Training firm aims for major milestone
| Posted: March 11, 2014
By Liz Parks
The Training Partnership Limited, based at theTorquay Innovation Centre, places students with employers in Exeter, Plymouth and Torbay.
The business, which was set up in 1996 by Jayne Stroud, works in partnership with 60 schools, colleges and businesses in Europe and hosts students from countries including Austria, Belgium, Spain, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Canary Islands, Australia, Brazil, Peru and Ghana.
Next week, the business is attending the Work Experience Travel Market and International Au Pair Association Annual Conference which is being held in London, where it will talk about its experiences of hosting students in Devon.
“It’s a fantastic opportunity to tell organisations from around the world about why their young people should be coming to Devon,” said business development director Nadine Stroud.
In the last 17 years, the business has placed more than 8,000 students on work placements ranging from marketing to pharmaceutical.
Finance director Wendy Williams said: “Our biggest competitors are in London but we’re taking them on and doing really well. Part of that is the quality of support, along with the high standard of work placements and social programmes we run. But it’s also about Devon being such a beautiful place that can offer a bit of everything – city life, countryside and beaches, all within such easy reach.”
As well as offering placements to overseas students, the company has now launched a programme for UK-based students seeking placements abroad.
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