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The SSG Education & Training VISION is to help people get skilled and achieve more through an innovative and diverse approach to educational learning, personal development, and professional progression.

We are proud to work alongside local employers, agencies and authorities across Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Northants to provide a range of skills development courses that are closely aligned with the Local Skills Improvement Plan and all designed to support you in reaching your skills and employment goals!

Who can access our courses and what is the cost?

We are able to provide fully funded courses for anyone over the age of 19 years old who is not currently in education, employment or training and our Maths, English and Digital Skill provision is funded for all 19+ even if you are employed. 

 

If you aren’t sure if you are eligible, or if you are a work coach and aren’t sure if you have an eligible candidate, contact us today and our friendly team will complete a quick eligibility check. 

What can you expect from an SSG course?

Our courses are interactive, engaging and most importantly active in their intent of helping to move you closer towards the jobs market OR to upskill to improve your chances of career progression. Although skill development is a serious subject, we ensure that all of our provision is genuinely good fun, so we challenge our tutors to ensure that all of our provision is exactly that – after all life is serious enough as it is! 

Our Courses

Our Adult Education Courses are split into 3 stages for ease of reference. Individuals can start with us within any stage depending on their personal needs and goals.


All of our courses come in different shapes, sizes and
delivery styles to ensure we have something that is suited to everyone. To find out more about any of our courses and find out the next available start date simply schedule a call with a member of our friendly Information, Advice & Guidance team by clicking below. 

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Stage 1 - Personal Development Courses

Courses within this stage are designed to support you as an individual to identify or build on skills that you have personally such as but not restricted to confidence, wellbeing, health and communication. Skills that once developed are sure to put you in a more positive position to take on your next challenge.

Stage 2 - Professional Development Courses

Courses within this stage are designed to support you to develop skills or gain qualifications that employers have told us that are most important for them in relation to their new hires and will enhance your CV.

Stage 3- Work ready courses

Courses within this stage are designed alongside employers and will often see us working in direct partnership with an employer to develop or deliver the courses. At the end of the course you will have submitted an application and be supported into interview or where on a self employment course be ready to take the net step of starting your own business.

Cross Stage - Core Skills Course

In addition to our 3 pathway stages we also offer a range of core skill programmes and qualifications that are suitable for anyone in any stage of their journey. These are always linked to an accredited qualification and include Maths, English and Digital Skills.

Our Tutors & Support Staff

Our tutors are fantastic, compassionate and engaging people and are here to help. We recruit our tutors based on their individual traits and work with them to develop and gain the accredited teaching qualifications required to deliver our courses. We firmly believe that by developing our own tutoring teams we are able to provide our groups with access to tutors that really understand what it is like to be an adult learner and have real experience of working in sectors or being in the jobs market.

 

 

Choosing the right course for you & identifying additional needs

Our courses are interactive, engaging and most importantly active in their intent of helping to move you closer towards the jobs market OR to upskill to improve your chances of career progression. Although skill development is a serious subject, we ensure that all of our provision is genuinely good fun, so we challenge our tutors to ensure that all of our provision is exactly that – after all life is serious enough as it is!

Accessing Our Courses

All of our blended online courses will require you to have access to a computer or tablet that is connected to the internet. If you have access issues in relation to equipment or internet our information, advice and guidance team will be able to support you. We have access to data packages as part of our partnership with the Good Things Foundation which we can allocate based on a simple application process to support your course.

 

All online courses use a combination of Microsoft Teams and google Classroom platforms – all courses will have a pre course briefing and any learner that is not confident with online access will be provided with additional 1:1 support to ensure you are confident and able to log on for your first day.

 

 

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The SSG Alumni

Once you enrol with SSG you will become part of our SSG community. We are here to help and support you when you need us. We offer a range of educational programmes and courses for those aspiring towards the workplace, re-entering employment, or upskilling within an existing career.

Whether you are here for a short pre-employment course, or engaging in one of our longer programmes, the message stays the same.  

 

As an SSG ambassador, you are part of a community that can help you take action, get skilled and achieve more. Together we are stronger, better and more empower, so it is important to use this to your advantage to ensure we can support you in reaching your full potential. 

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What do you get as part of the Alumni?

