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UTC Reading students celebrate GCSE and technical qualification success

Year 11 students at UTC Reading are celebrating this morning after receiving their GCSEs and Level 2 technical qualifications. Students at UTC Reading study English, Maths and Science as core subjects and then specialise in either Engineering or Computer Science...

A Level and Level 3 students celebrate great results

Year 13 students are celebrating after picking up their A Level and Level 3 qualification results, securing them places on prestigious degree apprenticeships and university places. The school celebrated an overall positive set of results which is broken down...

Can we build it? Yes we can!

‘Can we build it? Yes we can!' said our Year 10s on Monday, 22 July, when tasked to scope, design and build their own bridges to a tight brief. Working with seven volunteers from Yondr Group, one of our Digital Futures Programme Partners, the students had to consider...

Student wins Arkwright Engineering scholarship

UTC Reading student, Hisham Hafeez, has been awarded a sought-after Arkwright Engineering scholarship. 15-year-old Hisham, who recently completed his GCSEs, competed against thousands of students to be in with a chance of winning the scholarship in a rigorous...

Young voices, big ideas

Students join Reading Youth Council to make young voices heard. With politics in the air more so than ever with a general election imminent, two students have decided to take their first steps into getting their voices heard and speaking up for their peers as members...

Driven student lands engineering apprenticeship

A driven Year 13 student is celebrating after landing a four-year degree apprenticeship at a national defence company. Alice Greibig will start a four-year Level 6 Manufacturing Engineering degree apprenticeship this August, studying two days a week at Newbury...

Mission Space Lab students achieve Flight Status

UTC Reading’s A Level Computer Science students working on a program to run scientific experiments from space have achieved Flight Status in a Europe-wide competition – meaning their program will run on Astro Pis installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in...

Discovering the ‘why’ in our careers programme

A student who is making the most of all the opportunities UTC Reading can offer is marking another achievement, having become a certified Careers Ambassador for the school. Faris Kadeb, who is studying Maths, Physics and Engineering, is an active member of the school...

Digital Futures Programme coming to UTC Reading

ALET’s award-winning education Digital Futures Programme, designed to give students a head start into digital careers, is rolling out to all three of the Trust’s University Technical Colleges – UTC Reading, UTC Swindon and UTC Oxfordshire – following its...