Monthly Archives: August 2021

News, Training News

Halt the silver talent drain with midlife reviews says Punter Southall Aspire CEO

New research reveals that adults aged 55 and over are at highest risk of being left behind when it comes to workplace training – making their skillsets less relevant and these individuals less employable.

The research, from City & Guilds Group[i] found that people aged 55+ are the least likely to have undertaken formal workplace training in the last five years, with only half (53%) having done so. This compares to 67% of 35–54-year-olds and 83% of 18–34-year-olds.

Steve Butler, Chief Executive at Punter Southall Aspire is an author of several business books on age diversity in the workplace. He says employers must stop neglecting the over 55s and invest in their training and coaching as they still have a significant contribution to make.

Steve says, “One in three employees will be over 50 by 2025[ii]. They make up an important part of the workforce and have vital skills and experience employers want to retain. Companies should be focusing on employees at all stages of their working lives, and not forget that older workers benefit from training and development to keep their skills up to date so they can continue working for as long as they wish.

“Conducting midlife career reviews with employees in their 40s and 50s to discuss career plans, health and wellbeing and their financial goals is simply good practice. It helps employees plan the second phase of their career, and employers to understand how they can best be supported. This includes discussing what training they might need, as well as the working patterns and employee benefits that are needed.”

“An effective midlife review can prolong a career and mean the last ten or twenty years of a person’s working life is their most productive and rewarding.”

Steve books include, ‘Manage the Gap: Achieving success with intergenerational teams,’ published in 2019 and Midlife Review: A guide to work, wealth and wellbeing, co-authored with writer Tony Watts OBE, published last year to give business leaders, managers and employees guidance on supporting ‘midlife’ workers.

For more information visit: www.psaspire.com

News

Born Social hire creative strategist from Amsterdam agency

Award winning social media agency, Born Social, has appointed creative strategist, Joe Jordan.

Joe joins Born Social from Amsterdam based media company, Dept Agency, where he held the role of senior creative, leading creative work for global brands including: Netflix, JBL, Accell Group and Uber/Uber Eats. In 2020, he received two Lovie Awards for his work on the ‘Raise The Bar’ social-first campaign for American audio manufacturer, JBL’s new soundbar range. While at Dept Agency, Joe helped launch a new line of eco-friendly streetwear Dept Apparel.

Born Social’s Executive Creative Director & Partner, Paddy Smith, says “We’re super excited to have Joe join the team. He brings some excellent experience and heavyweight creativity to the table. I can’t wait to see what he can do.”

 Commenting on his new role at Born Social, Joe says: “I’m buzzed to be joining the exciting young team at Born Social. Many agencies claim to get social but at Born, you can really feel it’s embedded in the agency’s DNA. I can’t wait to get cracking.”

News

Securing the hybrid data centre

Written by Ian Porteous, Regional Director, Security Engineering, UK&I at Check Point Software Technologies

Against the backdrop of the rise of the remote workforce and the growing prevalence of sophisticated attacks such as ransomware, zero day malware and supply chain attacks, CISOs have been forced to rethink their security architecture. Today, with the need for distributed applications to support their business and security needs, organisations are leveraging hybrid data centres and security architectures.

A hybrid data centre combines on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure with orchestration that allows data and applications to be shared between them over the network, enabling organisations to experience the capabilities and benefits of both. Hybrid data centres span public and private clouds and on-premise environments, and organisations that have adopted this approach need to ensure cybersecurity resilience, security visibility and ease of security management across the entire architecture.

 

No longer just the data centre, but also the cloud

Ultimately, the differing natures of the on-premise data centre and cloud means that organisations need to ensure security and operational parity across the entire architecture. When organisations have their own data centre architecture, it means this has been developed over a long period of time and the security controls they have in place are mature and work very well. However, when they move inside the public cloud, teams need to be aware of the shared responsibility model when it comes to securing assets. While cloud providers may provide some degree of security and have performance agreements offering some shared culpability, at the end of the day, organisations are still responsible for the data, and cannot be absolved from legal or other ramifications in the event of a cybersecurity incident.

Migrating services very quickly to the cloud can also invariably create a less resilient environment because of the specific security requirements of the cloud. Even a minute change made by the provider or the organization can affect its security posture. For example, when a business creates a data base server instance in the cloud that has direct access to the Internet, this puts the data at risk of exposure. Cloud security posture management is key, and having visibility into where the data is residing and the traffic crossing the cloud environment is important.

