The Liverpool Schools shaping the future of the region’s young people by helping them become “work ready”

In the heart of Liverpool’s independent creative and digital district, the Baltic Triangle you will discover two schools that do things a little differently.

Liverpool Life Sciences UTC and The Studio School offer young people aged 14-19 a secondary education which is designed to give them the practical skills and real-world experience that they will need in their future careers.

With this emphasis on being prepared for work, the feel is more like a workplace, with lessons running from 9am - 4pm and sixth-formers expected to be dressed smartly and professionally.

The prominent schools - both under the Northern Schools Trust (NST) umbrella - provide a busy, stimulating environment and one of its mottos is ‘every day is an interview’.

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They have been awarded a large sum of money from the Ford Motor Company Fund, via Global Giving, as part of a wider investment to the end of 2025 to support Halewood and the wider Liverpool city region.

The funding will go towards three projects - provingindustry and education can partner together to shape the future of a region's young people.

Working in partnership with Liverpool Life Sciences UTC and the Studio School, funding will be directed to further develop project-based learning provision to be shared more widely across schools within the Northern Schools Trust and others in the wider Merseyside area.

This approach gives learners a unique set of tools to help them to become “work ready” - as they have gained a wide range of technical and transferable skills that are desired by an industry, but which are not traditionally taught as part of the standard national curriculum.

Working with Ford Fund and the