Mission

‘Delivering outstanding technical training and assessment, connecting industry and education’

Values

To innovate and inspire;

Working closely with our clients, we incubate information, generate ideas and encourage innovative solutions in the technology and service industries. We aspire to inspire generations of young engineers through high quality education to improve the engineering industry through innovation and imagination.

be influential and respected;

We partner respected leaders in the engineering community to provide our students with a first-class environment. By developing outstanding partnerships our mission is to positively influence local and national strategies and standards for technical training and assessment in industry.

be effective and efficient;

We design outstanding training and assessment programmes, and deliver them effectively in a tailored fit to meet and exceed our clients’ immediate and developing needs.

The Engineering College is supported by the European Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) for the delivery of training in key areas such as Apprenticeships and Traineeships. The Engineering College acknowledges the support and funding it receives from ESFA.

The Engineering College is supported by the European Social Fund (ESF) on key projects relating to training and investment in training facilities that enhance the building and the college service offer.

The Engineering College is proud to be a member of the GTA Network, working with other GTAs to develop a dynamic and high quality curriculum., successful training programmes and benchmarking against some excellent training providers.

Based on over 25 years’ of leading practice, the Investors in People Standard is a body that sets standards against excellent people management. The Standard is underpinned by a rigorous assessment methodology and a framework which reflects the very latest workplace trends, essential skills, and effective structures required to outperform in any industry.

In 2015, The Engineering College was first awarded Investors in People Gold Standard and joined the top 7% of companies in the UK with this status. In 2018, we were subject to another full inspection where the college was once again awarded with Gold Status under the 6th Edition Standard. Our team were praised for clearly defined vision, purpose and core values, a demonstrable commitment to employee engagement, a learning & development strategy that is aligned to business imperatives and designed to build the capability and flexibility of the workforce and a continued focus on high performance with robust and effective processes in place for capturing and analysing performance data across a range of indicators.

The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) is an independent engineering society, headquartered in central London that represents over 120,000 mechanical engineer members across a number of sectors, including aerospace, biomedical, energy, automotive and construction. IMechE have been at the heart of mechanical engineering since 1847.

The Engineering College recognise one ‘star student’ each year deserving of the IMechE ‘Most Approved’ apprentice award and have presented the award at the college’s annual ceremony for the last five years, recognising some fantastic apprentices from around the region.

The Matrix Standard is the international quality standard for organisations that deliver information, advice and/or guidance (IAG). Either as their sole purpose or as part of their service offering. The matrix Standard is the Department for Education’s (DfE) standard for ensuring the quality of the delivery of high-quality information, advice and guidance. The DfE supports the matrix Standard as the quality framework for accrediting information, advice and guidance contracts including the National Careers Service, its subcontractors and other services delivered on behalf of the Education Skills Funding Agency It helps providers to improve their services by benchmarking against best practice and it offers accreditation to those that meet the full standard.

The Engineering College were last accredited in January 2020, where the team were credited for dynamic, forward thinking and empowering leadership, a targeted personal learner support programme, which includes the delivery of non-engineering skills and knowledge, such as British Values, Safeguarding and Equality and Inclusion. Relationships with employers and key schools are “extremely effective” and the college has “very strong” partnerships at national, regional and local levels.

The Engineering College’s most recent Ofsted inspection in June 2017, saw The Engineering College maintain a ‘Good’ status (Grade 2) overall for training, with acknowledgements made to Equality and Diversity, working partnerships, and learning resources which are used effectively to support learners.

The Welding Institute is a professional engineering institution, meaning that we are able to register engineers and technicians globally into the Institute. The Welding Institute is the leading professional institution for the registration of welding and joining engineers. However, we also offer registration to all engineers, regardless of your technical background. 

TWI are a licensed member of the Engineering Council which allows TWI to assess Members to nationally register as professional engineers and technicians. This also means that TWI can nominate and support eligible Members to become registered with the Engineering Council. The Welding Institute also serve as a voice of the industry, providing authoritative, respected guidance to statutory bodies such as the British Standards Institution, the Engineering Council and even the UK government. 

The Engineering College were accredited as a CSWTO (Certification Scheme for Welder Training Organisations) and named as the Merseyside branch following this in 2017, hosting TWI for events and training on Merseyside. The Engineering College is proud to be working in partnership with TWI and is able to deliver a number of programmes as a recognised CSWTO. (For more information about these programmes, visit Commercial Courses)