 

Effectively securing the hybrid data centre

So what should organisations consider when looking at solutions to secure their hybrid data centre? Here are six factors to take into consideration:

  • Security for hybrid data centers must be unified and offer a single interface for monitoring and managing the security of multi-cloud and on-premises assets.
  • As organizations adopt DevOps, they need security that can keep pace. This requires support for automation, including integration with CI/CD pipelines, programmatic management, automated incident response workflows, and dynamic updates that eliminate the need for humans in the loop.
  • Hybrid data centers are complex ecosystems, requiring deep and granular visibility and security management. Securing these environments requires the ability to perform in-depth traffic inspection including tailored threat intelligence, content, code and image analysis, monitoring user and app interactions, configuration changes and other account activity.
  • Cloud environments provide access to dynamic and flexible infrastructure. Securing hybrid data centers requires solutions that can grow with the needs of the business.
  • Data centers offer high availability and redundancy to support business functions. Security must provide the same guarantees to minimize disruption to operations.
  • Hybrid data center security solutions should ingest data from across the entire environment and use it to develop adaptive and context-aware security policies that ensure consistent security across the board. These policies should adapt dynamically to reflect changing configurations of the data center’s infrastructure minimizing the need for manual change controls where possible.

 

The modern data center and network require the flexibility of a hybrid cloud security architecture that uses automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to scale threat prevention performance on demand on premise and in the cloud, with a simplified and unified management system. Organisations should adopt a security framework that encapsulate as many security layers as possible, to reduce the possible attack or intrusion surfaces from threat actors, and to afford effective resilience actions whenever security policies are breached.

 

News

YesAuto forms strategic partnership with IMDA amid warning of independent dealerships becoming obsolete

YesAuto, the online car marketplace, today announced a strategic partnership with the Independent Motor Dealers Association (IMDA), the UK’s only association for independent motor dealers. The alliance will see YesAuto provide access to its online marketplace for more than 750 independent dealerships that currently make up the IMDA, offering exclusive offers and support to all of IMDA’s current and future members.

The IMDA acts as the voice of independent motor dealers in the UK. It was formed by dealers for dealers, to give independents a strong voice and leverage their collective power and importance. The partnership with YesAuto further extends the appeal of the growing association and will enable independent dealerships to target consumers from across the UK thanks to YesAuto’s easy to use, well-designed, online marketplace.

“The health of independent motor dealerships is vital to the success of the automotive and wider economy,” said Neil You, General Manager at YesAuto UK. “Our recently commissioned research showed that up to 30% of British drivers would be happy to research and purchase a car solely online. Unless independent dealerships have access to online platforms, they are in danger of becoming obsolete. Our IMDA partnership will ensure the collective strength of UK independent dealerships remains the lifeblood of the industry.”

“The need for dealerships to move online and connect with customers across the country has never been clearer,” added Umesh Samani, Chairman of IMDA. “The partnership with YesAuto will enable our growing community of independent dealerships to grow the potential of their business. As YesAuto’s platform continues to build from strength to strength, so does the reach of our association.”

Purchasing habits of UK consumers has changed dramatically since the start of the pandemic. Although there is a clear shift to buying online almost half (48%) stated they would be happy to do all of their research online but would want to go into a dealership in person to make the final purchase. This highlights the vital need for all dealerships to be transitioning, in part, to online sales. With YesAuto’s continued support, the IMDA members will be joining a platform that already boasts more than 3,200 UK dealerships and enjoys a significant and sustained month-on-month growth rate.

About YesAuto

YesAuto, the new revolutionary way to finding the cars that suit any buyer, is a website and app that connects buyers with dealers through its innovative smart technology to make car buying simpler, more transparent, and enjoyable.

YesAuto customers are given full control when it comes to selecting and choosing the right car for them. The site uses clever tools, abundant user and expert content to help customers find the car that suits their specific needs, alongside a customer rating system that allows people to see what other drivers think in order for car buying to be as seamless as possible.

