News & Events

On Thursday 11th April 2019, MPCT Birmingham, Walsall, Dudley and Wolverhampton hosted their Awards Ceremony. The event was a brilliant success and attended by many with potentially our loudest audience ever! Thank you to everyone who came and supported our event and well done to all our Learners and Staff.   Please see a video...

On Tuesday 9th of April, MPCT’s Military Preparation School hosted their Awards Ceremony in the Ricoh Suite at Cardiff City Stadium.   The event was a huge success for our Bridgend, Cardiff, Rhymney and Swansea Year 11 learners (109). With over 80 VIPs and approx 250 parents in attendance. Head of Military Preparation School, Dan...

On Thursday 4th of April 2019, Military Preparation colleges Newcastle St. George’s, Newcastle Anzio House, South Shields, Bishop Auckland & Teesside had their Awards Ceremony. the event was hosted at the fantastic location of St.James’ Park, with a 300+ strong audience filled with VIPs, family and friends. There had been much preparation for the day...

Miss Cosgrove’s Instructor Staff Smith contacted Head Office to share her story. Miss Cosgrove started MPCT with an attitude and discipline problems and could not complete a run. Since then she has changed for the better and has a selection date for the Army Selection Centre.   Miss Cosgrove was asked these questions; How do...

Mr Olsen joined the course in November and has lost 20kg since then, and hopes to lose another 20kg by August. This is already a fantastic achievement and it can be seen form the photos how far he has already come. MPC Newcastle- Anzio House Instructors asked him the following questions about his time at...

Congratulations to Military Preparation College Newport who have won this year’s Exercise Dragons Patrol held in Cirencester Park. Our South Wales Colleges formed patrols teams, to take part in a Patrols competition where they represented their respective Centres. Each team participated in selected stands throughout the exercise to gain points towards their overall score. This...

On Monday 1st April, Military Preparation College Wrexham held their bi-annual Awards Ceremony. It was a fantastic day attended by many VIP personnel, parents, friends and family. Manny Manfred, Chair of Trustees of our charity, The Motivation & Learning Trust also attended the event to hand out well earned prizes to fund-raising individuals. He spoke...

Military Preparation College Aldershot had the privilege of a visit from WO1 Steven Parker, Command Corporal Major of The British Army on Tuesday 19th March. Our relationships continue to build with the Armed Forces, and we are especially proud of having individuals as senior visit our centres. Please see a Tweet from the man himself below,...

MPCT is unique in it’s sector in that in every Military Preparation College, every Learner learns the “IF” poem by Rudyard Kipling. MPCT’s Managing Director, Huw Lewis MBE has directed this unique element of MPCT since the establishment of MPCT in 1999. He believes that the self-confidence gained from being able to publicly speak and...