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EAST SUSSEX COLLEGE GROUP STRATEGIC STATEMENT INTRODUCTION. CONTENTS PAGE

Education “ College was created in 2018 THE to serve the many People communities of East Sussex and provide Infrastructure an exceptional COLLEGE educational Communication experience for young people, young adults FOR EAST Finance and lifelong learners to drive and shape Governance their personal and career aspirations.” SUSSEX. What Are The Likely Priorities for? communities hard. It We are proud to launch is a progressive and is the College’s role to our new strategic respond to this critical plan consultation and proudly values-led time with a focussed offer want to hear from as organisation. We that drives and inspires many stakeholders as are here to serve potential and opportunity. possible; current and the distinct needs As a community hub, the future students, our and ambitions of decisions we make and team members, parents, what we chose to do with employers, school David Smith all of the people, our resources matters now partners, public service Chair of ESC organisations, and more than ever. partners, social, health, communities of sporting, and cultural East Sussex. Our new College strategy stakeholders. is rooted in ambitious Since our formation as a transformation so that College in 2018 we have we deliver; worked hard to build trust, • A consistently brilliant improve the quality and student experience clarity of our education and skills offer so that • A newly aligned we are recognised as the education and skills Rebecca Conroy ‘engine’ of East Sussex offer CEO & Principal ESC regeneration. • Investment and support of our people The Covid Pandemic and Brexit on top of a decade • Transformation of our of austerity have hit our buildings and digital capability

EDUCATING EAST SUSSEX INTRODUCTION.

East Sussex College has distinct and unique campuses in , Newhaven, and . This strategy outlines East Sussex College’s ambitious strategic intentions for the next phase of our journey ready for broad and deep discussions with our colleagues, students, parents/carers, employers, strategic partners, and local community leaders. As a learning organisation we will be listening intently to this feedback to inform our future direction. The results of this consultation will form the basis of our new Strategic Plan 2021-24. Through the life of this new plan, we will be developing new learning spaces, learning approaches, and learning platforms.

We will ensure that our curriculum offer develops the skills, knowledge, and behaviours that employers locally, regionally, and nationally tell us they need. Inclusion and diversity are at the core of everything that we do and reaching out to support every member of our community is central to the College’s mission.

The significant impact that COVID has already had on our local economies means that the stakes are very high. We have a huge responsibility to be agile and responsive to the needs of local people, employers and to be a conduit to drive high quality skills development, retraining opportunities and positively contribute to the local health and wealth of our communities. We take this responsibility extremely seriously. We very much look forward to ongoing dialogue with you to shape the future of our College and make sure that it delivers the very best service for the people that we serve.

EDUCATING EAST SUSSEX EDUCATION. PEOPLE.

EDUCATION PEOPLE “Design and deliver inspiring “Empower and inspire East career pathways to ensure Sussex College colleagues that East Sussex College to deliver excellence and students are equipped with feel proud of their College the knowledge, skills and by being an excellent behaviours (KSBs) to achieve employer.” personal, economic, and civic success.”

• Establish campus identities and specialisms with clear • Develop a culture in which workload management, curriculum pathways from entry to degree level, to reflect wellbeing and work-life balance is prioritised and and regenerate the economies we serve. co-created.

• Deliver innovative, engaging, and flexible programmes to • Develop empowering and supportive and personalised fuel the aspirations of every East Sussex College student. Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to promote career progression and staff retention. • Work in partnership with employers, Universities and other stakeholders to develop industry specific placements, a • Enable and support an entrepreneurial, problem broad range of enrichment and careers activities and deliver solving approach where people’s ideas, contributions an exceptional student experience. and efforts are valued and celebrated.

• Enhance the range of apprenticeships and adult skills and lifelong learning programmes to meet current and future economic and social needs.

EDUCATING EAST SUSSEX INFRASTRUCTURE.

INFRASTRUCTURE “Transform the East Sussex College estate and infrastructure to provide exceptional, flexible, efficient, learning spaces and platforms that inspire staff, students and community partners.”

• Create exemplar sustainable campuses at the heart of our communities with flexible and efficient learning and social spaces, including opportunities to co-locate with our public, private or third sector partners.

• Provide a digital framework with capability that facilitates the college as a physical and virtual learning and working environment.

• Develop a whole College approach to climate change mitigation and take action on learning & teaching, operations, responsible investment and renewable opportunities.