News

Adoption of single synthetic environment predicted to save MoD £1.3bn, with total quantitative benefits reaching over £3bn

New Impact Assessment report from EY reveals the massive quantitative and vital qualitative benefits of adopting a platform-as-a-service single synthetic environment in the UK

  • Often referred to as ‘digital twins’ or ‘virtual worlds’, EY predicts adoption of a platform approach to building single synthetic environments within the UK’s Digital Backbone for defence, could provide £3bn in benefits, including £1.3bn in cost savings for the MoD
  • The new report follows the UK government’s Integrated Review which called for the construction of a ‘digital backbone’ for UK defence, of which a single synthetic environment should be a critical pillar, and investment to become a science and technology superpower by 2030

New analysis and research from EY commissioned by Improbable today reveals that over a 10 year period, adopting a platform approach to developing synthetic environments across UK defence, could deliver quantitative benefits in excess of £3bn. Synthetic environment (SE) technology is a critical enabler of multi-domain integration and vital for delivering the digital ambition set out recently in the UK’s 2021 Integrated Review and the MoD’s Digital Strategy for Defence.

Often referred to as ‘digital twins’ or ‘virtual worlds’, synthetic environments are digital versions of chosen environments, whether that’s physical (e.g. a city), non-physical (e.g. a social network) or a mix of both. The Digital Backbone’s Single Synthetic Environment aims to bring together the data streams, models and AI from across government, industry and academia to drive creation of multiple synthetic environment solutions to support critical functions across Defence.

Taking a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) approach to an SSE would enable MoD to establish a collaborative SE “solution factory” that harnesses the combined resources of established suppliers and those of SMEs and providers beyond the traditional defence base.

Furthermore, a PasS approach to an SSE changes how synthetic environment solutions are procured, developed and evolved, and moves away from the linear delivery of siloed projects and towards a far more agile, integrated and adaptable delivery that shares data and component capabilities across solutions.

A PaaS SSE will then ultimately allow all branches of the UK Armed Forces and their allies to train, plan and operate together through more coordinated synthetic environments.

For the first time, EY’s analysis has found that adoption of a platform approach to the UK’s digital backbone’s single synthetic environment could provide the following financial benefits to the UK:

  • £1.3bn in direct cost benefits to the MoD, including £810m from reduced content development costs, and £450m from reduced back end support costs
  • £1bn-£1.5bn in indirect cost benefits to the MoD, including the benefits of better decision making, reduction of spending on R&D, and the benefits to the environment
  • £300m-£750m in wider economic benefits for the UK, including UK export opportunities and innovation spill overs

 

This is in addition to the qualitative benefits of this approach, including:

  • Greater interoperability: A simplification for different branches of the Armed Forces looking to work together, and with their allies
  • Rapid access to context and insights: A reduction in barriers to content suppliers, providing greater supply chain diversity, competition and innovation, including from smaller innovative UK tech companies
  • A reduced impact on the environment: A SSE reduced the need to travel, use carbon heavy equipment in live testing and expend resources like ammunition

 

The UK government’s 2021 Integrated Review restated the need for a radical digital transformation and for the UK to secure its status as a science and technology superpower by 2030. The Defence Secretary described investment in synthetics and simulation “to exploit new domains and enhance productivity” as part of the Review’s “mission to seek out and to understand future threats, and to invest in the capabilities to defeat them”, a call reflected in the MoD’s Digital Strategy for Defence 2021 where the SSE is named as one of the three critical pillars building the UK’s Digital Backbone for Defence.

The MoD has been working on trial programmes with companies including Improbable, a UK technology company that works across the NATO alliance to combine computational modelling, AI, data analytics and other skills and knowledge relevant to defence and national security applications. 

The Improbable synthetic environment platform and partner ecosystem offer a powerful, flexible and secure platform, for delivering simulations and synthetic environments tailored to the needs of the defence community.

The Executive Summary for EY’s Impact Assessment report is available from the Improbable website here https://defence.improbable.io/ey-paas-assessment. 

 

Joe Robinson, CEO of Improbable’s defence business comments: “Adopting and deploying a synthetic environment platform across UK national security is an important step in building the digital backbone for defence. We have long known the significant qualitative benefits that the single synthetic environment would provide, and are pleased to see this new analysis from EY that also shows the £3bn qualitative benefits to the MoD and wider UK economy from taking a platform-as-a-service approach. It’s never been more important to invest in UK science and technology, for our security, resilience, and economic prosperity.

