Aston College and Cranfield College have entered a brand new strategic partnership which will create academic and learn opportunities to meet serious national abilities shortages and toughen the widening of participation in greater training.
The settlement became signed on 1 August 2024 by Professor Stephen Garrett, Pro Vice Chancellor, and executive dean of the College of Engineering & Bodily Sciences and Cranfield College’s deputy Vice-Chancellor – College of Engineering and Utilized Sciences, Professor Dame Helen Atkinson DBE FREng.
Within the origin focusing on aeronautical engineering and sustainable engineering, the partnership will gaze the 2 institutions work together to blueprint a particular pathway for newbies from Aston College’s undergraduate engineering levels to Cranfield’s distinctive postgraduate classes. As phase of this the 2 organisations will explore the joint development of up-to-the-minute degree apprenticeships.
The partnership will even ogle at a shared spend of world-main providers and products at each and every universities, at the side of Cranfield’s Nationwide Flying Laboratory airplane and Aston College’s broad providers and products in sustainable engineering, paving the intention for learn collaborations, joint funding bids and shared expertise that drives innovation.
Professor Stephen Garrett said: “I’m satisfied to be working with Cranfield College on this joint project to toughen the instructional opportunities for regional college students in high-precedence engineering disciplines. The partnership could per chance be a colossal instance of collaboration across the Midlands Innovation partnership. I very powerful look forward to what we can assemble together.”
Professor Dame Helen Atkinson welcomed the partnership and said: “We know from talking to alternate how valuable it is to have a proficient team that could lend a hand reveal development. So, it’s valuable that we ruin down boundaries to academic opportunities in areas that could take care of the abilities hole and enable folks to fulfil their ambitions. This new partnership is a thrilling initiative which could perchance have a surely obvious affect on many folks and their profession paths.”
The partnership could per chance be in achieve for an preliminary three years.