EDUCATING EAST SUSSEX COMMUNICATIONS.

COMMUNICATIONS “Position East Sussex College at the heart of our communities, as a key strategic partner with a strong reputation for excellence, responsiveness, and student success.”

• Enhance East Sussex College’s reputation through effective communications, showcasing the value we add to people’s lives.

• Engage our wide range of stakeholders in the development and delivery of our curriculum offer, estates strategy and wider strategic planning to ensure community alignment and buy-in.

• Deliver an effective marketing and communications strategy that celebrates and recognises our diverse student and staff and our campus personalities.

EDUCATING EAST SUSSEX FINANCE. GOVERNANCE.

FINANCE GOVERNANCE “Secure strong financial “Provide strong and effective foundations that ensures governance to ensure East Sussex College’s long- that East Sussex College term sustainability to invest delivers excellence for our in its students, people and communities of students, infrastructure.” staff and stakeholders.”

• Ensure effective financial models, controls, processes and • Establish ambitious Performance Measures for the business systems are in place to significantly improve College and support and challenge the CEO and financial health and the College’s ability to invest. Executive team to achieve these.

• Nurture community wealth in collaboration with Local • Ensure the effective recruitment, retention, and Authorities in terms of local procurement, employment, training of values-led, committed governor experts and training. to meet the needs of this strategic plan.

• Instil an entrepreneurial spirit into the financial model to • Enable and empower governors to be effective encourage the development of new products and services community ambassadors who actively support to meet the needs of students and stakeholders. and promote the college within their networks.

EDUCATING EAST SUSSEX HASTINGS EAST SUSSEX COLLEGE

HASTINGS SPECIALISMS

THE NOW AT HASTINGS CAMPUS

As a provider of extensive further in Hastings with nearly 400 studying skills education services, East Sussex College programmes in these key employment will always offer a broad, inclusive and sectors. We also offer apprenticeships in responsive curriculum. However, we want these areas and degrees in Engineering. to provide clarity around our campus Like its Eastbourne counterpart, Business specialisms, in terms of growth and Services are also popular areas of study, development areas to meet local needs. thanks to the Coast Restaurant and Beauty Therapy services onsite at our Station Plaza Hastings is renowned for being a creative site. We also have strong preparation for and cultural hub, so it’s no surprise that the work programmes for young people,with a college’s Higher Education provision reflects strong focus on independence and boosting this, with our wide-ranging Visual Arts employability skills. Our wide range of programmes being a popular progression adult learning opportunities also provide route for our strong art, design and digital opportunities for all ages to gain new skills programmes for young people. With the or develop a hobby and we deliver a wide outstanding facilities at our Ore Valley range of pre-employment programmes site and Automotive Training Centres in partnership with employers under our Construction and Engineering has the £1m pledge to support the local economic largest number of 16 -18-year-old students recovery following the Covid pandemic.

9,388 students across ESC ESCG HASTINGS ADULT STUDENT NUMBERS 34% of ESC 16-18 students study at Eastbourne 38% of ESC adult learners study at Eastbourne 62% of ESC HE students study in Eastbourne

16-18 ESCG HASTINGS STUDENT NUMBERS

1,344 total

1,683 • Renowned Health, Care & Sport total courses, with pioneering industry placements.

• Outstanding Construction and Engineering workshops with industry-standard tools, machines and equipment.

• Fantastic facilities for the creative arts, including printing presses, pottery wheels and photography darkrooms.

Students celebrate A-level results day success.

THE FUTURE AT HASTINGS CAMPUS

The Hastings campuses will focus on • Engineering - Building upon the existing developing the following curriculum range of programmes that provide a local specialisations, building on, or adapting progression routes to full Degrees our Ore significant areas of expertise in our Valley campus will develop specialist T Levels existing, excellent and modern facilities: in partnership with the cluster of specialist advanced manufacturing employers in the • Green Construction, Energy and town. Transport – Our Ore Valley campus is already a market leader in construction and • Significant growth in adult skills training engineering and will become a centre of especially in Engineering, Construction, excellence in retro fitting and green energy Health, Care, Art and Digital Design and installation thanks to a £3m Town Deal Business focused programmes. capital investment to redesign the campus which will enable the consolidation of two • Special Educational Need and Disability small satellite centres. (SEND)provision -The campus already houses an excellent specialist 16-24 SEND • Art & Design –building on a strong history unit and this will continue to be developed of delivery across visual arts and design with and expanded to include more employment pathways to full Degrees at our University and preparation for adulthood focused Centre Hastings on the Station Plaza site. programmes.