 

Iain Burgess, Defence & Security Lead at EY comments: “As the UK redefines its place in the world, it is clear that technology must be at the forefront in helping create a more resilient, sustainable and prosperous country for our citizens. As a core pillar of the MoD’s Digital Strategy, a single synthetic environment is a critical step in defining the future role of technology in Defence and National Security, setting the standards for others to follow and delivering clear financial, operational and sustainable benefits once implemented.” 

News, North of England

Leeds Agency Snap Up First Class Graduates in Latest Hiring Spree

Four-day week agency Punch Creative bolsters their Creative, Content and Client Services teams with five new hires including three recent graduates.

Punch Creative has recently offered extended paid internships to two Leeds based graduates. Emily Grote joins the Content Team as a Marketing Intern and Megan Lent joins the Creative Team as a Junior Design Intern. Both Emily and Megan completed a four-week work experience placement at Punch, which allowed them to showcase their talent and earn themselves six-month paid internships at the agency.

Phoebe Holden, a recent Leeds University graduate, joins the Content Team as a Marketing Executive. After completing a university placement year at Oxfam, Phoebe brings a wealth of experience, passion for B2C content marketing and a flair for generating organic engagement across social media. Skills that will add value to Punch’s large client base in the hospitality industry.

Phoebe and Emily achieved first-class degrees from their prospective universities this summer, and Megan won the Wood Pencil D&AD Award in 2021 for a brief tackling the taboos of Menopause.

Jack Eustace, a long time client of Punch joins the Client Services team as an Account Manager. Jack’s experience of working both agency and client-side means he has a unique perspective on managing client relationships and projects. Jack brings a level of understanding to the client services team that will support the growth of existing accounts as well as the onboarding of new long-term partnerships.

Last but far from least, Jade Tregilgas, joined the agency as Digital Strategist, a brand new role, signalling an increased focus on data and digital insight. Jade’s wealth of experience in the hospitality industry makes her a great hire for the agency and its clients in this sector.

Commercial Director, Louise Wright, says, “We’re delighted to be welcoming so many new members to the team and we feel privileged to be in a position to be offering experience and opportunities for graduates. Building a strong talent pipeline is one of our core business objectives and I strongly believe it is our cultural initiatives such as the four-day week, our focus on wellbeing and our staff profit share scheme that enables us to attract and recruit the top talent, regardless of how far into their career they are.”

Business News, Wales News

Continued growth for MSS Group

Cardiff Headquartered MSS Group, have posted their 2020/21 accounts, marking another year of growth for the facilities and environmental services specialists.

In a year that has proved challenging for all businesses, the MSS Group have managed to exceed their forecast by posting accounts showing record numbers in annual turnover, profit and EBITDA.

For the year 2020/21, the MSS Group’s financial performance showed a continuing increase in revenue from £28.5m to £31m, as well as an increase in pre tax profits from £5.2m to £5.7m. The figures also showed a near 13% increase in EBTIDA, rising to £6.2m in 2020/21 from £5.5m in the previous year.

During the pandemic, the Group, who primarily operate in highly regulated and frequently hazardous environments, found the majority of their staff were defined as key workers, providing critical services in keeping their clients operational.

Speaking on the results, MSS Group Chief Executive Bill Mayne said: “Our Organisation exists to create and maintain ‘Clean, Safe and Secure Environments’ and the events of the past 18 months have demonstrated, more than ever before, the significance and relevance of this philosophy”.

The majority of the Group’s client base consists of large multi-national businesses, tier 1 contractors and public sector bodies. MSS support those clients with a range of services including industrial and commercial cleaning, waste management, asbestos removal, water treatment, security services and more. The growing number of clients, added to the retention of established clients has played a key role in the sustained growth of the business.

Mr Mayne added: “We describe ourselves as a safe pair of hands because consistent and reliable delivery of products and services is at the heart of everything we do. Our ability to do this has led to enduring relationships with companies that share our commitment to health & safety, quality, and working in partnership to deliver exceptional results”.

The business credits their employees as being the key reason behind the growth. The Group puts a strong emphasis on employee wellbeing, and their dedication to this was recognised by the award of the Investors in People Gold Accreditation earlier this year.

Mr Mayne concluded: “Our employees are the reason behind the success of our business, they are dedicated, highly skilled and have been exceptional at delivering the strategies and goals set by our leadership team. The business has grown significantly in headcount during the last year and all our staff and leaders have adapted very effectively to this rapid period of growth. To support this increase in demands on our people we have continued to reward, recognise and train our employees with a broad suite of employee benefits”.

