Context and Place Sample Clauses
Context and Place. Winstanley College is located in a semi-rural location in Billinge, Wigan. Just under half our students come from the Wigan area (49%) with 65% coming from Greater Manchester. Achievement rates at Key Stage 4 among Wigan schools are typically slightly less than national averages. We recruit from 63 different schools of which 60 schools regularly send at least one student annually. Just under half our students come from the Wigan area (49%) with 65% coming from Greater Manchester. Achievement rates at Key Stage 4 among Wigan schools are typically slightly less than national averages. We recruit from 63 different schools of which 60 schools regularly send at least one student annually. The February 2023 ONS Census 2021 report on How Workforce Qualification Levels Differ across England and Wales comments that the qualification levels of local labour forces indicate an area’s ability to attract, retain and train highly qualified workers as well as reflecting on the health of the local labour market and economy. Currently, Wigan is ranked 253 out of 331 local authorities in terms of composite educational qualification levels. This means it is mid-ranking in Greater Manchester Combined Authority (Trafford for example is ranked 28th out of 331 with Manchester 76th) and is in the bottom 40% nationally. Students come to us from Wigan Local Authority, St Helen’s and Warrington in the main. Such is the strength of our reputation that we also draw from a number of schools with sixth forms such as Rainford High School in St Helen’s and Ormskirk Academy in Ormskirk. Our location offers easy access from ▇▇▇▇▇▇ railway station and Wigan train station and the greater Manchester Our Pass, which allows free travel for 16 to 19 year olds in the greater Manchester area means that many students choose to travel to us by bus for distances of up to one and a half hours. We also run our own college bus services for around 800 students. In socio-economic terms, using the IDACI measure which looks at the income context of the communities from which students are drawn, around 16% of students come from the top 20% most deprived districts and 45% come from the top 60% most deprived areas. 53% of our students come from postcodes in the IDACI top 60% for Education and Skills Deprivation with 17% from the top 20% most educationally deprived post code areas. Around 8% of students claim Free School meals and 12% claim Discretionary Bursary. We have a small number of students on EHC plans or...
Context and Place. We are an Adult Education Service which is embedded within the Cheshire West and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (CW&C) Local Authority. We deliver a wide range of programmes through our four geographically based work zones and commissioned partners. Our work zones are in Chester, Ellesmere Port, Northwich and Winsford. As part of this offer, we have created Learning and Skills Hubs, which are currently based in ten local primary school settings. In addition to these school settings, the Hubs also provide support in community centres, plus venues where demand has been recognised and requested e.g., ▇▇▇▇ Barracks. The Hubs offer a range of Family Learning and Work Zone adult learning opportunities that support the schools’ parents, carers, and local residents to learn new skills, progress to further learning, find employment or improve career prospects. The Hubs also facilitate regular information drop-in sessions from Citizens Advice and the Council’s Housing department. Our programme of delivery is aimed at supporting adults to develop their confidence and basic skills, all the way through to delivering vocational programmes in line with local employment needs at Level 2. We also work closely with partners such as local Further Education Colleges and independent training providers, to ensure no duplication of provision and to encourage progression routes for our learners into further study where relevant. Recently we have also become responsible for the delivery of Multiply, aimed at supporting those adults without a Level 2 in maths, working closely with a range of partners including those in the voluntary and community sector. In addition to our Adult Education provision, we support an annual cohort of approximately 20 Supported Internship Learners, providing them with employability and basic skills and facilitating high quality relevant work experience through our extensive link to local employers. Our provision is contained within the Cheshire West and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ footprint, serving a population of approximately 350,000 people. The Services uses a broad range of intelligence to inform our provision which includes national data sets, such as the DWP Stat Xplore and the EMSI data supplied by the Cheshire and Warrington LEP, along with feedback from learners and employers that we engage with. Table 1 shows the labour force breakdown in CW&C in 2022. This table shows that there is a working age population (16-64) of 208,827, with 4,302 people currently classed as unemployed. Table 1...
Context and Place. The ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Centre is one of only ten organisations nationally, four of which are in London, designated under the 1992 Further and Higher Education Act as an Institute of Adult Learning (IAL) which are recognised for their expertise in delivering a curriculum to meet the needs of adults. Like the other London IALs, we offer a curriculum that includes functional skills and employability skills programmes alongside the innovative and often bespoke range of non-accredited and ACL provision that characterises the work of the IALs. The Centre currently delivers across two buildings, one in north Southwark at Blackfriars Settlement and the other in Holborn in the south of Camden. As a result of the completion of a major capital development supported by grants from the GLA and ESFA, we are due to vacate our central London base in Holborn in July 2023 and move to East London to our new centre in Stratford with delivery planned from September 2023. We also deliver provision in partnership with approximately 40 community partners throughout the East London region aimed at widening participation and engaging with the most disadvantaged and those furthest from education and training and work. In 2020/21 restructuring of the academic team realigned the structure with the future needs of the community and local and national priorities. This structure is now embedded with the organisation. The curriculum is divided into five curriculum areas which reflect the cohort of students accessing learning and to give focus to priorities such as covid recovery and our move to east London and a new area: Community Outreach, Essential Skills (including Additional Learning Support), Work Skills and Employability, Arts and Wellbeing and Professional Qualifications, Humanities and Social Sciences. Each curriculum section also contributes to the growing programme of Community Outreach courses aimed at widening participation. The Settlement is governed by a Board of 16 trustees, which meets at least five times a year. Skills and expertise on the Board include adult education, community development, business, law, accountancy, marketing, audit and risk. The Centre’s distinctive programme and excellent public transport connections, including at its new site in Stratford, ensure it attracts a student body composed of residents and commuting workers from all London boroughs and beyond, illustrating the regional (rather than strictly local) role of the Centre. In 2021/22, the Centre saw an ...