• Business and the visitor economy – providing the workforce for the post covid countywide visitor economy as a market leading provider of Accountancy, Hospitality and Catering, Hair & Beauty with industry standard facilities.

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ESC PUTS STUDENTS VALUABLE WORK PLACEMENTS AT THE CENTRE OF Students have every opportunity to fuel EVERYTHING WE DO. their ambition and work towards achieving their goals. They can push and challenge themselves during valuable industry WE AIM TO INSPIRE, placements at a multitude of employers, thanks to the college’s contacts and INCLUDE, CELEBRATE, partnerships. AND MOTIVATE ALL Make-Up Artistry students, like Charlotte Beams, fine-tune their talents in the OUR STUDENTS WITH commercial salons at Station Plaza and put this learning into practice by making up ENGAGING SOCIETIES, touring actors and actresses at the Stables Theatre and Arts Centre.

CLUBS, ACTIVITIES, TRIPS, Forest. skills in the New teamwork Improving Construction students studying at the Ore WORK PLACEMENTS. Valley campus not only get to learn their trade in 7,000sq ft of realistic working environment, but they also have the BUSINESSES WE WORK WITH opportunity to put this learning into practice with fantastic local and national employers. Plumbers, carpenters, and bricklayers worked • BARRATT HOMES on-site with Barratt Homes to create new houses in Bexhill. • BRITISH GYPSUM

• FREEDOM LEISURE INSPIRING TRIPS

• STABLES THEATRE AND ARTS CENTRE Sport & Public Service students, like Francesca Doughty, do as much learning • EAST SUSSEX FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE outside the classroom as they do in it, with incredible trips right the way through the year. They improve their teamwork skills during extreme sports such as rock Sport & Public Services student Francesca Doughty. Sport Public Services Francesca student & climbing, coasteering and kayaking, and at the end of each year, they undertake an unforgettable challenge of climbing one of the UK’s highest mountains, Snowdon.

Catering students visit the foodie sights of London to see various street markets and step inside some of the most prestigious hotels in the capital. They get to visit rural Michelin star restaurants and cater for fish lovers during the Hastings Seafood and Wine Festival.

As well as visiting top London galleries & at Hastings Seafood students Catering Wine festival. such as the V&A, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Tate Modern, Art students are inspired by local galleries such as the Towner, De La Warr, and . Plus, each year, one lucky student wins a two-week scholarship at an art school in New York.

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The college has built a supportive environment that ensures students’ success is celebrated. Awards evenings, celebratory lunches and dinners, and end of year exhibitions are important ways the

college celebrates its students. joined the Ward Benn student academy Football FC. side Burnley League Premier of academy

Recently, two of the East Sussex College Hastings football academy made a move into professional football. Benn Ward joined the academy of Premier League side Burnley FC, and Davide Rodari joined League 2 side Crawley Town.

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WATCH year. place every take celebrations MiniFest SPORT & PUBLIC SERVICES STUDENT FRANCESCA DOUGHTY

WATCH HASTINGS FOOTBALL ACADEMY’S DAVIDE RODARI

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DEVELOPMENT AT HASTINGS CAMPUS

A near £60m investment package completely redeveloped our Hastings Campuses, and we moved into these amazing facilities in 2011. These campuses have been designed with our students in mind and boast real-life working environments. The Ore Valley site has well equipped, industry-standard construction and engineering workshops. Our Station Plaza campus has five floors of teaching facilities, including kitchens, salons and part of an Airbus A320! Whilst these flagship facilities remain state of the art, we do have plans to revise and improve elements of them over the next three to five years.

Thanks to Town Deal funding we are currently making some change to our the Station Plaza campus, next to Hastings Station, including the re-configuration of the ground floor to provide a conference facility, serviced office space for business and community organisations and moving Now: Birds-eye view of our Station Plaza campus. our commercial gym to the ground floor for increased access for our customers.

This work will also relocate the towns Tourist Information Centre into this campus, providing our students with real work experience as we begin to welcome visitors back following the Covid pandemic this summer.

