EDUCATION AND TRAINING
The quiet corner of Gloucestershire helping to lead the country’s technological revolution
There has never been a better time for Gloucestershire’s science and technology businesses and employees of the future. In a quiet corner of the county, lies a ground-breaking development that it is inspiring minds and teaching skills for the 21st century. Just as in a post-second world war era of discovery in technological advancements and human accomplishments, the world is changing and the skills and knowledge we need is too. In one of his most famous speeches, made ahead of the quest to reach the moon in the 1960s, US President John F Kennedy spoke of breaking new ground.
By doing that in a picturesque part of our beautiful county, with easy access to the town of Berkeley and the M4 and M5 motorways, it does its bit to spark the Gloucestershire economy. The unique nature of the park allows for a broad range of buildings to be used for suitable office, workshop, laboratory and mid-tech space requirements. It prides itself in providing space for those things that can’t be accommodated elsewhere. Those things that need to be done, not ‘because they are easy, but because they are hard.’ It is on the park that the SGS College and Berkeley Green University Technical College (UTC) are inspiring and providing skills to the next batch of engineers and scientific minds. The park is also home to what is hoped to be the ground-breaking Bloodhound Land Speed Record project, and the fantastic education project that surrounds it. The University of Gloucestershire has its C11 Cyber Security and Digital Innovation Centre on site. Green Fuels, an innovator and producer in the advanced world of biofuels also operates from the Berkeley site, from where it sells and supplies products across the world. And where once one of Britain’s nuclear power stations stood, Cavendish Nuclear now operate as one of the
“We set sail because there is new knowledge to be gained,” President Kennedy said. “We choose to do these things, not because they are easy but because they are hard. “Because that goal will serve to organise and measure the best of our energies and skills.” And the Gloucestershire Science and Technology Park is bringing that 60-year-old mantra to life, by aiding the county and region’s energy to make similar advances. The GSTP is a strategic economic asset for Gloucestershire. It is publicly-owned with all rent and investments ploughed into improving the training of young people.
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