MPCT Learners join Covid Army

MPCT Learners on Tyneside have shown their support for fellow students by signing up to help with a Covid testing programme. Leaners at Military Preparation College (MPC) Newcastle have joined forces with Newcastle College. And they will now spend three days a week as Covid Marshalls, directing students to and from the College’s testing site.

MPCT ensures ‘No one gets left behind’.

MPCT learners and staff are hitting the road – virtually – to ensure No-one Gets Left Behind. MPCT, is backing the UK Government campaign to ensure pupils of all ages can access remote education during the coronavirus lockdown and beyond. And from 1 March to 23 April, 1500 of our 16-19-year-old we will be taking

Standing Up To Covid: The Sandhurst Way

MPCT has joined forces with one of our Patrons, Paul Nanson CB CBE who, using his pedigree as a former Major General and Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, has produced an invaluable guide to negotiating the many difficulties we all face as we continue to deal with the the Covid-19 pandemic. The guide

MPCT EMPLOYEES VOTE IT ‘WORLD CLASS’

Tea, toast and online fitness sessions have led MPCT to be voted ‘world class’ – by its own employees. Our 170-strong workforce at MPCT took part in a confidential survey of eight categories of workplace engagement by independent specialists, Best Companies. A Best Companies accreditation shows that workplace engagement is taken seriously producing ‘very good’,

MPCT Ambassador & British middleweight champion, Liam Williams announces world title fight.

All at MPCT would like to congratulate British middleweight champion Liam Williams on the announcement of his world title fight with American WBO middleweight champion Demetrius Andrade. Liam who hails from the Rhondda but trains out of the renown Ingle Gym in Sheffield has become a world title challenger after impressive victories over Mark Heffron,

Why MPCT are supporting Time to Talk Day

With so many of us suffering mentally due to the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, today’s annual ‘Time to Talk Day’ is perhaps even more crucial in the current climate. Conversations about mental health will be happening nationwide today as part of the social movement organised by Time to Change to end the stigma

MPS MIDLANDS PUPIL NOMINATED FOR TOP AWARD

A pupil at a Midlands Military Preparation School has been nominated for a top award for his actions in a crisis. Fifteen-year-old Elijah Rama, from Parkfields, Wolverhampton, was on his way home from school when he saw a taxi collide with an 11-year-old boy. And, while other passers-by stopped to film the incident on their

FORMER MPCT RECRUIT NAMED ROYAL MARINE OF THE YEAR

A former student at a MPCT Isle of Wight has made history by becoming the first person to receive a prestigious accolade. Marine Jack Duer of 43 Commando’s O-Squadron was selected by senior officers within the Corps as Royal Marine of the Year for most embodying what it means to be an elite commando. And