We have also submitted a larger £3m bid for the Town Deal which will create a new Green Technology Training Centre at our Ore Valley campus in the town. This will provide new space for local people to gain new skills in emerging technologies linked to retrofitting in construction, green energy generation and electric vehicle technology to support our wider push to Net Zero by 2030. If successful this facility will be fully available by 2023/24 and will also enable us to relocate two other small satellite centres in the town to this campus.

Now: Birds-eye view of our Ore Valley campus.

NEW AUTOMOTIVE NEW CLASSROOM TRAINING CENTRE AT OUR SPACES AND WORKSHOPS ORE VALLEY CAMPUS

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EASTBOURNE SPECIALISMS

THE NOW AT EASTBOURNE CAMPUS

The Eastbourne campus features a photography studios, allow students to specialist construction hub. Dedicated express their creativity. While the eight workshops and live-build areas mirror incredible music recording studios, fitted realistic working environments. The with industry-standard mixing desks and brickwork centre, plumbing and gas sound equipment, mean students will have workshops, painting and decorating bays, every opportunity to excel in music. and engineering workshops all feature industry-stand tools and machinery for Being situated on Cross Levels Way students to learn their trade. means the college has fantastic links with neighbouring Wave Leisure and Eastbourne The creative subjects in Art and Music also General Hospital to provide exciting and offer some of the best facilities in the area. meaningful work placements in public Printing presses, pottery wheels, kilns, and health, sport, and exercise.

students across ESC 9,388 ESCG EASTBOURNE ADULT STUDENT NUMBERS 31% of ESC 16-18 students study at Eastbourne 47% of ESC adult learners study at Eastbourne 27% of ESC HE students study in Eastbourne

16-18 ESCG EASTBOURNE STUDENT NUMBERS

1,420 total

• The automotive crash repair training centre in Eastbourne is now an IMI 1,223 (Institute of the Motor Industry) approved centre - the only one of total its kind at an FE college, locally!

• Music Production can be studied at degree level, making it a natural progression route for 16- 19-year-old students.

Students celebrate A-level results day success.

THE FUTURE AT EASTBOURNE CAMPUS

The Eastbourne campus will build upon • Business and the visitor economy existing areas of expertise and successful providing the workforce for the post-covid programmes in key career families by countywide visitor economy as the market developing the following curriculum leading provider of Accountancy, Hospitality specialisation: and Catering, Hair & Beauty with industry- standard facilities. • Health Sciences up to Level 5, working in partnership with the adjacent Eastbourne • Art specialisms in Visual Art and Music General District Hospital (EGDH) for unique Production, with ESC delivered progression industry placements to provide direct routes in Hastings and Eastbourne. pathways to defined careers including Nursing and the 14 allied health professions. • Significant growth in adult skills training especially in Engineering, Construction, • Sport Sciences to Level 4 in partnership Health, Care, Digital Design and Performing with Wave Leisure/Eastbourne Borough Arts and Business focused programmes. Council and the Clinical Commissioning Group offering health improvement focused • Special Educational Need and Disability Industry placements and progression to (SEND) provision - The campus already the renowned Chelsea School, part of the houses a specialist 16-24 SEND unit and this offer in Eastbourne. will continue to be developed and expanded to include more employment focused • Construction with a specialism around programmes. management and allied professions (including Surveying) to Level 4 with defined The development of these specialisms, pathways to HE programmes building on combined with enviable new facilities the successful roll out of the Construction ensures East Sussex College is the number Design T-Level in 2020/21. one choice, both now and in the future.

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ESC PUTS STUDENTS VALUABLE WORK PLACEMENTS AT THE CENTRE OF Students have every opportunity to fuel EVERYTHING WE DO. their ambition and work towards achieving their goals. They can push and challenge themselves during valuable industry WE AIM TO INSPIRE, placements at a multitude of employers, thanks to the college’s contacts and INCLUDE, CELEBRATE, partnerships. AND MOTIVATE ALL Fifteen Health & Social Care students gained first-hand experience in operating OUR STUDENTS WITH theatres in local hospitals during a 10-week placement with East Sussex Healthcare ENGAGING SOCIETIES, NHS Trust.

Hospitality & Catering students like CLUBS, ACTIVITIES, TRIPS, visit Budapest. students Business and Economics Jupiter Humphrey Bishop have worked in WORK PLACEMENTS. leading hotels such as The View and The Grand Hotel. Jupiter impressed during her placement and managed to secure a part- BUSINESSES WE WORK WITH time job while completing her studies.

