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In July 2008, several students from Cockburn College of Arts in Beeston attended a series of workplace visits to the city-centre offices of Pinsent Masons. For the last year, the students have been benefiting from a structured literacy and numeracy programme delivered by employees of the law firm.  The workplace visits take place in the summer term and are designed to provide the mentored pupils with an insight into the working lives of their mentors. After being treated to a boardroom lunch, the students learned about the various career opportunities in the firm, ranging from maintenance, security and catering right through to law. The mentoring is planned to continue as the pupils pass through years 9, 10 and 11 and evolve into workplace and employability programmes. Peter Nuttall, the school's relationship manager with the firm said of the visits that "The majority of the pupils would have no other opportunity to experience a visit of this kind. Our pupils can see that they too can aspire to work in such an organisation on a great number of different levels".