Provider Focus
Clients
708 Apprentices
658 Train to Gain learners
451 employer clients
Location
Myerscough College
Bilsborrow
Preston
Lancashire
PR3 0JH
Contact
01995 642128
employerenquiries@myerscough.ac.uk
Myerscough College
One of the foremost land-based colleges in the country, Myerscough College provides high quality education and skills training for the land-based and sports sectors, throughout the North West and across the UK.
The college’s main site is in Bilsborrow, near Garstang, with other sites in Blackburn, Burnley, Manchester and Croxteth Country Park, Liverpool. Each offers a variety of land based and sports courses.
For more than a century, Myerscough College has developed strong relationships with numerous employers, from small businesses to multinational companies, and has a long tradition of excellence in delivering training to employees in the workplace.
Myerscough College’s up-to-date, industry-specific solutions are flexible, responsive and cost effective, delivering real performance improvements in the workplace for both employers and employees. Its portfolio of services includes customised training, apprenticeships, professional qualifications, short courses, work based learning opportunities and specialised online learning packages.
Services
Apprenticeships available at Levels 2, 3 and 4; Train to Gain contract; NVQs; Industry Legislative Short Courses & Incubator Services
Specialist sectors
Myerscough College is a specialist land-based and sports college delivering further and Higher Education.
Apprenticeships include Agriculture (Livestock Production), Animal Care, Arboriculture, Caravan Park Operations, Environmental Conservation, Equine, Floristry, Food Manufacturing, Horticulture, Information Technology, Landscaping, Production Horticulture, Service Engineering, Sportsturf, Sport & Recreation.
Strengths, achievements and expertise
- TQS Accreditation
- Expertise in conducting Organisational Needs Analysis
- 92% of employers would recommend Myerscough College
- 66% of bookings from employers are repeat business
- Flexible delivery of training, including workplace delivery for apprenticeships by highly qualified and industry experience assessors.
- Ofsted Grade for Care Standards Outstanding 2007/2008
- Employer engagement through employer forums, business breakfasts and industry specific training groups
- Bespoke training
- Mollnet - Myerscough online learning network
- Range of additional qualifications
- Skills & Enterprise Director, Paul Morton, is vice chairman of the Knowsley Provider Network and a director of the GMLPF
- The first College accredited to deliver NVQ Level 3 in Arboriculture.
- Successful partnership with Glendale Park Maintenance working with them to support their bid to achieve one of the largest park maintenance contracts with Liverpool City Council