• EAST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL INSPIRING TRIPS

• THE GRAND HOTEL Public Services students take their learning to new heights with expeditions and outdoor • THE NATIONAL TRUST adventurous activities across the beautiful South Downs. They also team up with • MORGAN SINDALL public services such as the Sussex Police and East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service • CUSTARD to host community events. Josh Ndubuisi, who aspires to join the police force, also benefited from the expert guidance and coaching from his tutor, Zoe Carroll. Zoe is

a life coach and helps her students prepare Bishop. Humphrey Jupiter student Catering & Hospitality for careers in this challenging but rewarding industry.

Business and Economics students get inspired by educational trips at home and abroad. From visiting London’s business district to the Coca-Cola factory in Budapest, they get to see how some of the largest companies in the world do business.

Travel and Tourism students also see their industry in action by visiting BA i360 in Brighton, the London Eye, Thorpe Park, Gatwick Airport, the Emarites experience, Carroll Zoe Public Services tutor . Trek a Sahara completed recently and travelling abroad to Spain and Italy’s top tourism destinations.

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WATCH HOSPITALITY & CATERING STUDENT JUPITER HUMPHREY BISHOP

READ ABOUT PUBLIC SERVICES TUTOR ZOE CARROLL Public Services students join East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service. and Rescue Fire Sussex Public Services join East students

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DEVELOPMENT AT EASTBOURNE CAMPUS

Development plans for the Eastbourne campus reflect ESC positioning itself as a college of the future.

We are investing £1.2m this year focused on the first stage of improvements on our Eastbourne campus. This includes the relocation of our A-Level provision from its current position on the former site of Park College, to buildings at the heart of the campus. We are also investing in the redevelopment of the Eastbourne Sports Park which will house our Sport and Public Services students in a unique partnership with Eastbourne Borough Council and Wave Leisure, providing students with live work placements as well as training and fitness spaces. All of this is planned to be ready to welcome students from September 2021.

We have submitted an £8m bid to the Government to support our exciting phase two developments. These will include relocating our Hair and Beauty salons Birds-eye view of the Eastbourne campus, as it is now. to the main building at the front of the college, making the commercial venture easily accessible and visible to clients. Hospitality and Catering will relocate (subject to contract) to the Devonshire Park development in the town centre, providing a training kitchen and restaurant for tourists, theatre-goers and residents alike.

In addition, a brand new, three-storey building at the heart of the campus will house our art and design provision with construction also benefitting from refurbished facilities in Eversely House, including moving the brickwork studio there.

The wider student experience will also be enhanced with a covered courtyard, making an attractive social space for students between lessons.

All of this will be subject to further consultation in the autumn but it represents an exciting new era in the college’s history and we look forward to welcoming students and our wider Eastbourne community to be part of it. Artist impression of the new college layout, including a brand new three-storey building and covered courtyard area.

INSIDE THE COVERED COURTYARD NEW 3 STORY BUILDING & COVERED COURTYARD

GROVE HOUSE

RELOCATED BRICKWORK WORKSHOP ECAT HOUSE

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LEWES SPECIALISMS

THE NOW AT LEWES CAMPUS

East Sussex College aims to deliver Arts Centre being home to Music, Dance aspirational and challenging career and Drama subjects. Students appreciate pathways to equip students with the the opportunity to excel, and we provide Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours (KSBs) amazing opportunities to collaborate with to achieve personal, economic and civic Theatre Royal Brighton, Brighton Dome and success. Festival and the Royal Opera House Design, to name just a few! Beauty Therapy closely Like its sister campuses in Eastbourne and follow ESC’s success in the creative arts and Hastings, Lewes is an eclectic hub where the campus has produced the 2017 and 2019 academic subjects are run alongside winners of the WorldSkills Finals (known vocational courses, degrees and part-time as the ‘Education Olympics’)meaning ESC courses for adults. Lewes is our standout can claim that the world’s best young campus for A-Level provision, and has a Beauty Therapists train and study here. strong track record supporting students to Lewes remains most popular for its A-Level progress to a range of top universities. Lewes provision, and is established as a firm is also a leading campus for the creative favourite for students wishing to progress industries, its purpose-built Performing to university.

