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• Access to HE ( 8 Articles )
  Access to HE course listings.
• Access to HE General ( 2 Articles )
  

  General area for Access to HE General, including department photo galleries, staff & student profiles.

• Accounting ( 3 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …ACCOUNTING

  Career Facts and Figures

  The sector has undergone major transformations in recent years, with some retailers diversifying to compete for services traditionally provided by High Street banks, building societies and insurance providers. The sector employs over half a million people in the UK. London is the key investment centre, although financial jobs do exist in many larger cities and towns, in both the private and public sectors.

• Accounting News ( 1 Article )
• Adults General ( 5 Articles )
  

  General information for Adult Students

• Animal Care ( 6 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …ANIMAL CARE

  Facts and Figures

  You could work in:

  • kennels, catteries
  • animal sanctuaries
  • animal rescue centres
  • animal welfare charities such as the Blue Cross
  • veterinary practices.

  With experience, you may be able to progress to supervisor or manager, or become self-employed.

  You could also use your experience as a basis for moving into other animal care careers.

• Animal Care News ( 1 Article )
  

  Current news articles for the Animal Care area.

• Art and Design ( 4 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …ART AND DESIGN

  Career Facts and Figures

  In the UK, over 500,000 people work in this sector in total, with around 300,000 in craft work and 180,000 in design. There are opportunities for designers throughout the UK, especially in large cities and towns - 31 per cent are based in London. There are job opportunities at every entry level. Some entrants have few formal qualifications, but there is strong competition for jobs in this sector and many enter with specific art and design qualifications.

• Beauty & Spa Therapy ( 12 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in … BEAUTY & SPA THERAPIES 

  Beauty and Spa Therapies

  The Hairdressing and Beauty Therapy Industry Authority reports that there are more than 7,500 beauty therapy salons in the UK, and over 5,400 hairdressing salons that offer beauty treatments.

   

  You could be employed as a beauty therapist in a high street salon or beauty clinic, hospital, health spa, hotel, health farm or on a cruise ship, or choose to become self-employed, owning your own salon, working from home or travelling to clients' homes.

   

  You could develop your career by training to offer a wider variety of treatments, move into fashion, theatre or media make-up, progress to becoming a salon manager, or move into training.
• Business Admin ( 5 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in....BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

  Facts and Figures

  Over 4,933,000 people are employed in administration, business and office work, and this figure is predicted to rise. Around 32 per cent of employers report difficulty in recruiting skilled business and administration staff.

• Business Admin General ( 5 Articles )
  

  General area for Business Admin General, including department photo galleries, staff & student profiles.

• Business Admin News ( 1 Article )
  

  Current news articles for the Business Admin area.

• Catering & Hospitality News ( 1 Article )
  

  Current news articles for the Catering, Hospitality, Food Service and Event Planning area.

• Catering, Hospitality & Events General ( 1 Article )
  

  General area for Catering, Hospitality & Events General, including department photo galleries, staff & student profiles.

• Catering, Hospitality, Food Service and Event Plan ( 11 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …Catering, Hospitality, Food Service and Event Planning Courses

  Facts and Figures

  The industry employs over 2.5 million people throughout the UK. There are also opportunities to work overseas. Employers include:

  • hotels and guest houses offering accommodation from budget to luxury
  • restaurants, including themed restaurants, pub restaurants and fast food outlets
  • pubs, clubs and bars, including bar facilities in hotels and restaurants
  • theme parks, cinemas, museums, art galleries and leisure resorts
  • schools, colleges, hospitals, nursing homes, railways, airports and cruise ships.
• Catering/Cooking Leisure Courses ( 2 Articles )
  

  Section for Catering/Cooking Leisure containing Course Information.

