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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · 1d

🆕 Baker Dearing CEO Kate Ambrosi has written for education and industry insight platform The Blueprint on the government's new #VLevel qualifications and how #TLevels success can be furthered, with sufficient Whitehall support. #thinkUTC

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Baker Dearing on V Levels and the future success of T Levels

Baker Dearing Educational Trust CEO on the Department for Education's new V Levels and how T Levels can continue to be successful.

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · 2d

🌑 The impressive efforts of South Devon UTC's students in the Dstl Callisto moon base project, which put them closer to achieving the Baker Award for Technical Education, have been recognised by their local newspaper #BakerAward #thinkUTC www.devonlive.com/news/devon-n...

Future engineers reach for the stars in South Devon’s moon base challenge

South Devon UTC students have designed a futuristic moon base as part of a national challenge backed by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · 8d

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T Levels Week: Baker Dearing celebrates student success - Baker Dearing

Baker Dearing celebrated T Levels Week 2025 by highlighting students who progressed to amazing destinations after the qualifications.

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · 8d

#TLevelsWeek was a fantastic opportunity to celebrate how UTC students are using these gold standard technical qualifications to progress to incredible destinations.

🖥️ We have produced a round-up of student stories from the week, which you can find on our website or through the link below.

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · 16d

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust | 2,306 followers on LinkedIn. Supporting University Technical Colleges | Baker Dearing exists only to support University Technical Colleges (UTCs). Established in 2009...

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · 16d

🥳 It's #TLevelsWeek so all week Baker Dearing will be celebrating University Technical Colleges as centres of T Level excellence.

This means student case studies, news from the 30 UTCs that are delivering these gold standard technical qualifications, and highlights from our work so far. #thinkUTC

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · 16d

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Sep 26

🆕 The Rest Is Money's Steph McGovern has praised "fantastic" University Technical Colleges for "meeting the needs of local businesses."

Fmr BoE Chief Economist Andy Haldane said the work done by the Baker Dearing Educational Trust has been "fantastic." #thinkUTC

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Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Money · 17/09/2025 · 36m

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Sep 19

📰 Baker Dearing Trustee Yvonne Gilchrist-Mason OBE, DL has told the East Anglian Daily Times why careers information and engagement between employers and schools must improve to tackle the number of young people out of work, education, and training. #thinkUTC

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Joining the dots to help young people find their future

Greater cohesion between industry, education and government to address the skills gap is badly needed, says Yvonne Mason.

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Sep 9

🆕 Baker Dearing has commented on the government #reshuffle that saw the appointment of several new education ministers and Baroness Smith’s reappointment as Minister of Skills across the Department for Education and the Department for Work and Pensions. #thinkUTC

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Education charity responds to government reshuffle - Baker Dearing

Baker Dearing has responded after new education ministers were appointed in Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government reshuffle.

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Aug 18

🆕 Baker Dearing CEO Kate Ambrosi has written for @feweek.bsky.social on how #TLevels "are now firmly ensconced in the education landscape as the gold-standard technical education pathway." #thinkUTC

FE Week @feweek.bsky.social · Aug 15

Yes, retention is still a challenge – but rising pass rates, employer buy-in, and stellar student destinations show T Levels are here to stay, says Kate Ambrosi, @bakerdearing.bsky.social
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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Aug 11

💡Baker Dearing is supporting the Greater Manchester Baccalaureate by exploring how our UTC Sleeve initiative could deliver high-quality technical education for the city's young people.

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UTC Schools | UTC Sleeves | Baker Dearing Educational Trust

UTC Sleeves introduces specialist pathways in to secondary schools. UTC schools draw on the experience & successes of the UTC programme

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Aug 11

🆕 Former Skills Minister Robert Halfon has spoken on Baker Dearing's behalf to @manchestereveningnews.co.uk about the city's technical education revolution. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

'All my friends did A Levels, now they wish they did what I've done'

She may not realise it, but she is part of a 'revolution'

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Jul 31

📰 UTCs have received positive coverage in the Indian media, demonstrating how the model can be implemented internationally to create a skilled workforce and bring down youth unemployment. #thinkUTC

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Jul 29

📺 The "visionary" UTC South Durham was featured on BBC Look North recently for the support it provides young boys who struggled at their previous school.

