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UTC Sheffield City Centre Wins National Award Recognising Top Performing Schools in England
Posted: 26 March 2020 in City Centre, News
UTC Sheffield City Centre has received national recognition for being one of the highest performing schools in England for technical learning. The UTC has won a Schools, Students and Teachers (SSAT) network award for ranking in the top 20% of non-selective schools for student attainment at post 16 in applied general subjects. The SSAT Educational […]
Groundbreaking UTC Sheffield City Centre celebrates Ofsted ‘good’ grading
Posted: 16 March 2020 in City Centre, News
UTC Sheffield City Centre has been graded ‘good’ by Ofsted in its latest inspection, according to a report published today – March 16th 2020. As one of the top performing institutions of its kind nationally, the flagship UTC recruits young people, aged 13 to 19, from across Sheffield City Region. Ofsted has praised leaders and […]
Meet our Alumna, Kayla Baugh, Design Placement student at the AWRC at Sheffield Hallam University
Posted: 12 March 2020 in News, Olympic Legacy Park
Kayla joined UTC Sheffield to study Engineering at City Centre and then went on to study Sport at Olympic Legacy Park. She is currently on a University Design placement at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre (AWRC) at Sheffield Hallam University. Why did you join UTC Sheffield? At my previous school, they removed the engineering course […]
Engineering student, Solomon Maragh, selected to represent Jamaica in Canoe Slalom Championships
Posted: 10 March 2020 in City Centre, News
UTC Sheffield City Centre Engineering student, Solomon Maragh, has been selected to represent Jamaica in the ICF Pan-American Canoe Slalom Championships, as their first Canoe Slalom athlete, in Rio de Janeiro in April 2020. The competition is one of the most spectacular water sports, which demands skill, stamina and courage. The aim is to run […]
Future Engineers take part in skills day at AMRC Training Centre
Posted: 9 March 2020 in City Centre, News
A group of Sheffield students have been shown what it takes to become an engineer in a manufacturing camp run by the University of Sheffield AMRC Training Centre. Thirty teenagers, who are each studying engineering at UTC Sheffield City Centre, took part in the week-long course which introduced them to life as an apprentice engineer […]
Meet our Alumni: Apprentice at Lavender International, Cameron Barber
Posted: 3 March 2020 in City Centre, News
Cameron joined the UTC in Year 10 and carried onto sixth form to study an Engineering Diploma, EPQ and Core Maths. He currently works as an Apprentice at Lavender International; an engineering company that specialises in non-destructive testing and works alongside colleges to support the delivery of new apprenticeships within this area. Tell us about […]
Sport Science student makes Professional Debut for Sheffield Steelers
Posted: 12 February 2020 in News, Olympic Legacy Park
UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park student Curtis Warburton has recently made his professional debut for Sheffield Steelers, a professional ice hockey team who play at the FLYDSA Arena. He had been practising with the team before his debut and wore the shirt for the club for the first time in January, against the Nottingham Panthers. […]
New Applied Science course available to study at UTC Sheffield Olympic Legacy Park
Posted: 10 February 2020 in Olympic Legacy Park
UTC Sheffield OLP has launched an exciting new offer for sixth form students, the Level 3 Cambridge Technical Certificate in Applied Science. The new course will run from September 2020 and is available to Year 12 students wishing to study a vocational qualification in Science alongside A Levels. The new qualification has been designed with […]
Team UTC Sheffield on the road to Shanghai skills ‘Olympics’
Posted: 27 January 2020 in City Centre, News
A UTC Sheffield team has got through to the next stage of a global competition after being selected for the WorldSkills Squad UK. Brad Ellison, Paul Hayter, and Kamil Zmich, are among 137 apprentices and students from across the country who have been chosen for the team after winning competitions at WorldSkills UK. All three […]
Computing Students Success in Hackback 2 Competition
Posted: 20 December 2019 in News, Olympic Legacy Park
Year 12 Computing students, Thomas Fairey, Jack Underwood, Daniel Dixon and Jakub Zrobczynski, took part in the Hackback 2 national cyber security capture-the-flag competition in October. The event itself is aimed at university students. As UTC Sheffield OLP is already an established cyber-security entity, we were given special admittance to the competition, which boasts an […]