• Child Care ( 4 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …CHILDCARE

  Facts and Figures

  Demand for qualified nursery nurses is high in both private and local authority nurseries. You can also find job opportunities overseas. As an experienced nursery nurse you could:

  • become a community nursery nurse
  • progress to nursery officer or manager – see the Nursery Manager profile
  • complete further training to move into related areas of work, such as nursing, teaching or social work.
• Cleaning and Support ( 1 Article )
  

  Facts and Figures

  The industry employs over 2.5 million people throughout the UK. There are also opportunities to work overseas. Employers include:

  • hotels and guest houses offering accommodation from budget to luxury
  • restaurants, including themed restaurants, pub restaurants and fast food outlets
  • pubs, clubs and bars, including bar facilities in hotels and restaurants
  • theme parks, cinemas, museums, art galleries and leisure resorts
  • schools, colleges, hospitals, nursing homes, railways, airports and cruise ships.
• Computing & Information Technology ( 10 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …Computing & Information Technology

  Facts and Figures

  More than 20 million people use computer technology or the internet every day at work in the UK, and over one million people work in IT. Job opportunities exist in all parts of the country and, as IT skills are international, opportunities to work abroad are fairly common.

• Computing & Information Technology General ( 2 Articles )
  

  General area for Computing & Information Technology General, including department photo galleries, staff & student profiles.

• Computing & IT News ( 1 Article )
  

  Current news articles for the Computing & IT Adult area.

• Construction ( 16 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in ….CONSTRUCTION

  Facts and Figures

  Employers throughout the UK range from large national and international construction groups, through medium-sized and small companies to self-employed individuals. The industry employs over 2.5 million people and is growing, needing an average of 87,000 new entrants each year. Currently there is a particular shortage of architects, technical engineers and managers, and of craftspeople in all trades, primarily due to the strength of the housing sector.

• Counselling ( 2 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …COUNSELLING

   

  Facts and Figures

  This sector employs around 1.6 million people. Demand for workers in many career areas is increasing, particularly those involving the care of children and older people. There are opportunities throughout the UK.

• Creative Writing ( 1 Article )
  

  Section for Creative Writing containing Programme Infomation.

• Creative Writing General ( 1 Article )
• Engineering ( 18 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …ENGINEERING

  Facts and Figures

  Around 1.5 million people work in engineering-related jobs for large and small-scale manufacturing companies, specialist engineering workshops, public utilities such as electricity companies, and product design and development companies. Skilled people are highly sought after and opportunities, especially for those with flexible skills or a strong grasp of new technology, are growing. Engineering jobs exist throughout the UK and abroad.

• Engineering General ( 1 Article )
  

  General area for Engineering General, including department photo galleries, staff & student profiles.

• Gas Training ( 2 Articles )
  

  St Helens College has been successfully delivering Gas training and assessing for over 20 years and has developed an excellent reputation within the industry.

  
  

  St Helens College delivers the ACS Nationally Accredited Certification Scheme for individual gas fitters. We deliver courses on a flexible basis throughout the year for your convenience. The Gas Training and Assessment team are highly qualified and have a wealth of industry expertise to enhance your learning experience.

  
  

  Students studying on a gas training programme at St Helens College will train in spacious and fully resourced workshops and carry out assessments in our specially designed training booths. The Gas training centre is located in at the Technology Campus, Pocket Nook St Helens and has amble parking space for students. In a recent external verifiers assessment report, the department was commended for its excellent facilities and training provision.

  

• Gas Training General ( 3 Articles )
  

  General area for Gass Training General, including department photo galleries, staff & student profiles.

• Hairdressing ( 8 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …HAIRDRESSING

  Facts and Figures

  
  Hairdressing 

  This industry is worth at least £2.6 billion to the UK economy each year. A career in hairdressing can offer you a world of opportunities. You could work as a hairdresser in salons throughout the UK, or find opportunities in hotels, hospitals and care homes, cruise liners and armed forces bases. Alternatively, you could offer a mobile service, travelling to clients' homes, rather than working in a salon. With experience, you could progress to jobs with more responsibility such as senior stylist or salon manager, or take appropriate further qualifications and move into teaching and/or NVQ assessing.

