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MPCT Learner Nominated for National Award

A Learner at MPCT’s Nottingham Military Preparation College has been nominated for a top award for his compassion in a crisis. Seventeen-year-old Nathaniel Dryden, from Derby, was on his way to his weekend job at a Covid testing centre when he saw a young man preparing to throw himself from a motorway bridge spanning the...

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MPCT Alumni is Finalist at the Women in Defence Awards

Former Learner, Sgt. Emma Owen, has been nominated and is a finalist for The Inspirational Award at the Women in Defence Awards 2020. The Women in Defence Awards are to recognise the value and importance of women in defence as well as to provide inspiration for those currently serving and young women with Armed Forces...

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Former MPCT Volunteer Leads Way for Learners with Autism

Former MPCT volunteer staff, Alex Anderson, is leading the way for military applicants with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). A very polite, positive and driven young man, Alex had been in the RAF cadets since he was a young man and was set on joining the RAF as a career. Unfortunately, upon being diagnosed with Asperger...

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MPCT Observes ‘National Day Of Reflection’

On Tuesday 23rd March, one year after the country went into lockdown MPCT joined the nation in marking a  ‘National Day Of Reflection’. We took a minute’s silence to remember those that we have lost; we must all continue to support each other through the tough times ahead while looking forward to a better future....

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MPCT Maintains ISO Accreditations

In December 2020 MPCT received its annual surveillance visit from Alcumus ISOQAR to monitor compliance with our three previously achieved ISO accreditations – ISO 14001:2015, ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 27001:2013. We are pleased to say that the report found that not only have we maintained the standards required for compliance, but that no instances of nonconformance...

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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....

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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...

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Remembrance Day 2020 Booklet

As you would expect, Remembrance Day is an event very close to our hearts at MPCT and while we were not able to mark the occasion with our usual calendar of events in 2020, we still ensured that we paid our respects in every way we could. Today we take a look back to November...

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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...

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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’,...

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