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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 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...

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...

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...

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’,...

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,...

Former MPCT Learner Mr Scott Wamboi is about to embark on the next stage of an already successful journey. Mr Wamboi joined MPCT Cardiff in February 2018, he was nominated to work in head office after a delay in his application for the Royal Marines. Scott continued to prepare himself for a successful career in...

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...

On behalf of everyone at MPCT, we would like to pay tribute to Captain Sir Tom Moore. Sir Tom’s inspirational qualities are an example to us all.  He lived his life with honour until the very end.  Many people have already acknowledged how he encouraged the nation through his amazing NHS Charity fundraising activity in...