• Health & Safety ( 1 Article )
  

  Go for …HEALTH & SAFETY

  Facts and Figures

  Over 200 people are killed each year in accidents at work and more than one million people are injured. Over two million suffer illnesses caused by, or made worse by, their work. In order to address these problems, managers, supervisors and employees need to access appropriate Health and Safety training.

• Health & Social Care ( 5 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE

  Career Facts and Figures

  A total of around 2,879,000 people work in healthcare, with jobs available throughout the UK. The National Health Service (NHS) is the largest single employer and has over 300 different career areas. Other healthcare employers include private, charitable and voluntary organisations, local authorities, the Armed Forces and the prison service. There is a shortage of workers in some parts of the NHS. Most who work in the private sector have first undertaken training in the public sector.

• Health and Social Care News ( 1 Article )
  

  Current news articles for the Health and Social Care area.

• Landbased Industries ( 7 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …LANDBASED INDUSTRIES (Horticulture, Floristry and Conservation)

  Facts and Figures

  Over one million people are employed in the environmental and land-based sector. The sector is generally growing, but it is a popular area of work so there is usually a lot of competition for posts. Jobs are available throughout the UK and abroad, in both urban and rural areas.

• Landbased Industries News ( 1 Article )
  

  Current news articles for the Landbased Industries area.

• Languages ( 14 Articles )
  

  Go for it…..LEARN A LANGUAGE!

  Finding it difficult to communicate when abroad? Shy about trying to express yourself when on holiday? Looking for an answer? Learning a language has many obvious practical benefits and is also a way of finding out more about our European neighbours.

• Management ( 3 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …MANAGEMENT, PURCHASING, PERSONNEL & MARKETING

   

  Facts and Figures

   

  The Management, Purchasing, Personnel, and Marketing sectors offer adults a number of rewarding and lucrative career pathways, along with the opportunity to access a range of professional, industry specific, qualifications. College courses in these areas are held at St Helens Business School, a state of the art teaching and learning facility situated in the famous SmithKline Beecham ‘clocktower’ building.

• Maths & English ( 7 Articles )
  Section for Maths & English containing Course Information.
• Maths & English General ( 2 Articles )
  

  General area for Maths & English General, including department photo galleries, staff & student profiles.

• Media ( 1 Article )
  

  Go for a career in …MEDIA

  Facts and Figures

  Over 400,000 people work in film, TV, radio and photographic imaging. The printing industry employs around 200,000 people. Competition for many roles is intense.

  There are opportunities throughout the UK, although national newspapers, magazines, broadcasting companies and many publishing companies tend to be based in London. Freelancers and employees working on specific projects in media, photography and journalism may be required to travel anywhere in the UK, or even overseas, for work.

• Media News ( 1 Article )
  

  Current news articles for the Media area.

• Mental Health ( 1 Article )
  List of Progrom Information Sheets for Mental Health courses at St Helens College.
• Music Technology ( 1 Article )
  

  If music technology is your interest, then you won't fail to be impressed by the facilities which are located at the Town Centre Campus. Based in realistic working environments with equipment which is constantly updated, you will work on music performance skills, studio recording techniques and live sound engineering, as well as music theory and practice.

• Pathways to Employment ( 4 Articles )
  

  The new Future Skills Courses are ideal for individuals aged 19+ and unemployed (accessing JSA/ESA (WRAG)) that want to pursue a career in Health & Social Care, Introduction to Bar Skills,  Retail or Security Guarding.  The courses will be delivered at the Town Centre Campus and you will attend for a maximum of 15 hours per week, based on 2/3 days per week over a 3 or 4 week period.

  You will gain certificates to demonstrate your skills and knowledge and cover a variety of areas including an induction to the industry, customer service skills as well as sector specific qualifications.

  We have an experienced team that will help and support you in finding employment opportunities through links with local employers and partnerships.

