OUR CULTURE

This is underpinned by our college values which we will ensure are embedded in our daily practices:

Professional

Ambitious Passionate Supportive Progressive Enterprising

Implicit within our strategy is our recognition of the importance of looking after our staff and students’ mental health, wellbeing and safety.

We also value every student and member of staff as an equal and important part of our college community and want everyone to be able to reach their potential whilst here.

This means creating a learning and working environment where everyone is heard, included, treated with respect and valued for what they bring.

We recognise that our curriculum across all subject areas, levels and study types needs to be continuously reviewed and informed by the future needs of all industries we serve. Our curriculum plans set out how we will meet these needs and ensure that students aren’t just receiving a qualification but a rounded set of skills, knowledge and behaviours to enable them to be highly employable and successful in their future careers.

At the heart of our continual review of the curriculum is a commitment to ensure that clear progression pathways are in place and promoted internally and externally to existing and prospective students, which helps to raise ambition and awareness of long-term career opportunities.

Our curriculum will therefore ensure we meet need at a local, regional and national level. We will respond to the Local Skills Improvement Plan in doing so, as we will the other priorities of the Skills and Post 16 Education Act to ensure courses are innovatively delivered to support lifelong learning.

In response to the identified need, we will develop three-year curriculum plans, focusing on higher technical levels and starting with our T Level offer and suite of new Degree programmes in 2023/24.