Industry specialisms
Loughborough College Group offers tailored, bespoke and collaboratively-designed provision for employers to meet specific skills needs, through apprenticeships and work-related training programmes. The Group can support skills needs analyses and assist recruitment of suitable candidates.
Key focus areas of employer-facing provision are Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing, Digital Technologies, Construction and Power Infrastructure, incorporating sustainability and green skills, Professional, Business and Financial Services, Healthcare and Creative Industries.
The Group can tailor solutions across Apprenticeships, part-time, block release and online learning programmes, Degrees, Professional Qualifications and placements to develop employees’ skills and achieve our industry partners’ goals in the most flexible, time-effective manner possible in following sectors:
- Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing and Power Infrastructure
- Construction Crafts (electrical installation, plumbing and heating, bricklaying, carpentry and joinery)
- Digital Skills and Artificial Intelligence
- Automotive (including electrical vehicles, HGV and forklift maintenance)
- Warehousing and Logistics
- Leadership and Management
- Accountancy and Finance
- Health and Social Care
- Childcare and Early Years
- Sport and Leisure, and Sports Therapies
- Creative Media
- Hair, Barbering and Beauty
- Farming and Land-Based Industries and Agricultural Engineering
Loughborough College Group has specialist provision in some key industry areas sectors:
- Automation and Control Engineering
- Power Industry Electrical Engineering
- Electrical Vehicles, including HGV
- HGV and Forklift Truck maintenance
- Sports, Health and Fitness
- Construction and Professional Trade
- Farming, Land-Based and Animal Care
Key facilities and capabilities
Loughborough College group has industry-standard facilities and workshops across all its campuses, with an ongoing programme of significant investment in state-of-the-art facilities to maintain currency and relevance for key industries:
- The East Midlands Institute of Technology is a purpose-built facility for delivering Engineering, Advanced Manufacturing and Power Infrastructure training and qualifications, with cutting-edge practical resources.
- The Digital Skills Hub on the Loughborough campus provides high quality teaching and learning facilities for community upskilling and specialised advanced digital technology education to support Industry 4.0, cyber security and networking for industry.
- The Loughborough Sports Centre houses a large contemporary sports hall, flexible learning spaces and high-quality teaching facilities. This complements the College’s other sports and therapy facilities which provide enviable practical experiences, in collaboration with Loughborough University.
- T-levels, which provide a valuable bridge between school and employment, are a key component of the College Group’s full-time 16-18 provision, with the ability of these students to achieve work placements when part-skilled, in collaboration with employers who may well recruit dedicated students on completion; the Loughborough campus has a newly-built T-level Centre within which Electrical Installation, Engineering, Education and Early Years, Digital Production Design and Development, Health, Business and Management and Media Broadcast and Production are delivered, with facilities to simulate real-world workplace environments.
- Brooksby College Agritech Centre is a state-of-the-art facility, that supports Agricultural training, Land Management and Production. Brooskby college is a LANDEX specialist college that includes a working commercial arable and livestock farm.
- Cutting edge industry standard Fork Lift Truck and Heavy Goods Vehicle maintenance workshops at Stephenson College provide practical skills development opportunities.
- The Gas Academy and Industry standard professional trade workshops create opportunities across a range of construction sectors.
Get in touch
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Stephenson College — the home of technical skills and apprenticeships
Part of the Loughborough College Group, Stephenson College is a specialist college for construction, engineering, building services, digital, business and employer-led training. Based in Coalville, Leicestershire, Stephenson works closely with employers to deliver real skills for real jobs.
Our courses include:
- Apprenticeships
- T Levels
- Technical and vocational qualifications
- Employer-led training
- Professional and adult learning
Brooksby College — the UK’s specialist land-based and animal-care college
Part of the Loughborough College Group, Brooksby College is a nationally recognised centre of excellence for agriculture, animal care, equine, countryside management, land-based engineering and rural studies. Set on a stunning rural campus in Leicestershire, Brooksby gives learners access to working farms, equine centres, animal units and specialist industry-standard facilities.
Part of the Loughborough College Group, Brooksby College is a nationally recognised centre of excellence for agriculture, animal care, equine, countryside management, land-based engineering and rural studies. Set on a stunning rural campus in Leicestershire, Brooksby gives learners access to working farms, equine centres, animal units and specialist industry-standard facilities.
Loughborough College — one of the UK’s leading career-focused colleges
Part of the Loughborough College Group, Loughborough College is nationally recognised for elite sport, T Levels, technical education and university-level study, all delivered from a state-of-the-art campus in Leicestershire.
We offer an outstanding range of courses including:
- T Levels
- BTECs & technical qualifications
- Apprenticeships
- University-level degrees
- Professional and employer-led programmes