Looking forward, the year 2021/22 has started strongly for the Group, with further announcements expected in the coming months as the business continues to expand.

AI, News, Tech

Sisense Appoints Cloud Technology Leader Gilad Katz as Senior Vice President, Engineering

Sisense, the leading AI-driven platform for infusing analytics everywhere, has announced the appointment of Gilad Katz as Senior Vice President, Engineering. Gilad will lead the company’s global engineering and development department, which spans Kiev, the U.S.A. and Israel, and leverage his background in building SaaS architecture to propel Sisense further ahead of competitors as one of the only cloud-agnostic and cloud-native analytics vendors on the market.

“Gilad is an innovative engineering leader with an impressive track record of scaling and leading high performing teams and developing cloud-centric solutions that support large scale production systems and serve customers’ most complex technical needs,” Amir Orad, CEO of Sisense said. “Gilad truly shares Sisense’s value to be customer-obsessed and his vast SaaS experience aligns with our mission to help businesses infuse analytics everywhere, at cloud scale.”

Gilad has more than 20 years of experience leading large scale engineering, both in enterprise SaaS companies as well as in early-stage start-ups. In his most recent role, Gilad led the R&D and Product teams at AppsFlyer, where he grew the engineering department from 60 engineers to more than 300, developing one of the industry’s top Cloud 100 mission-critical SaaS production systems that brought the company over $200 million in annual revenue, serving over 10,000 customers and over 6,000 technology partners.

“I am thrilled to bring my experience in engineering to the fast-growing, world-class team here at Sisense,” Gilad Katz, Senior Vice President, Engineering at Sisense said. “Sisense has incredible momentum and I am fortunate to join such an exceptional business that saw the need for the cloud early on. I look forward to helping Sisense continue to expand and develop leading technologies that transform businesses around the world.”

IDC predicts 80% of enterprises will speed up their shift to a cloud-centric infrastructure and cloud applications twice as fast as before the pandemic. The Sisense Fusion platform provides businesses the analytics foundation they need to transform their business inside and out and deliver AI-powered insights to employees and customers, at the right time, every time.

The Sisense Fusion Platform covers two key use cases: Sisense Fusion Embed, allowing the ability to infuse fully white-labelled analytic experiences into customer applications and workflows at scale, and also Sisense Fusion Analytics which does the same with employee-facing applications. Both use cases go beyond standard business intelligence by allowing all skill levels of employees and customers to analyze data and build customized experiences around the value of actionable intelligence.

The platform goes beyond the dashboard and helps customers simplify analytic complexity, build customizable experiences and infuse analytics everywhere with AI-powered insights. The result of this architecture provides a unique level of agility, flexibility and lower cost of ownership – from data flexibility to scale to analytical experience to extensibility to cloud to AI.

Sisense has a growing suite of local UK customers including Gousto, YourDMS and Learning Pool.

Business, News

£25,000 Business Boost grant launched to help start or grow a small business

Simply Business competition to win £25,000 opens today for budding entrepreneurs, closing 17 September

Following a successful competition last year,  small business insurance provider Simply Business has announced the the launch of its £25,000 Business Boost grant for 2021 – designed to help new entrepreneurs launch a small business or help existing UK SMEs bounce back from the challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic.

The insurer said they had increased the Prize fund to £25,000 after a recent study showed SMEs now expect to lose £22,461 each on average in lost earnings from Covid-19 with over 2 million existing small businesses unable to access government schemes.  A spokesperson said:

“Small businesses have a big, positive impact on society. Not only do they account for 99 per cent of all UK businesses and generate £2tn annually to the economy, they provide vital jobs and services within communities right across the UK.

“The common barriers to starting a small business are finance, fear and knowledge. So to help overcome this people can apply to win £25,000 cash from Simply Business to help kick-start their business idea – a significant sum given the average UK start up spends £22,756 in their first year.”

Small business owners can submit their entries from today with the competition closing on 17 September. The winner will be selected by an expert panel before being announced in October.

The 2021 grant is the second iteration from Simply Business, who provide insurance to over 800,000 small businesses and landlords. Last year it gave away £10,000 to one small business owner to help their recovery from Covid-19. Larissa Cooper – owner of Rowan Bay in Norfolk, who creates and designs sustainable artisan baby wraps and slings – beat almost 15,000 small businesses from across the UK to win.