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"Visionary" UTC South Durham featured on BBC Look North

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Jul 29

📢 Two UTC careers education experts give their take on the government's pledge to offer two weeks' work experience to secondary school students.

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UTC South Durham and Ron Dearing UTC on modern work experience

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Jul 28

🆕 For this edition of The Blueprint, we looked at modern work experience and how the success of UTCs in connecting students with employers could be replicated on a national scale.

Read the full edition through the link below #thinkUTC
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What does modern work experience involve and could T Levels use the Growth and Skills Levy?

In this edition..

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Jul 25

👏 It has been an excellent year. We look forward to continuing to work with all UTCs and stakeholders in 2025-26! #thinkUTC

Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Jul 25

🎤 Then in July we held what is so far one of the best-received occasions of our annual UTC summer conference and dinner. Skills Minister Baroness Jacqui Smith said in her keynote: “What makes UTCs special is your enduring partnership with local employers." bakerdearing.org/resources/ne...

Skills minister delivers keynote at UTC Summer Conference - Baker Dearing

Skills Minister Baroness Jacqui Smith today addressed an audience of UTC leaders at Baker Dearing's summer conference.

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Jul 25

🩺 Later in May, we ran a hugely successful iteration of our UTC Health Tech Challenge at the University of Lincoln. Fourteen student teams from 8 UTCs across the country presented their designs for products that improve the quality of life for a specific demographic.
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Health Tech Challenge showcases student innovation - Baker Dearing

Baker Dearing proudly organised the grand final of the UTC Health Tech Challenge at the University of Lincoln's Isaac Newton Building on Wednesday 7 May.

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Jul 25

🎊 In May, after intense lobbying from us, our supporters, and UTCs, the Department for Education announced that UTCs would be exempted from the Schools Bill's requirement that all schools deliver the national curriculum. bakerdearing.org/resources/ne...

Schools Bill: UTCs to be exempt from curriculum requirement

UTCs are to be exempted from the Schools Bill’s requirement to deliver the national curriculum, Skills Minister Baroness Smith has said.

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Jul 25

🎞️ At the very end of 2024, to mark our founder Lord Baker's 90th birthday and the growing success of the UTC programme, we premiered the video 'Opening Doors: Lord Baker's Vision For University Technical Colleges.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Af...

Opening Doors: Lord Baker's Vision for University Technical Colleges

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Jul 25

🤳 In November, we ran the first #thinkUTC week where UTCs and supporters contributed videos to our 'think UTC, think...' series saying whether a UTC made them think of amazing destinations, inclusive education, top-quality technical provision, or something else. bakerdearing.org/resources/ne...

#thinkUTC week to celebrate school-age technical education

#thinkUTC week, a national campaign running from 18th to 22nd November, has been announced by the Baker Dearing Educational Trust.

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Jul 25

👋 At the very start of the year, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves MP visited Silverstone UTC to mark Amazon’s announcement of an £8 billion investment in new UK data centres. bakerdearing.org/resources/ne...

Chancellor of the Exchequer visits Silverstone UTC

Rachel Reeves MP made her first school visit as Chancellor of the Exchequer to Silverstone UTC today to mark Amazon’s announcement of an £8 billion investment in new UK data centres.

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Baker Dearing Educational Trust @bakerdearing.bsky.social · Jul 25

🗓️ It has been an incredibly busy, productive year for Baker Dearing, the UTC network, and our amazing stakeholders.

🏃 We have run events for students, training for staff, conferences, competitions, and made waves in Westminster. Here are some of the highlights from our 2024-25 academic year... 🧵

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