We are proud to announce new strategic partnerships with MyBnk, Empatico, and Skills Builder for our Education provision. These partnerships are focussed on enhancing our successful Get Set! courses, empowering students aged 14 – 19+ to gain the essential skills they need for their career, while also supporting them to develop the essential life, financial, and human skills they need for their futures.
Specialised in helping students gain financial literacy and confidence, MyBnk works with young people to create and deliver high impact and high energy programmes covering topics such as saving, budgeting, debt and public and student finance.
Empatico works with students to help them develop their human skills through their Empathy Framework. Focussing on three dimensions, Empatico provides resources and guides to help students gain empathetic skills through emotions, thoughts, and actions.
Building on our Get Set! framework further, Skills Builder is a global movement of employers, educators and impact organisations working to together to ensure all students have the skills they need to succeed. This includes essential skills such as listening, speaking, problem solving, creativity, staying positive, aiming high, leadership and teamwork.
Students undertaking a Get Set! course with Nacro Education will be able to study and learn these skills as part of their course, alongside maths and English GCSEs, work placement opportunities, employability skills and enrichment activities.
Laura Ellis, Area Manager South and Wales from MyBnk said:
“MyBnk are very excited to start this fantastic national partnership with Nacro Education, we will be delivering our financial literacy workshops to nearly 1500 students enrolled at Nacro Education and Totton College. Our one-day workshop will be delivered to small groups of students stretching our reach from Newcastle to Hampshire. Empowering the students with new skills in budgeting, borrowing, income and how to safely use their money. This is a great opportunity for all the students to increase their financial literacy with MyBnk as part of their course at Nacro Education. We will be ensuring all the students receive the same knowledge and skills across the country. Our fun interactive sessions are designed to really engage the students in relevant and up to date information that they can practically use in their current lives and help them build a good financial future.”
Elise Temple, Director and Principal of Nacro Education said: “We’re proud of our new partnerships with MyBnk, Empatico, and SkillsBuilder. At Nacro Education, we work with a broad range of students who have either struggled in mainstream education, not found the right path for them, or are keen to get their career started with vocational learning. These partnerships allow us to offer a tailored and diverse student experience, designed to prepare them for their future.”
Alex Townsend, Assistant Principal Performance, Improvement & Innovation said: “These partnerships allow us to enhance our curriculum offer and provide students with a unique experience compared to other institutions. We offer vocational pathways that allow students to apply the skills they learn in a practical way, meaning they’re more confident with understanding themselves and others, financially independent and money literate, and have the skills employers are actively seeking.”
With Education Centres across the country, students are still able to apply to Nacro Education for this September. For more information see your local Nacro Education Centre.
About Nacro Education
As one of England’s largest independent training providers, our focus is on creating a more personalised learning experience through our Get Set! courses and apprenticeships. Empowering students to develop the personal and professional skills employers are actively seeking via our national education network and strategic partners Skills Builder, MyBnk and Empatico.
Nacro Education and Totton College are open to young people aged 14 – 19+. Some of our students loved school, and some have struggled in mainstream education, some are looking to launch their careers with a hands-on vocational course, some might have SEN and benefit from our tailored one-to-one support. What brings our community together is the desire to get set for a bright future.
We are rated Good by Ofsted, hold the Matrix standard for information, advice, and guidance services, and have received the Incyte platinum award for safeguarding. Our mission is simple – we want you to be who you want to be.
