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The Baker Dearing Educational Trust supports UTCs and other educational organisations to provide high-quality, employer-led technical education that prepares young people for successful futures.
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🆕 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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#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.
🥳 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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🆕 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 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 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 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
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 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 Sleeves introduces specialist pathways in to secondary schools. UTC schools draw on the experience & successes of the UTC programme
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📰 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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📺 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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📢 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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🆕 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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👏 It has been an excellent year. We look forward to continuing to work with all UTCs and stakeholders in 2025-26! #thinkUTC
🎤 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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🩺 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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🎊 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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🎞️ 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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🤳 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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🗓️ 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... 🧵