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Education
Colleges
The Portsmouth city region consists of a number of successful colleges to develop both school leavers and adults. Some colleges specialise in business and enterprise to encourage entrepreneurship and business careers. Their aim is to provide students with the skills needed to progress into employment, self-employment, further training and higher education according to their individual abilities, skills and ambitions.
Visit the Hampshire County Council "Going to college" website.
University of Portsmouth
The University is active in research and knowledge transfer across the spectrum of its activities. Areas of international excellence include the Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Sciences, the Centre for European and International Studies Research and the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation.
The University of Portsmouth aims to provide a valuable resource for the business community. In addition to providing graduate skills to local companies on a project on a fixed period basis, often with a cost subsidy, the University has launched Purple Door.
Visit the University of Portsmouth Business website.
Purple Door
Purple Door is the University's service for businesses, public and voluntary sector organisations and entrepreneurs in the South East. Its aim is to support development, enterprise and innovation, and to improve workforce skills, by supplying access to the University’s facilities, knowledge and expertise, its academic staff and students. They offer advice and guidance in the following areas:
- Research and knowledge transfer
- Student and graduate recruitment services
- Specialist Research and Development
