Widening Access and Participation Agreement January 2017Access and Participation Agreement • January 17th, 2017
The RNN Group’s own Higher Education Strategy extends on the College-wide Widening Participation Strategy to enhance and extend opportunities to people in underrepresented groups and communities. The RNN Group serves a local community of 374,200 people of which 76.7% of the individuals are economically active. The Group operates from 5 main sites, the North Nottinghamshire Campus in Worksop, the Rotherham Campus, Dinnington Campus and the Rawmarsh Road and Shire Oaks Centres which are focused on construction trades. In the area served by the Group economic inactivity is 1.9% above the national average and the average wage is 9.3% lower than the national average for salaried staff and 8.8% lower for hourly paid. Full time employment in the area is higher than the national average with 71.8% of the jobs available being full-time against a national average of 67.7%. The largest employers are within the public sector followed by manufacturing, finance and IT and then distribution.