Context and Place. Essex is a county in the East of England. One of the home counties, it borders Suffolk and Cambridgeshire to the north, the North Sea to the east, Hertfordshire to the ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇ across the River Thames estuary to the south and Greater London to the south and south-west. Currently Greater London, along with Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, are devolved authorities. Proximity to London is significant, with high levels of commuting to the capital or home-based working for London-based employers. Similarly, proximity to areas such as Cambridge, Hertfordshire and Suffolk are factors for people commuting in and out of Essex. In the context of the Local Enterprise Partnerships, Essex is part of the South East Local Enterprise Partnership (▇▇▇▇▇). Although there are a number of high-profile large employers in Essex, the table overview illustrates the large presence of small and micro-businesses. Essex has a slightly larger proportion of micro-businesses than the regional average, with small businesses often requiring additional support to engage with the skills system and to provide opportunities such as apprenticeships. In general, the number of businesses in Essex has steadily increased, from 51,600 in 2011 to 66,800 in 2020. The Essex Skills Plan 2022-23 highlights that skills levels have improved but are still generally below the national average, although there are variations at district level. Essex County Council commissions Adult Community Learning Essex (ACL Essex) to provide learning across the county, with Southend and Thurrock unitary authorities having their own ACL provider. Essex is a large county with a population of around 1.5 million (working age 16-64 910,000) . It has a wide range of communities spanning rural, urban and coastal areas with widely varying qualification levels and areas of significant social deprivation ACL Essex is primarily a direct delivery service and has nine adult community learning centres in most of the major cities/towns in Essex. In support of the levelling up agenda, ACL Essex also offers courses at other community venues across the county including libraries, community centres, schools and care providers. ACL Essex is graded as ‘good’ by Ofsted. The diagram highlights the spread of ACL Essex’s learner’s pre-pandemic, along with the indices of multiple deprivation across the county. This effectively highlights the uneven spread of deprivation across the county. Data from Essex County Council, Strategy Insight and Enga...
Context and Place. Bexhill College is a Sixth Form College which operates in the eastern side of East Sussex. Its core purpose is the provision of high-quality education for 16 – 19-year-olds. The College recruits students from Rother (Bexhill, Battle, Robertsbridge, Rye), Hastings and Eastbourne. We also provide a post 16 education option to students from further afield locally as well as welcoming an increasing number of international students. In total, our students come from 53 different secondary schools. The College offers a broad range of courses to meet the needs of the local community. The core focus of the College work is with the 16-19 age group, offering a broad range of academic and vocational courses across foundation, intermediate and advanced level including T levels in Health Care, Early Childhood Education and Business. The College attracts approximately 2250 full time, 16–19-year-old students, of which approximately 90% are studying advanced programmes and the remaining 10% at intermediate/foundation level. The broad curriculum offer reflects the needs of the young people in the area and ensures progression opportunities are available for students from the wide range of secondary schools we recruit from, each of whom have different pre 16 curriculum and outcomes. The entry requirements aim to ensure students are on the right course for their ability and future aspirations and therefore enables student success and progression. The College provides Study Programmes at levels 1, 2 and 3, with flexible combinations of academic and vocational options. In addition, GCSEs in English and Maths are offered, with significant numbers of students resitting these qualifications. All funded Study Programmes are full-time. As of September 2024, our average GCSE point score on entry is 4.86. The breadth of the curriculum with the opportunity for students to take almost any combination of subjects, along with the high-quality pastoral and academic support, is the unique selling point of the College. The College has a reputation for consistently high results. The College offers over 80 different courses across A level and vocational courses at level 3, 2 and 1. The College operates on a single site and moved to new purpose-built accommodation in August 2004. The College has excellent facilities including a sports hall, 3Gpitch, film studio, dance studio, laboratories as well as general classrooms. Since 2004, the College has continued to develop the campus and facilities, o...
