Lee has been working at the Healthy Living Centre Community Café, run by Pebble Brook School, for the past year, on a supported work experience programme which is for some of their students with learning difficulties. Keerin from the Buckinghamshire Skills Hub team talked to Lee about his experience.

Bucks New University works closely with a number of NHS Trusts and independent care partners to provide clinical experience for our students. Joe is now working at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and in this video he talks about his Nursing placement experience with us and the transition from student nurse to qualified nurse.

Feeling that university wasn’t quite right for Isaac, he began to explore the apprenticeship option as the idea of ‘earning and learning’ was something that sparked his interest- particularly as he preferred to put theory into practice.

At school, apprenticeships didn’t get much of a mention. Most students at Kathryn’s sixth form went to university – UCAS application sessions were built into the curriculum and left little room for much else. Not knowing what she wanted to do exactly, she chose to study her favourite subject, Philosophy, and applied to some universities too.