Summer 2017 Our visit STC, Best A date for to the Gulf in Country your diary Vice Chair of Governors and Principal Our training has been A new date has been set for visit the Gulf as part of engagement recongnised by the Times South Shields Marine visits with GCC companies. Education Supplement (TES). School’s annual Shipping Day. Contents Page Article Page Article Page Article A Welcome message An important date 09. New degree 01 from the Principal 07 for your diary 16 course announced 01. Nine meetings, 05. Record numbers 10. Marine school 02 five days, four countries 08 for refresher training 18 welcomes new staff 02. College merger 06. Cadet honoured 11. Charity fund helps 04 is confirmed 09 with top award 19 stranded mariner 03. Donations welcomed 07. College is named 12. A little help 05 from GulfMark 10 the best in the country 20 goes a long way 04. Cadets’ success 08. Chief Executive 06 celebrated 14 receives top award Key Contacts Jeremy Gough Michael Speers John Roach Simon Ashton Kevin Lund Marie Flatman Head of School Head of School Assistant Assistant Head of School Head of School Simulation, Deck & Marine Offshore Principal Principal Higher Education FE/EOOW/ Senior Marine Safety Training Marine Engineering Marine Operations Marine Engineering Workshops Call us on:0191 427 3772 /SouthShieldsMarineSchool or Email:[email protected] @ssmarineschool /south-shields-marine-school www.stc.ac.uk South Shields Marine School Leading Lights - Summer 2017 1 Welcome to the latest edition of Leading Lights The Summer 2017 edition of Leading Lights highlights the merger between South Tyneside College, which operates South Shields Marine School, and Tyne Metropolitan College. The merger consultation process began in 2016, and will be completed on August 1, 2017, with the merged college name being Tyne Coast College. While our existing brands and names will remain, we firmly believe merger will make us bigger, better and stronger. It will bring no change to our commitment to ensuring that our first- class maritime resources - in staffing and equipment - fully meets your expectations. Tyne Coast College’s family of brands includes South In addition to 11-16 year olds, the Maritime Educational Shields Marine School, South Tyneside College – Foundation (MEF) is supporting an initiative to promote Professional and Vocational, Tyne Metropolitan College, the Merchant Navy in junior schools, and we are working Queen Alexandra Sixth Form College, Career College with Ridgeway Primary Academy in South Shields, where North East – which recruits for the marine pathway from children are designing, operating and testing self-built the age of 14 - and the Marine and Offshore Safety vessels. On completion of this project, we will showcase Training Centre. Tyne Metropolitan College, established the excellent videos created to the MEF trustees and in 2005, has developed a reputation for high-quality yourselves, and provide a full update in the next edition of education and training. It is a leading STEM provider, Leading Lights. We have also engaged our own games with specialisms in engineering, sports science and design students to re-create the internal views of a mathematics. Queen Alexandra Sixth Form College offers wheelhouse, engine room, galley and a cabin, to provide a wide range of A level courses, with a 99 per cent pass an insight to visiting schoolchildren through the use of rate for 2016. This enhanced college will allow us to grow virtual reality headsets, ensuring a prominent showcase our internal progression routes from age 14 to 18 into the to the maritime industry. maritime sector, in turn increasing the range and number of prospective applicants that you can draw from and I am also delighted to inform you that some of your interview, to meet your expanding recruitment targets. students have been working hard and dedicating time to fundraise, through various activities, for our South Shields Marine School is also working hard Dr Winterbottom Charitable Fund, and pages 19-21 with new school partners to broaden the appeal of showcase some of the students that this fund has the Merchant Navy, and fully support the Government helped. We will be highlighting your cadets’ efforts Maritime Growth Strategy recommendations. in the next edition of Leading Lights. Gary Hindmarch, Principal of South Shields Marine School 2 South Shields Marine School - www.stc.ac.uk 01 Nine meetings over five days, in four different countries… In January, David Byrne, Vice Chair of Governors at South Tyneside College, and Gary Hindmarch, Principal of South Shields Marine School, had a busy schedule, visiting several maritime companies in the mid-East Gulf region, as part of engagement visits with GCC companies. As well as providing updated information of their students’ progression and achievement, they updated companies on the impending merger between South Tyneside College and Tyne Metropolitan College, in North Tyneside, which will result in the