Careers at UTC Warrington

Our Careers Lead is Sophie Thurston, you can contact her at SThurston@utcw.co.uk for any employer engagement queries.
For any School Engagement requests, please contact AimeeSikking@utcw.co.uk
Alternatively, you can UTCW directly on 01925 737067.

Ensuring that our students are employable and career-ready are the fundamentals of UTC Warrington’s success in ensuring access to apprenticeships is higher than the national average and the quality of STEM destinations is high.

The UTC places huge importance on Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG) for all students during their time at the college. This means that our students leave us and go in to employment, education or further training with knowledge, experience and focus – especially within the engineering and technology industries.

The need for good careers guidance for our students has never been so important. We are living in an ever-changing world, where advances in technology will continue to change the future jobs market, and also the skills that our young people need.

Our positive sustained destinations along with the vocational nature of our curriculum and expertise of our teaching staff, is underpinned by our excellent careers programme.

If you have completed your studies in either Year 10 or Year 13 and would like further careers support, you can find information and guidance on the Warrington LIFE website here.

Our Approach & Vision

Our vision is to create a learning environment where young people can develop the professional skills, competencies and behaviours that will serve them throughout their working life. Our intentions are focused on the sole purpose of shaping our students to be work ready.

The UTC Warrington Promise summarises our commitment to our students. Working together with our university sponsor, Manchester Metropolitan University, and regional and local employers, we intend to support our students progress through organising opportunities that will expose them to contextualised learning experiences and the industry workplace.

Alongside our careers education, information, advice and guidance; our industry focused STEM curriculum means students are more apt to modern engineering challenges, more intellectually curious and, most importantly, more likely to demonstrate the skill set required to impress top national engineering and cyber employers, as well as leading universities.

As an business-led college, we pride ourselves in shaping our students to become the next industry leaders through offering a rich science and engineering curriculum and exposure to the local work force. To enable them to reach their fullest potential, we understand that each pupil should have access to good quality information about future study options and the labour market opportunities.

You can read more about our employability programme and how our links with employers and universities translate to activities and experiences for our students. Please click here to download the charter.