Larissa Cooper, Business Boost 2020 winner, said:

“The Business Boost grant from Simply Business has helped me so much. Winning the £10,000 has enabled me to re-stock and order a new line of woven baby wraps for Rowan Bay.

“And, excitingly, I will soon be collecting my first batch of fleeces from a local conservation organisation ahead of it being processed into wool for my complimentary business Naked Wool. Without the grant, none of this would have been possible, due to the impact Covid had. If you’re thinking about applying – go for it!”

A recent study from Simply Business laid bare the impact of Covid-19 on UK SMEs. The key findings showed:

  • SMEs have lost £15,673 each so far in lost work and earnings due to the pandemic
  • In total, SME owners expect to lose £22,461 each on average, suggesting there are still losses to come, even despite the re openings from government
  • Over 840,000 SMEs are not sure their business will ever return to pre-pandemic trading levels
  • Over 2.2 million SMEs (37%) still haven’t been able to access government schemes and grants, often seen as a lifeline to help small businesses through the pandemic.

Alan Thomas, UK CEO at Simply Business, comments:

“Small businesses are built on big dreams, and countless self-employed people have seen these dreams put to the test during this most challenging of periods. We want to make a genuinely transformational impact to a small business owner’s life – with a cash injection that can put someone’s big dream back on track.

“And from our research we know £25,000 will do just that. The average cost of Covid-19 to existing small businesses stands at £22,461 – up from the £11,779 SME owners estimated in May last year. Meanwhile, the average cost for startups in year one alone stands at £22,756.

“We fully appreciate the devastating impact of coronavirus and the subsequent lockdowns on the self-employed – few have been hit harder. The fact we had almost 15,000 applications last year shows just how important it is to support UK SMEs as they look to recover financially.

“Since then, small businesses have had to endure a third national lockdown and various restrictions on trading, and we know the financial impact now will be even greater than this time last year. This is why we’ve taken the decision to increase the prize to £25,000 – to help match the financial impact suffered by so many small business owners.

“As the country attempts to recover economically, we hope that our Business Boost will provide one small business owner with a significant financial helping hand. Small business success will be crucial to both the economy and the livelihoods of so many up and down the country as the UK looks to bounce back.”

To learn more about the Simply Business Business Boost grant and enter the competition, visit: https://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/business-boost/

News

Students praised for resilience as Cambria achieves ‘outstanding’ A Level results

COLEG CAMBRIA Chief Executive Yana Williams praised learners and staff for their incredible resilience following another unparalleled year.

As A Level and BTEC students from college sites in Deeside, Wrexham, Northop and Llysfasi receive their grades today (Tuesday), Ms Williams reflected on “outstanding” overall results for the college.

She commended them for meeting the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic head-on and thanked staff and the community for their continued support.

Ms Williams added the primary focus in the coming weeks is ensuring all students are prepared for the upcoming academic year, whether that be in college, university or as they prepare for their future careers.

“A year ago, when we were in uncharted territory, the way our students met the challenges of the Coronavirus was truly inspiring,” she said.

“Here we are 12 months later and again much of the learning has taken place online, though sites did begin to reopen in the Autumn and then Spring so face-to-face teaching could take place, while adhering to Coronavirus safety measures.

“Like other colleges we have had to adapt and be flexible, use innovative methods to ensure standards remain high and help our learners reach their potential.

“To do that, they and our staff have shown incredible resilience; we are so proud of them all and continue to be amazed by the levels they aspire to… and achieve.”

Ms Williams added: “We continue to prepare for the next academic year and look forward to welcoming new students to the college this autumn. Well done again to all of the learners for your efforts.”

As well as students entering higher education, many will begin advanced apprenticeships with industry-leading organisations.

Principal Sue Price said the college has made strides forward and will learn from the past 18 months, notably in the way blended learning is delivered.

“Whatever challenges are put in front of us, we will always ensure the students are our number one priority and support them to success in whatever they do,” said Mrs Price.

“The college and learners have demonstrated amazing fortitude and also great innovation as lessons were brought online; together we adapted to continue delivering a first-class education with their health and safety at the forefront of all decisions.

“Congratulations to everyone receiving their results today and best of luck for the future.”

For more on Coleg Cambria’s A Level and BTEC results, visit www.cambria.ac.uk