Welcome to my April blog. This month’s theme will continue with education and in particular this month we will cover work placements/experience, sandwich years and graduate schemes. Any employer will tell you that alongside your degree or other qualification, some form of relevant experience will go a great way to helping you become successful in […]

March is now upon us and the race season is nearly here!  For this month’s blog my topic of discussion (as stated last month) was to cover the differences between studying HE at a college or at a university. Picking where you want to go is a big decision and one which you must […]

Welcome back to the blog, January is over already and we have a relatively short month in February. This month I am going to carry on where I left off in January and will cover course choice before and after undergraduate study and study modes. When you leave school at 16, there are many options […]

So it’s December and the motorsport season is pretty much finished with the F1 title going down to the wire with an exhilarating final race at Interlagos in Brazil with Vettel taking his 3rd championship in a row. Pedrosa wrapped up the Moto GP title as Casey Stoner said farewell in his retirement race whilst […]

Welcome to my December Christmas blog and the last one of 2013. The first term/semester is nearly over for motorsport students and I expect everyone is looking forward to a break before it all starts again in January. This month I am going to discuss the areas of progressing from FE to HE from a […]

The Bridgwater College Motorsport Team took first place in the final race of the championship earlier this month at Castle Combe, Wiltshire, making them the 2013 Castle Combe Sports & GT Champions!! The driver of the car was Josh Smith, the author of our Fundamentals of Motorsport Engineering book and also Programme Manager for Motorsport […]

        Welcome to my November blog, we are now back from half term and racing towards Christmas. Some great news first is to announce that Bridgwater College Motorsport Team who were supported this year by Nelson Thornes have won the Castle Combe Sports> Championship for 2013. This is a great result for […]

Welcome to my October blog. The main topic for this month is progression within education for students and careers advice. With the new year well under way at schools, colleges and universities, some attention needs to be made towards your plans for next year if you are coming to the end of your current course […]

An investigation by FE Week found the car servicing firm advertising “multiple” 16 to 18 vacancies “nationwide” on the government’s National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) website.           But the advert, which said trainees would do a “maximum of 39 hours a week Tuesday to Saturday” for up to 24 weeks, was removed […]

        Our latest motorsport book, Smith’s Fundamentals of Motorsport Engineering was the sponsor of the Formula Student supplement in Motorsport News this summer.