College promotes progress

Teaching staff at MidKent College spent a week focused on promoting routes into further education and university as part of a progression week held at the college’s Medway and Maidstone campuses last month.

Students from a range of local schools were given an opportunity to sample some of the college’s most popular courses, whilst its centre for higher education courses in construction and civil engineering - located at the Rochester Riverside complex - played host to an open event for those considering a move into university level training.

Director of the college’s foundation degrees in construction and civil engineering, David Brooks, said. "Progression weeks are held at regular intervals throughout the college year with the primary focus of highlighting the learning paths and progression routes open to students after they have completed compulsory education at school, or further education at college or in the sixth form.

“The open event hosted by my own department aimed to provide visitors with an opportunity to meet university representatives, careers advisers, and students already enrolled on the college’s higher education programmes."

The Rochester Riverside-based event was open to existing MidKent College students, local sixth formers and anyone else interested in completing a degree in construction. As well as university representatives and college careers advisers, also represented at the event was professional body responsible for representing construction workers worldwide, the Chartered Institute of Builders (CIOB).