9,388 students across ESC ESCG LEWES ADULT STUDENT NUMBERS 28% of ESC 16-18 students study at Lewes 11% of ESC adult learners study at Lewes 11% of ESC HE students study in Lewes

16-18 ESCG LEWES STUDENT NUMBERS

345 total

• A renowned A-Level provider, with 40% of 1,071 students studying A-Levels in Lewes total • Health, Care & Sport courses are some of the best in the South East. Learn the knowledge, skills and behaviours in the classroom, and put them into practice on placement.

• Renowned for having a culture for excellence in Performing and Visual Arts.

Students celebrate A-level results day success.

THE FUTURE AT LEWES CAMPUS

The Lewes campus specialisms build upon our existing market share and teaching in Lewes including Hair & Beauty that will expertise at the campus, which requires benefit from enhanced facilities within the urgent estates development to counter estates strategy. competition from Brighton and Haywards Heath providers who will have better • The campus also has the smallest adult facilities by the start of 2021/22. offer of the main sites so there is significant growth potential at all levels, linking to • Our A Level centre of excellence, with a specialisms that exist in 16-18 provision broad range of subjects to meet the local including Art, Digital Design and Performing demand for high quality provision and Arts and a range of Business related excellent progression to top universities programmes.

• Art, Digital Design and Performing Arts The college has taken huge strides in – building on the strong and long history offsetting its carbon emissions and being a of excellence with provision expanding college of the future. Evolve Hair & Beauty, to degree programmes in Digital Design was the first of the college’s salons to gain and Performing Arts. The estates strategy eco status. The future is green, and Lewes will include vastly improved performance is proud to be leading the way! This green and studio facilities for students and the ethos, along with an expanded course offer community to use. and new, state-of-the-art facilities, means Lewes is a top choice for students choosing • A wider range of Business Services with a college, both now and in the future. pathways for all ages which are growing

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CLUBS, ACTIVITIES, TRIPS, additional Lifeguard qualifications. year. the of Photographer won Landscape Joshua Elphick

WORK PLACEMENTS. The college’s links with Brighton and Hove Albion also see students join placements with the community arm of the football BUSINESSES WE WORK WITH club. Business students were able to work on an exciting project to design an app for Albion In the Community. • AXA PPP HEALTHCARE

• ALBION IN THE COMMUNITY INSPIRING TRIPS

• THEATRE ROYAL BRIGHTON Students in Lewes boast excellent records in competitions whether they’re • SUSSEX POLICE regional, national or international! Beauty therapists Kaiya Swain and Rebecca West • EAST SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST achieved impressive consecutive wins at the WorldSkills Finals in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Performing Arts student Jordan Morris-Noone. Jordan Arts student Performing Lewes also enjoys ongoing success in the creative sector. Joshua Elphick was named Young Landscape Artist of the Year 2020, and his work features in railway waiting rooms across the Southern Rail. For the last seven years, art and design students have won top awards in the Royal Opera House design challenge. And Performing Arts students, like Jordan Morris-Noone, are able to follow their dreams of moving on to some of the top drama schools in the country - or in Jordan’s case, the Institute of the Arts in Barcelona. Sports student Sam Evans completed a work Sports a completed Sam Evans student Leisure. Wave at placement INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY

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WATCH SPORTS STUDENT SAM EVANS

READ ABOUT PERFORMING ARTS STUDENT JORDAN MORRIS-NOONE

READ ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY STUDENT JOSHUA ELPHICK Lewes Students Kaiya Swain & Rebecca West have both been crowned winners at winners both have been crowned West Rebecca & Swain Kaiya Students Lewes event. the Worldskills

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DEVELOPMENT AT LEWES CAMPUS

Exciting new development plans will set Lewes apart from our competitors and re-establish the campus as a centre of excellence.

Our Lewes campus is situated near Lewes Train Station and draws students from across the region to study with us. Whilst many of our buildings date from the 1930s and 1950s we have ambitious and innovative plans to redevelop our campus so that it becomes a community hub, with opportunities for all ages to study with ESC and develop new skills.

We are investing £700k this year to enable the college to close the Southover Building, which is situated on the other side of the road from the main campus. We are repurposing part of the main campus site to accommodate the courses and learning resource centre and this will be ready to welcome students in September 21. We have submitted an £9m funding application to Birds-eye view of the Lewes campus, as it is now. the Government for the second stage of development which, if successful, will be completed by September 2024. This will focus on refurbishing current buildings and building a new three-storey building at the heart of the campus. New frontage will offer a modern and attractive welcome to students and visitors. New social spaces also feature in the estates development plan, creating additional areas for students between lessons. All of this will be subject to further consultation in the autumn but it represents and exciting new era in the college’s history and we look forward to welcoming students and our wider Lewes community to be part of it.

