Welcome to MACTRI

Building on our expertise of running community-based supplementary education and employability programmes for NEETS, we provide distance-learning Higher Education for young adults and mature learners looking for a path to career success in the voluntary and the third sector. We provide undergraduate degrees that are tailored to community settings (both in the UK and overseas), in terms of training for the provision of much needed community services in Education Studies, Youth and Communities and Complimentary Medicine. Our degrees also include Foundation Year Programmes to provide our communities maximum access to our Higher Education provision.

With this community focus in mind, all of our degree pathways share a core and unifying Enterprise thread to ensure strong, employment outcomes for our graduates in addition to capacity-building within their communities.

Working together
Understanding together
Achieving together

We know from research and our own experience with supplementary education that when communities work together to support learning, students tend to achieve higher grades, attend school more regularly, stay in school longer and enroll in further education. We apply our extensive community learning and experience to the delivery of Higher Education.

So that’s what we do. We work as a community institute to give young people from ethnic and disadvantaged backgrounds a safe, disciplined and nurturing distance-learning/hybrid environment. We place particular emphasis on the Enterprise potential of every student, making their learning personally relevant, engaging and ultimately rewarding after graduation. We also welcome mature learners who perhaps are returning to education later in life and are wanting to re-train. We empower these students to achieve positive educational outcomes with full preparation for Higher Education, via our Foundation Year programmes.

Message from the Vice Chancellor

It is my absolute pleasure to lead our institute, which was founded by an almost impossible dream for a Higher Education that was created by grassroots communities, for grassroots communities and also a Higher Education that would help to build capacity in those communities.  I constantly remain astounded and humbled by the sheer knowledge and creativity that is found in our grassroots communities. It is an honor and a privilege to be able to co-produce our programmes with them, in turn, helping them to build brighter futures for themselves and indeed, for us all!

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