corporate name changing from South Tyneside College to Tyne Coast College. Gary said: “We met two new clients, who are creating new maritime training courses, in association with South Tyneside College, that will meet specific local training needs. It is hoped that a joint venture will enrol new students in the GCC region from 2018. “In Abu Dhabi, we were shown the new ADNOC building, where the 39th floor has meeting rooms where staff are given 39 minutes to complete their meeting, a lesson to us all.” DP World, Dubai is creating new training programmes to develop their Pilots. All companies were advised on the impending move of the MCA Tyne to within the college buildings. Leading Lights - Summer 2017 3 “In Abu Dhabi, we were shown the new ADNOC building, where the 39th floor has meeting rooms where staff are given 39 minutes to complete their meeting.” Gary Hindmarch, Principal of South Shields Marine School 4 South Shields Marine School - www.stc.ac.uk 02 South Tyneside College and Tyne Metropolitan College merger South Shields Marine School off-site e-learning platforms, and Merger is expected to result in a higher investing further in staff development quality and financially stronger college, is to enter an exciting new programmes to underpin a broader that can better deliver improved skills era after South Tyneside and expanded curriculum. for students locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. College confirmed it is We further hope to improve links with to form a new college, schools across the Tyne Coast College The new college will work to a three- covering both sides of area where, working together with year plan, focussing on curriculum Maritime UK, we will respond to the innovation and the creation of new the River Tyne. Maritime Growth Strategy to improve routeways to skills. awareness of the maritime sector In August, South Tyneside College and grow pre-cadet and cadet This will include being a specialist one- will join Tyne Metropolitan College, enrolment numbers. stop shop for a breadth of workforce which has its main campus in North development requirements, including in Shields, North Tyneside, to create Our second site, the Marine and apprenticeships - a current Government Tyne Coast College. Offshore Safety Training Centre in South priority area - across a range of Shields, which provides the most realistic employment sectors. The combined college will deliver training environment possible for people provision to around 15,000 full and working in offshore industries, will also part-time students a year. continue its current operations. Ratified by the colleges’ governing Dr Lindsey Whiterod OBE, the new From August 1, you will bodies in April, after a six-week public CEO of Tyne Coast College and former consultation, it has the support of the FE notice our new corporate Chief Executive of South Tyneside Commissioner Richard Atkins CBE and College, said: “Merger opens up many name on invoices, but be the councils of north and south Tyneside. possibilities to broaden our provision reassured that the brand, The marine school, which has and further deliver our expertise. staffing and physical undergone multi-million pound facilities “We are renowned across the world for resources at South Shields investment over the past six years, will the high quality of provision we provide Marine School, will be continue to deliver its existing first-class and for our exceptional facilities and provision from its current site. retained to ensure you are lecturing staff, and this will continue to provided with the quality Plans for the marine school include be the case. increasing the capacity of our training and range of training you “I’m delighted that the fundamental way resources to meet the expected expect from a national the marine school operates will remain growth in maritime world trade by unchanged, and merger will only add to and international leader 2020, growing and developing our the expert provision we can deliver.” of maritime provision. Leading Lights - Summer 2017 5 03 Generous donation from GulfMark will aid students’ safety training Students at South Shields Marine Our marine engineering and electrical engineering department also received propeller blades, controllable School will benefit from thousands pitch propeller assembly and two auto transformers. of pounds worth of new safety These are going to be installed in the workshops equipment, thanks to GulfMark. and made operational in order to train cadets and senior students. GulfMark, which provides marine transportation services, donated a rescue boat, 24 life rafts, Michael Speers, Head of School at MOST, 18 sets of breathing apparatus and a thruster the marine school’s Marine and Offshore Safety unit to South Shields Marine School. Training Centre, said: “We are extremely indebted to GulfMark for their generosity. We’re hoping that Derek Bain, GulfMark’s Head of Procurement has we can develop further training using these items.