• Performing Arts ( 3 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS

  Facts and Figures

  Many people are attracted to the idea of working in the performing arts. For the successful few, making their living as actors, musicians, singers and dancers, it can be a glamorous life. However, there are many more people working away from the spotlight, making sure performances run smoothly, and promoting artists and productions.

  It is rare to succeed in the performing arts based on creative talent alone. Determination and the ability to cope with rejection are key to surviving in the industry. Experience, either paid or unpaid, and useful contacts are essential. Those with experience of helping in school or college productions, local workshops, events and festivals may be at an advantage.

• Personnel ( 3 Articles )
  

  Personnel course listings.

• Playwork ( 1 Article )
  

  Playwork is a highly skilled profession that enriches and enhances childrens’ play. It takes place where adults support childrens’ play but it is not driven by prescribed education or care outcomes.

  Playworkers can be found in a range of settings: adventure playgrounds, play centres, after school clubs, holiday play-schemes and mobile play-schemes operating from buses and vans. Play rangers work in parks and open spaces and, in some areas, playworkers can be found in schools.

  
  Vision for Playwork

  
  SkillsActive (Playwork Sector Skills Council)

  
  ‘A skilled, qualified and developing play workforce, whose practice is underpinned by the Playwork Principles, who provide high quality, accessible play opportunities for children and young people’.

  Source: www.skillsactive.com/playwork

• Purchasing ( 5 Articles )
  

  Purchasing course listings.

• Science ( 2 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …SCIENCE

   

  Facts and Figures

  People in this sector are employed in a wide range of jobs, including research and development, scientific analysis, education, the media and administration. Careers are mainly at technician and professional levels, and most people in this sector specialise in a particular field, for example in ecology or forensic science.

• Sports ( 7 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …SPORTS

  Facts and Figures

  With a workforce of 371,800 people, working in the 176,000 businesses and organizations throughout the UK, sport is one of the largest sectors. There are 1.2 million coaches in the UK with an average of 73,086 job opportunities within the sector each year across the UK.

• Sports General ( 1 Article )
• Student Support Adults ( 7 Articles )
  Adult Student Advice and Guidance including contact details for Student Services.
• Supporting Learning ( 4 Articles )
  Section for Supporting Learning containing Course Information.
• Teaching ( 3 Articles )
  

  Section for Teacher Training containing Course Information.

• Teaching - Classroom Assistants ( 4 Articles )
  

  Go for a career as a . …TEACHING ASSISTANT

   

  Career Facts and Figures

  Teaching Assistants work throughout the UK in primary, secondary or special schools, either in a general role, or they may have responsibilities for a particular child (with a statement or additional educational needs). A key role of the Teaching Assistant is to help raise educational standards in the classroom, by providing support for the pupils, the teacher and the school. The demand for good teachings assistants is increasing all the time, as a result of the governments ‘Remodelling of the School Workforce’ agenda . There are currently around 150,000 teaching assistants in the UK.
  You could work as a teaching assistant in nursery, infant or junior schools, special schools, secondary schools or independent schools. With experience you may be able to progress to senior assistant or be assessed for Higher Level Teaching Assistant status. You could go on to train as a teacher if you meet the entry requirements which apply to all teachers.

• Teaching News ( 1 Article )
  

  Current news articles for the Teaching area.

• Travel Tourism General ( 2 Articles )
  

  General area for Travel & Tourism General, including department photo galleries, staff & student profiles.

• Travel, Tourism, Aviation & Cabin Crew ( 2 Articles )
  

  Section for Travel, Tourism, Aviation & Cabin Crew containing Course Information.

• Youth Work ( 5 Articles )
  

  Go for a career in …YOUTH WORK

   

  Facts and Figures

   

  Youth work skills are in great demand, and opportunities for qualified youth workers are expanding. In addition to employment within local authority youth services, the opportunities for employment in other sectors have increased hugely over the past few years. Youth workers are found working in other local authority departments such as leisure, arts and housing, health authorities, youth justice teams, and a range of voluntary organisations.