Latest News / Events
- Wage Incentive for Apprenticeships Available
- 23 February 2012
- Latest Funding £1500 wage incentive for Apprenticeships
A new Apprenticeship grant of £1500 is payable in two installments for up to 40,000 eligible employers who commit to employ one or more 16-24 year old Apprentices for the first time. This payment is a grant and exempt from more ...
- Limited Time Only - Fully Funded Management Training
- 10 February 2012
- The Oldham College is currently offering fully funded Levels 2, 3 & 5 ILM Management training. ILM is the leading provider of Leadership & Management training with over 35000 members. In 2010 over 93000 people studied and achieved ILM qualifications. "Don't more ...
- Apprenticeship Week - 6th Feb to 10th Feb
- 09 February 2012
- Oldham College Business Centre has been the centre of choice for generations of students from Oldham. Increasingly it is the centre of choice for learners from throughout the North West and beyond. The Business Centre has an excellent record of success in working with businesses of more ...
- Employer of the year - Fogg & Whittingham Dental Practice
- 05 February 2011
- Congratulations to Fogg & Whittingham Dental Practice who won The Oldham College Employer Award at the Annual Awards Ceremony held at the Queen Elizabeth Hall..
Tony Spencer Director of Business Development at the College commented: "Fogg & Whittingham fully more ...
- Business Manager Achieves NEBOSH Environmental Award
- 04 February 2011
- The Oldham College Construction and Engineering Business Manager, Allan Milne, has successfully achieved the NEBOSH National Certificate in Environmental Management. The College is extremely committed to the low carbon & green agenda and are currently investing significant more ...
- GroundTherm Supporting The Oldham College
- 19 January 2011
- Heat pump specialists GroundTherm are working closely with The Oldham College to make training in renewable technologies available to students young and old. There can be no doubt, that when the UK market in domestic and commercial heat pumps really takes off, there will be huge demand more ...
- Students Take Lessons On-Site
- 07 January 2011
- A regeneration project in Rochdale is providing The Oldham College students with real life experience of all aspects of house building thanks to a partnership between The Regenda Group, CSC Construction and Oldham College... The building project, which is being funded by The more ...
- Eric Wright Partnership Work - even in the snow!!
- 07 December 2010
- The Eric Wright Group is an established leader within the building industry, offering a wide range of services from construction and civil engineering, to property development and facilities management. For the third year running, Dan Gosling, a Managing Surveyor from the company has more ...
- Apprenticeships In Childcare - How it worked for me!
- 16 November 2010
- My name is Nicola Sergeant, I have worked as a Childcare Trainer / Assessor at The Oldham College for the past 2 years and I am a qualified level 4 Nursery worker. I did all of my training with the college through a Childcare Apprenticeship programme. I really enjoyed the more ...
- Engineering Students visit Jaguar Landrover
- 16 November 2010
- In the week of the 8th November 45 Full Time level 2 and 3 Engineering students visited the Jaguar Landrover Plant at Halewood near Liverpool. The students first had an introduction to history of the plant which was first built in the 1960’s for the production of the Ford Escort. The plant more ...
- OSAT goes from strength to strength!!
- 06 November 2010
- A successful year for the OSAT (On Site Assessment & Training) department at The Oldham College has seen the employer focussed team delivering outstanding results; with a 98% achievement rate on all NVQ’s delivered.
This is a brilliant achievement for the team, and Assistant more ...
- Job joy for all our dental students
- 21 July 2010
- A PIONEERING dental nurse cadet scheme has resulted in every graduate securing a job. The latest group of 16 Oldham College students have now started work, taking the total number of success stories to 43. Jenna Brown is one of the successful cadets and is now working at M more ...
- SMSTS Partnership with Heyrod Construction Ltd
- As from the 9th August 2010, the Construction health & safety team at the Oldham College will be working in partnership with Heyrod Construction Ltd to deliver Site Safety Plus programmes (SMSTS & SSSTS). Heyrod Contruction Ltd are a fantastic, Oldham based construction firm, involved in more ...
- Birdy flies the nest!!
- After over 50 years service to the Painting and Decorating industry in Oldham, Mr Peter Bird is finally hanging up his brushes. Peter has been a Painting and Decorating assessor at the College for ten years and prior to that either worked in or ran his own businesses in industry. He is more ...
Latest Funding £1500 wage incentive for Apprenticeships
A new Apprenticeship grant of
The Oldham College is currently offering fully funded Levels 2, 3 & 5 ILM
Oldham College Business Centre has been the centre of choice for generations of students from
Congratulations to Fogg & Whittingham Dental Practice who won The Oldham College Employer