Merton College

Driving the turnover, operations and the ideas pivotal to the future success of a business are its employees. Get the right workforce skills and you will be better positioned to be competitive and profitable, whether you are a small business, just starting up, or a large well established enterprise.

Using our training services will:  

• Support your investment in people through skills training and staff development
• Help achieve your business goals and objectives by developing the skills and qualifications of your people
• Develop a better qualified and motivated workforce

• We are one of the major training providers in London and we excel in delivering workplace training.
• We provide value for money, professional training and courses, delivered by expert trainers with industry experience, tailored to the requirements of each employer.
• Our employer training is of a high quality, demonstrating good success rates and positive business benefits. Our work with employers was commended in our 2008 OFSTED inspection.
• We have invested £50m in state of the art training facilities in the last 2 years and we continue to develop our workplace training courses.

Find out what funding is available to you. In some cases, courses leading to qualifications are government funded meaning that there are no fees for employers. Much of this funding is available through 'Train to Gain'. Click the link below for Train to Gain information.

Our business consultants can offer professional advice, helping you identify staff training and development needs.

Contact our Employer line on 020 8408 6567.

Click here to find out more about Train to Gain at Merton College

The College offers courses on our premises and in the workplace. We work with employers in each area of our curriculum and can adapt courses to meet the needs of individual companies.

We also provide services to business in the following ways:

Make a difference to your business and employ an apprentice! You will get an enthusiastic member of staff who is learning relevant new skills while contributing to your company's performance.

We run apprenticeships in:

• Motorcycle Maintenance
• Catering and Hospitality
• Adminstration
• Several other professions at our Wandsworth Campus

We can train an existing member of your team or help you find a new a new recruit.

To find out more about Apprenticeships please click here

We have substantial experience of developing non-English-speaking staff. Costs are often supported from government sources, and we have run several schemes on behalf of the European Social Fund. We also run introductory level classes providing literacy, numeracy, study skills and confidence-building opportunities for staff who need these to start working towards NVQ courses.

We place our students in all sorts of roles in a variety of sectors, in companies of all sizes. Placements can last from just a couple of weeks to full-year, part-time posts. Our students can contribute usefully to companies and many have progressed to paid employment with the placements.