LARKFLEET HELPS STUDENT RECRUITMENT FOR GREATER PETERBOROUGH UNIVERSITY TECHNICAL COLLEGE

Staff from local builder and developer Larkfleet are helping the new Greater Peterborough University Technical College (GPUTC) to recruit students for its first year of operation. 

GPUTC is a brand new technical education facility at the Park Crescent campus in Peterborough. Due to open in September 2016, the state-of-the-art facility houses separate engineering and construction workshops, science and computer labs as well as social and communal areas. 

The college has been holding a number of recruitment days with the support of local employers, such as Larkfleet, to help showcase the various courses on offer to prospective students who will be from 14 to 19 years old. 

Larkfleet has been involved with the GPUTC since before the first plans were drawn up.  It is one of the local ‘employer sponsors’ for the project and is supporting the college plans wholeheartedly. Larkfleet CEO Karl Hick sits on the college steering group.  Investing in the future of the construction industry by supporting local young people keen to take their first steps has always been part of Larkfleet’s ethos and this partnership takes this to the next stage. 

Among the Larkfleet staff attending the most recent UTC recruitment event were architect Mark Croker and trainee architect David Laidler. 

David has been part of the Larkfleet team since starting his training.  His success has been influenced by the link created between his training and his work with Larkfleet.  It is this success that Larkfleet hopes to re-create by its relationship with the UTC. 

Helen Hick, HR director for The Larkfleet Group of Companies, said: “We are delighted to be supporting this initiative by GPUTC.  At the open evening we talked both to prospective students and to parents and all of them are keen to explore the options on offer.”