Tees Business #3 | Page 37

Serving the Teesside Business Community | 37 / MIDDLESBROUGH NEWS EDUCATIONAL INNOVATORS LAUNCH LITERACY PARTNERSHIP Two of Teesside’s foremost education organisations have launched a collaborative project to raise the literacy levels of local students. Middlesbrough College has agreed an innovative partnership with Sound Training that has resulted in the college now having eight specialist teachers trained and licensed to deliver a ground-breaking teaching programme throughout the college. Middlesbrough-based Sound Training’s fast-growing teaching programme delivers a dramatic impact on the literacy levels of students of all ages and abilities in just six hour-long sessions. While Sound Training has established working partnerships with more than 300 p ɥ