Context and Place. Loreto is a Catholic Sixth Form College. It is a single site institution with over 3500 students and approximately 300 staff. It is located in Hulme, Manchester but consistently draws students from across Greater Manchester and beyond. The majority of students complete a level 3 qualification (96% of provision by entry), but the college is justifiably proud of the achievements of level 2 and level 1 students whose qualifications allow them to progress onto further study, apprenticeships or employment. We regularly review our curriculum offer to ensure that we meet the needs of our local community, prospective students and local, regional and national skills needs. We offer 34 A level qualifications, 7 Level 3 vocational qualifications (equivalent to one A Level), 4 BTEC Level 3 Extended Diplomas (equivalent to three A Levels), 3 BTEC Level 2 qualifications, GCSE resits in Maths and English Language and Foundation-level qualifications through our Pathways to Independence Department, which offers provision to students with learning differences and disabilities. We are committed to maintaining a diverse intake of students and ensure we offer places to students from a range of ethnic, cultural, socio-economic backgrounds. We welcome students with varied prior attainment and maintain modest entry requirements, which align with our inclusive and aspirational approach. We have students with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCP) in both our mainstream and our Pathways provision and we work closely with students, families and external organisations to ensure the needs and aspirations of these students are fully met. We have a significant number of students with SEND and with Exam Access Arrangements; our Additional Learning Support department works closely with curriculum, pastoral, exams and admissions teams to support these students and meet their needs. Our pastoral provision ensures that each student has twice weekly tutorial lessons and a fortnightly Hall assembly, through which a centralised and sequenced programme of high-quality tutorial resources is delivered on themes of Student Life, Safeguarding and Wellbeing, and Careers. This helps to ensure all students’ access support and opportunities to develop their employability and transferrable skills and can make informed decisions about their post- college options. It also helps to ensure that the college supports students to achieve their potential and develop into well rounded and informed young adults w...
Context and Place. ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ College is a sixth form college located in Winchester. Of its 4,394 full time learners, only a quarter are drawn from Winchester itself. The College draws students from across Hampshire, and has 70 boarding students. These are all ESFA funded students and we do not have Tier 4 status, so have no international students. The College’s intake spans Hampshire and the Southampton and Portsmouth unitary authorities, with small numbers of students from Dorset and Wiltshire. Our three largest contributors are the 11-16 schools in Winchester: Kings School, The Westgate School and the ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ School. One thing that makes Hampshire unusual is the very small number of schools with a sixth form, and the fluidity of movement for post-16 study. Our location (200 metres from Winchester Railway Station) provides easy access for students from across Hampshire. 880 have railway season tickets (processed by the College) and we liaise with local bus providers to ensure bus provision matches student applications. 14% of our students were previously educated in the independent sector. The boarding provision at the College has its origins in the military connections to Winchester, and in the past many students were the children of forces families. The withdrawal of UK forces from Germany (in particular) has reduced the proportion of students from a military background, but boarding remains full. Our recruitment ‘heat-map’ reveals significant ‘hot-spots’ of recruitment some distance from the College with Salisbury, Basingstoke, Eastleigh, Southampton and Fareham seeing significant numbers of applications. In socio-economic terms, the College’s intake is relatively affluent: 60% of our students are drawn from districts in the 25% least deprived nationally.
Context and Place. The National Drivers
Context and Place. Leicester Adult Education serves the residents of Leicester and the surrounding area reaching around 3000 learners per year (6000 enrolments) in each academic year. The map below highlights the distribution of learners across the city and surrounding area.
Context and Place. The National Drivers Levelling Up The Levelling Up White Paper sets out how to spread opportunity more equally cross the UK. It comprises a programme of systems change, including 12 UK-wide missions to anchor the agenda to 2030, alongside specific policy interventions that will assist to deliver change. The White Paper sets out a strategy to ‘rebalance the economy at a national scale’. There is a need to tackle the challenges faced by individuals and employers in the Borough locally. Levelling Up needs to be done from the bottom up. The College continues to respond to the levelling up agenda with activity underway including the Green Lane development for our construction offer and future plans linked to the location of our adult provision to the Town Centre. Skills for Jobs White Paper The Skills for Jobs White Paper outlines how Government propose to support people to develop the skills they need to get good jobs, including measures to: - • Give employers a greater say in the development of skills • Provide higher level technical skills • Provide a flexible, lifetime skills guarantee The focus on jobs and growth will be delivered by: - • Placing employers at the heart of the system so that education and training leads to jobs that can improve productivity and fill skills gaps. • Investing in higher-level technical qualifications that provide a valuable alternative to a university degree. • Making sure people can access training and learning flexibly throughout their lives and are well-informed about what is on offer through great careers support. Governments Plan for Jobs is focused on protecting, supporting and creating jobs across the country and sets out a range of Government programmes for skills and employment, some of which offer financial incentives for employers who are considering hiring employees, offering work experience or upskilling existing staff. West Midlands Strategic Economic Plan (SEP) sets out the vision for improving the quality of life of everyone who lives and works in the West Midlands. The plan shows how devolved power and resources will be used to deliver a stronger West Midlands, with a focus on skills, innovation, transport and inward investment. West Midlands Industrial Strategy sets out the Government’s long-term plan to boost the productivity and earning power of people in Britain and the West Midlands. It builds on the heritage of the region’s manufacturing, research and technology sectors. West Midlands Combined Authority ...