  • Free monthly information advice and guidance sessions. Join us on a live and interactive session to support your personal development. Each month our team will deliver a different theme linked to personal and career development - come and find out about what employers want, update your CV or learn about a new industry.

  • Sign up for our newsletter - Read all about our fantastic SSG community and how we are supporting our people. Look out for our exclusive Alumni section that provides information on priority access to support and up and coming courses.

  • Become a volunteer - You are uniquely placed to volunteer with SSG helping us to make a difference and promote our services. As a volunteer you could:

  • Become an Alumni Ambassador

  • The opportunity to talk/share your SSG journey with potential students during open evenings/events

  • Become a mentor and use your knowledge and experience to help support others

The Testimonials

Candidate completed a Business Admin Course October 2024
"Great support by all tutors in SSG but the most amazing support I received was from Tim, Tori, the sports staff, my first business teacher, Matthew and Emma. I have severe Tourettes syndrome which they supported me with. The course helped me with knowing how a business works and how to identify problems."
Candidate completed a Step Into Work CourseOctober 2024
"I am very satisfied with the support provided by my Tutor, Joanna, and the course Mentor, Balve. Before each main tutor session, we had a Mentor session with Balve, during which we could ask questions related to coursework or seek general support for the course. Both Joanna and Balve were very supportive. I felt comfortable reaching out to either of them, whether during the sessions or via email or Google Classroom outside of the sessions. Additionally, both Joanna and Balve offered one-on-one Teams meetings for individual support for the course if required. While I personally didn’t need individual support during the course, it was reassuring to know that it was available. I felt respected, valued and treated fairly by my tutor Joanna and mentor Balve. For example, during the course, when I asked questions - both in the mentor session and the main tutor session - Joanna / Balve listened fully to my questions and provided clear explanations in a respectful manner, without ever making me feel silly for asking. This made me feel respected and valued, and I felt comfortable asking (and answering) questions, without worrying if they might sound like 'stupid' questions.This course gave me lots of valuable information about job searching and application, and effective interview techniques, with this knowledge I now feel more confident applying for jobs. As part of the course, we had to create a CV and cover letter, tailoring it to a specific job description. I chose to tailor mine for a job which I found advertised on Indeed, I then applied for the job using the CV & cover letter that I had created, which resulted in me securing an interview with the employer. Along with the information I have learnt during this course, interacting with the tutor, mentor and fellow students during the course has increased my overall confidence levels. Also, having the routine of the daily sessions has helped me with my time management skills.
Candidate completed a Wellbeing4Work Course October 2024
"I feel the support was fantastic every step of the way. Jeremy (the tutor) not only was extremely respectful but so empathetic and understanding. With so much insight! I felt so comfortable sharing my own experiences and insights and felt really heard and valued.This course and Jeremy’s help has made me really understand how the brain jeopardises our daily life and I can honestly say learning coping mechanisms and exercises from this course is helping me no end daily! And helping me with my son too! Bite size amounts of the work packs done at a time was really helpful and I didn’t get too overwhelmed. I feel the entire course run so smoothly and I enjoyed every session I can’t quite believe it’s been 9 weeks and it’s finished! I wish to carry on learning about mental health and wellbeing I plan to enrol on a course after Christmas to get a level 3 and train to be a mental health nurse. I would like to just take a moment to express how amazing Jeremy is as a tutor on this course. He made us all feel at ease he took it at the paces we all needed and really made the whole course enjoyable and informative at the same time. I have thoroughly enjoyed every session and can’t wait to help others learn these healthier ways of coping in the future. So a huge thank you to Jeremy and all of you at SSG for allowing me to enrol on this course."
Candidate completed a Step into Self Employment Course October 2024
"My experience of this course was exceptional. Mike and Balve were so passionate and engaging. I found the structure of the course was everything that I needed in terms of the modules required to succeed in self employment and the openness showed to support me personally, and my fellow attendees, that enabled me to understand different perspectives when building my business plan. Personally, I was overwhelmed with the knowledge and experience that Mike shared. This gave me the confidence to do something that at 63 years I would never have considered starting a business when all my working life has been supporting customers working directly for companies. It was also great how Mike and Balve brought me closer to seeking support from my fellow attendees challenges that helped me reflect on my own priorities. If I had one learning that has sustained me personally it was “Eat the Frog”."