Bridgwater & Taunton College

Bridgwater & Taunton College (BTC) has strategically placed itself as the region’s foremost provider for technical and professional training, with its recent Ofsted inspection awarding the College Outstanding in all areas. BTC works with stakeholders that include 1500 employers plus industry specialists, community organisations and awarding bodies to support the national skills agenda. Our innovative, accredited and bespoke training programmes are designed with and for businesses to meet their current and future workforce needs.

This is something the College does exceptionally well, leading the field for employer engagement and with a reputation for excellence that has enabled it to recruit, select and train entire new workforces for

major companies, both regionally and nationally, including EDF Energy, Hinkley

Point C, National Grid and Wessex Water. Our award-winning training is trusted by leading employers to deliver results. The college’s work within this complex stakeholder environment has resulted in the development and delivery of programmes for critical skills, as well as investment at a national level.

Such investments include BTC’s flagship National College for Nuclear to support the UK’s nuclear renaissance, its Construction Skills and Innovation Centre which was designed to deliver construction skills

training for major infrastructure projects and its Welding Centre of Excellence which will deliver the highly technical welding skills required for nuclear.