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Apprenticeship financial incentives were first introduced by Rishi Sunak in August and currently offer firms £2,000 to take on apprentices aged 16 to 24, while those that employ new apprentices aged 25 and over are paid £1,500. The chancellor announced yesterday that the bonuses, set to end this month, will be extended for a further […]

For National Apprenticeship Week we are celebrating our apprentices and their successes! Mary Wallbank studied a Level 3 Agricultural Engineering apprenticeship at Reaseheath College back in 2016. She is now a Service Manager at Clarke and Pulman. Mary said: “I chose an engineering apprenticeship rather than go to university after ‘A’ levels because employers look

For National Apprenticeship Week we are celebrating our apprentices and their successes! Dan Lewis was a Level 3 Construction Plant Apprentice back in 2018. His ambition was to travel the world and he is now a British Antarctic Survey Engineer! Dan Said:  “I qualified as a construction plant engineer after a three year apprenticeship with

Reaseheath College’s elite engineering department has welcomed a new partnership which will provide career ready construction plant service engineers for SMT GB, the UK’s only distributor for Volvo Construction Equipment. The bespoke Level 3 Land-based Service Engineering Apprenticeship was launched last November for 19 apprentices at two levels of experience. A seven-strong cohort of new

The UK’s largest training and research centre for vertical farming is being built at Reaseheath College in Cheshire. Vertical farming is the practice of growing plants indoors under fully controlled and sterile conditions in stacked layers. It offers a means of growing safe, healthy and nutritious food locally and has been welcomed by environmentalists due

Reaseheath has a particularly exciting year ahead, as 2021 marks the college’s 100th anniversary. The momentous milestone will be celebrated throughout 2021, by looking back over the past 100 years since the college (originally The Cheshire School of Agriculture) first opened in 1921. The year will be a celebration of everything the Reaseheath community has

Following the Government announcement on 30th December, learning for apprentices will be delivered online w/c 4th January 2021.

Reaseheath trained engineering apprentice Sam Jones has been recognised as a future ‘star’ in a competition aimed at finding the nation’s best construction plant apprentices.

An apprentice gardener at the University of Chester is proof that sometimes the grass really can be greener on the other side. Lisa Owen, who is 41 and from the city, made a life-changing decision just over two years ago to follow her dream, and become a gardener – and she has never looked back.

In the recent months, Reaseheath has delivered industry recognised City & Guilds NPTC courses to many local businesses including Knutsford Town Council.