The purpose of our UTC education is to ensure students are career and life ready.
The Student Leaver Profile (SLP) was collaboratively designed by staff, students, parents, industry partners and community members and puts our students’ career and life readiness and the heart of everything we do.
Recognising that becoming career and life ready is multi-faceted, the SLP values:
- Academic and Technical Knowledge and Understanding – Students at UTC South Durham are supported to meet their potential and beyond in their academic and technical qualifications.
- Professional and Career Experiences (PaCE) – The experiences that allow students to understand how their qualifications and skills come together in the workplace. Students engage in these experiences in every aspect of their time at UTC South Durham, but particularly through our PaCE curriculum and industry projects.
- Core Skills – a set of 6 core skills valued and defined collaboratively. We know that our industry partners want employees who can effectively Communicate, Collaborate, Reflect, Persevere, Organise themselves and operate with Respect. We support our students to develop these skills both through our curriculum delivery and through our Crew programme.
