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The Baker Dearing Educational Trust supports UTCs and other educational organisations to provide high-quality, employer-led technical education that prepares young people for successful futures.
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October 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
💡Baker Dearing is supporting the Greater Manchester Baccalaureate by exploring how our UTC Sleeve initiative could deliver high-quality technical education for the city's young people.

Find out more about UTC Sleeves here: bakerdearing.org/work-with-us...
UTC Schools | UTC Sleeves | Baker Dearing Educational Trust
UTC Sleeves introduces specialist pathways in to secondary schools. UTC schools draw on the experience & successes of the UTC programme
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August 11, 2025 at 9:51 AM
👏 It has been an excellent year. We look forward to continuing to work with all UTCs and stakeholders in 2025-26! #thinkUTC
July 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🎤 Then in July we held what is so far one of the best-received occasions of our annual UTC summer conference and dinner. Skills Minister Baroness Jacqui Smith said in her keynote: “What makes UTCs special is your enduring partnership with local employers." bakerdearing.org/resources/ne...
Skills minister delivers keynote at UTC Summer Conference - Baker Dearing
Skills Minister Baroness Jacqui Smith today addressed an audience of UTC leaders at Baker Dearing's summer conference.
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July 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🩺 Later in May, we ran a hugely successful iteration of our UTC Health Tech Challenge at the University of Lincoln. Fourteen student teams from 8 UTCs across the country presented their designs for products that improve the quality of life for a specific demographic.
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Health Tech Challenge showcases student innovation - Baker Dearing
Baker Dearing proudly organised the grand final of the UTC Health Tech Challenge at the University of Lincoln's Isaac Newton Building on Wednesday 7 May.
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July 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🎊 In May, after intense lobbying from us, our supporters, and UTCs, the Department for Education announced that UTCs would be exempted from the Schools Bill's requirement that all schools deliver the national curriculum. bakerdearing.org/resources/ne...
Schools Bill: UTCs to be exempt from curriculum requirement
UTCs are to be exempted from the Schools Bill’s requirement to deliver the national curriculum, Skills Minister Baroness Smith has said.
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July 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🎞️ At the very end of 2024, to mark our founder Lord Baker's 90th birthday and the growing success of the UTC programme, we premiered the video 'Opening Doors: Lord Baker's Vision For University Technical Colleges.' www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Af...
Opening Doors: Lord Baker's Vision for University Technical Colleges
YouTube video by University Technical Colleges
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July 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
🤳 In November, we ran the first #thinkUTC week where UTCs and supporters contributed videos to our 'think UTC, think...' series saying whether a UTC made them think of amazing destinations, inclusive education, top-quality technical provision, or something else. bakerdearing.org/resources/ne...
#thinkUTC week to celebrate school-age technical education
#thinkUTC week, a national campaign running from 18th to 22nd November, has been announced by the Baker Dearing Educational Trust.
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July 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
👋 At the very start of the year, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves MP visited Silverstone UTC to mark Amazon’s announcement of an £8 billion investment in new UK data centres. bakerdearing.org/resources/ne...
Chancellor of the Exchequer visits Silverstone UTC
Rachel Reeves MP made her first school visit as Chancellor of the Exchequer to Silverstone UTC today to mark Amazon’s announcement of an £8 billion investment in new UK data centres.
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July 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM