessing our Apprenticeships and training options you will:
- Reduce your training and recruitment costs overall
- Improve your efficiency and productivity
- Develop a skilled, motivated and well qualified workforce
- Improve customer satisfaction
- Achieve a good financial return on investment
That’s our promise to you!
What we do
Finding, training and developing your current and future staff is at the heart of what we do. Our services include:
Apprenticeships with Nottingham College are an ideal opportunity for you to mould and develop individuals directly related to the needs of your business. Our services include the advertising of your vacancies as well as the end to end recruitment and selection of your candidates.
Nottingham College is committed to offering our students the opportunity to participate in meaningful work experience during their time with us.
We have access to a range of funding opportunities to work with local employers on a number of projects to develop their employees.
Nottingham College engages employers in the design of its courses and training programmes, ensuring that they are fit for purpose and meet your industry specific skill needs including the development of soft skills.
There are numerous grants available to support training and development. We will advise and support you in accessing the appropriate funding. We can advise you on all aspects of the Apprenticeship Levy, if you pay this and if you are a small business, we can advise on how best to access free or heavily subsidised training and development packages.
We offer a wide range of nationally accredited and tailor-made courses to enhance skills, qualifications and knowledge and keep your workforce up to date with standards and regulations specific to your sector.
Get involved
Work with us to ensure you get the maximum benefit from our services.
Investing in the future of your business
Nottingham College’s intention is to maximise funding opportunities to encourage employers to invest more in their workforce training and development and to put them in the driving seat.
Employer driven training
Work with us to create bespoke courses relevant to your workplace. As well as accredited technical qualifications, these could be
focussed on the wider skills and behaviours necessary to be a success in your business.
Take your business to the next level
Whether you’re a small or medium enterprise (SME) or a large, corporate employer, with our education, training and employability services we’re here to help!
- Grow your workforce with our high quality recruitment service.
- Enhance the capability of current staff through
- Apprenticeships or work-based vocational qualifications.
Invest in talent of the future
We know industry is always changing due to the latest technologies, in order to make sure at Nottingham College we can deliver the training of the future and that our curricula is market led we need your support!
- Sit on one of our Industry Advisory Boards to help us shape what the current and future curricula looks like.
- Give talks to our current students about the industry landscape and raise awareness of your business.
- Provide valuable work placements or live briefs for our students to help give them the industry insight and employability skills to secure employment.
- Provide industry days and training for our staff to keep their knowledge current and to support their understanding of the skills challenges of the local labour market.
- Be involved in the design and delivery of our curricula.
