Past students are mentors
MORE than 50 former students of a college in Stockport have signed up to inspire today’s students to career confidence and academic success.
Cheadle and Marple College, based on Cheadle Road, Cheadle Hulme and Buxton Lane, Marple, is one of 400 state secondaries and colleges nationwide registered with the national education charity Future First to harness the experience of former students to motivate the current generation through ‘old school tie’ networks.
Alumni volunteering to support current students come from a range of careers including law, finance, architecture and engineering. The college wants to contact more former students in established professions and recent leavers in further education.
More than 180,000 former students across Britain have already signed up to stay connected with their old school or college.
They are inspiring young people as career and education role models, mentors or e-mentors, work experience providers, governors and fundraisers.
Ryan Jones, assistant principal, said, “A network of past students with all their valuable experience will be vital in helping us to broaden current students’ jobs horizons and equip them for the world of work.”
Former students should email ryan.jones@cmcnet. ac.uk or register with Future First at www. futurefirst.org.uk.