Artist impression of the new College frontage.

NEW THREE STORY INFILL COURTYARD BUILDING AND NEW COLLEGE TO CREATE EXTENDED FRONTAGE TO PUBLIC SPACE LIBRARY, STUDY AND SOCIAL SPACES

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NEWHAVEN SPECIALISMS

THE NOW AT NEWHAVEN CAMPUS

As a provider of extensive further education services, East Sussex College’s offer will always be a broad, inclusive and responsive curriculum. We want to provide clarity on our campus specialism, in terms of growth and development areas to meet local needs. The Newhaven campus of East Sussex College is devoted to adult learners, the majority of which are studying preparation for work, English and Maths and. The campus is at the heart of the town’s regeneration project. There is currently no 16-18 provision, no day-release provision, or HE provision delivered from the Newhaven campus.

ESCG NEWHAVEN ADULT STUDENT PROVISION

• Newhaven will remain a specialist campus for adult learners, with direct links to planned regeneration in the town. 196

• Engineering will be developed as total an area of study at the Newhaven campus, working closely with local schools and employers.

12 of ESC 14 - 19 students study at Newhaven 184 of ESC 19+ students study at Newhaven

THE FUTURE AT NEWHAVEN CAMPUS

Newhaven will become a small, • Engineering and logistics specialist campus offer that programmes for adults linking directly links to the planned with local Employers and regeneration via the Enterprise opening up opportunities for Zone, Future High Streets and apprenticeships and 14-19 Town Deal Funds, and will include delivery. the following opportunities: • Increased adult skills training provision focused on basic level • Construction programmes directly skills, pre-employment with some linked to building programme professional qualifications e.g. expected as part of the Accounting. regeneration projects above.

ESTATES PLAN AT NEWHAVEN CAMPUS

We are working in partnership with Council, Sussex Community Development Association (SCDA) and other stake holders to explore the potential of moving to an alternative site at the old University Technical College (UTC) site, as part of wider regeneration plans in the town. Options are currently being discussed with local partners these will come forward in the next few months, as part of the wider estates strategy.

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NEWHAVEN STUDENT EXPERIENCE

ESC PUTS STUDENTS SUSSEX SKILLS SOLUTIONS

AT THE CENTRE OF Sussex Skills Solutions, the apprenticeship & training arm of the college, launched EVERYTHING WE DO. Skills for the Future, to give adult learners opportunities in the workplace. This has included successful recruitments with Boutique Modern in Newhaven. Sector- WE AIM TO INSPIRE, based work academies take place regularly at our Newhaven campus, and it was INCLUDE, CELEBRATE, through this that adult students learned about job opportunities with Boutique AND MOTIVATE ALL Modern. OUR STUDENTS WITH CAFE FRENCH CONVERSATION ENGAGING SOCIETIES, Lockdown didn’t put a stop to part-time CLUBS, ACTIVITIES, TRIPS, adult students eager to learn a language at the Newhaven campus. Classes moved WORK PLACEMENTS. online for 2020, and the students embraced it. Cafe French Conversation student, Peter Guinan, praises the part-time course at ESC Newhaven: “We are all grateful to the college for continuing our French studies. ADULT STUDENTS GET THE As an older person, I was reluctant to try Zoom, but Beatrice made it so easy for us. OPPORTUNITY TO COMBINE THEIR Of course, Zoom can never really replace attending the college In person. I miss the PASSION, HOBBY OR WORK WITH OUR buzz and the life that we feel and when attending the college, and the fun of PART-TIME COURSES IN NEWHAVEN. sitting behind a desk with my ‘classmates’, and the pleasure of learning with Bea, our wonderful, intelligent, ever cheerful Prof. But hopefully, those days will return again. In the meantime, thank you again for providing uswith these past 12 weeks which have kept our French Studies alive and kept our friendships going.”

“CAFE FRENCH CONVERSATION GIVES ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO PRACTISE MY FRENCH, AS WELL AS PROMOTE MY WORK WITH THE COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION (CWGC). I SPOKE ABOUT MY ROLE IN ONE OF THE CLASSES AND MANY PEOPLE WERE INTERESTED IN THE WORK WE DO.” MEGAN MALTBY

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