2011-12 Annual Review

Annual Review 2011-12 THIS DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE IN ALTERNATIVE FORMATS AND LARGE PRINT. TELEPHONE +44 (0) 191 200 4000. NCG welcomes diversity - valuing differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief, class and age. We actively oppose discrimination, aim to remove all conditions that put people at a disadvantage, strive to improve access and to provide outstanding support. NCG is committed to ensuring equality of opportunity for all students, customers and employees. We are fully conversant with our obligations under the Equality Act 2010 and have developed a Single Equality Scheme in response to these obligations. NCG ANNUAL REVIEW 2011-12 WITH A TURNOVER OF MORE THAN £155MILLION, NCG IS ONE OF THE LARGEST EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYABILITY ORGANISATIONS IN THE UK Mission We aim to develop people NCG delivers national and unemployed people and through learning and regional education, skills and employers themselves. achievement for the benefit employment goals. We work of themselves, society and with individual learners of all Our Divisions: the economy. ages as well as every level of • Newcastle College employer from small family • Intraining Objectives firms to large multinational • West Lancashire College • Put the needs of the learner companies and Government • Rathbone and customer first departments. As a major • Newcastle Sixth Form College • Innovate and support national provider, we work excellence in learning across the UK to develop and employability the skills and education • Promote diversity and that the economy needs social mobility for future growth. • Value, involve and invest in our staff We deliver innovative • Foster strong relationships solutions that meet the with employers, partners needs of young people and and communities adults of all abilities, from Artist’s impression of the new • Secure our future through apprentices to technical Newcastle Sixth Form College, which strategic investment specialists, A Level students to is on schedule to open in the summer of 2013. and profitability postgraduate degree students, 01 INTRODUCTION 02 NCG ANNUAL REVIEW 2011-12 NCG comprises five divisions: • Two highly successful colleges - Newcastle College and West Lancashire College. • A market-leading, national provider of training and employment-related services, Intraining. • Rathbone, a UK-wide youth charity which helps young people between 14 and 24 back into education, employment or training. • Newcastle Sixth Form College, which meets the needs of more than 1,000 A Level students and opens a new state-of-the-art £25million centre in 2013. We have the largest Education Funding Agency (EFA) contract in the UK for delivering 16-18 education. NCG is one of the largest providers of skills and training in the UK, supporting more than 20,000 businesses and enhancing the lives, skills and prospects of more than 95,000 individual learners every year. We are a prime contractor for the Work Programme and deliver employment related services in the West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, the East Midlands and the East of England. Last year we helped 10,000 people back into work. We have the second largest SFA Adult Skills contract in the UK at £41million pa. We delivered more than 16,000 Apprenticeships across the UK in 2011-12. We have been awarded Foundation Degree Awarding Powers, which means we can develop and validate our own Foundation Degrees. 03 FORWARD Joint foreword from Jamie Martin, Chair of Governors and Jackie Fisher, Chief Executive, NCG 2011-12 has been a very 14-24 year olds currently not successful, yet challenging in education, employment year for NCG. The education or training. The focus of its landscape is increasingly work is with disadvantaged competitive and funding young people facing great which was traditionally personal challenges in terms allocated to colleges is now of their learning and social in the competitive tender support needs. arena. This has presented NCG with both challenges The merger creates an and opportunities to diversify. exciting opportunity for us to Double Gold Olympian, Dame Kelly It has ensured that we work with Rathbone to create Holmes officially opened West Lancashire continue to make a valuable life changing opportunities College’s £42.8m new building. contribution to the economy for thousands of young in the many communities people across the UK. we serve, that we provide the very best experience for NCG launched the learners and customers and Employment Gateway, one that we are at the forefront of the first of its kind in of Government and the education and training employer priorities. sector, in 2011. Utilising the significant expertise We are delighted to welcome of Intraining, Newcastle Rathbone to NCG this year. College and West Lancashire Rathbone is a UK-wide youth College, the Employment charity which works with Gateway provides hundreds 04 NCG ANNUAL REVIEW 2011-12 of unemployed people with term unemployed people into Our thanks go to each the necessary support to help sustainable employment. It and every one of you who them get back into work or was awarded significant new help to make NCG a leading training, or to gain essential SFA ESF contracts (Skills provider of education, employment skills. Support for the Unemployed training and skills. (SSFU) and Skills Support Since September 2011, we for Redundancy (SSFR)) and have continued to invest in participated in a variety of new facilities. This includes external audits, including the the new Newcastle Sixth quality assessment Merlin, for Form College, which is on which it received an overall schedule to open in the result of Good. Jamie Martin summer of 2013. Chair of Governors In March 2012, Double Gold NCG was also given Secretary Olympian, Dame Kelly of State approval this year to Holmes, officially opened create the Discovery School. West Lancashire College’s Specialising in Science, £42.8m new campus. Engineering and IT, the Dame Jackie Fisher Discovery School will give Dame Kelly met with staff Chief Executive young people aged 14-19 a and students at the Olympic- chance to excel in a school that themed event and was encourages learning through extremely impressed with real world industrial projects, the new facility, which helps designed in conjunction to improve the life chances with employers, as well as of thousands of young traditional classroom teaching. people in Skelmersdale and its surrounding areas. Intraining celebrated the first full operating year of We couldn’t do any of the Work Programme, which this without a strong and has helped hundreds of long committed workforce. 05 NEWCASTLE COLLEGE NEWCASTLE COLLEGE IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST PERFORMING FE COLLEGES IN THE UK Key Facts • We have over 20,000 students and 1,500 employees. • We work directly with over 1,000 businesses and train the future workforce for thousands more. • We are the largest provider of HE in the FE sector and one of the first colleges to be able to validate and develop our own Foundation Degrees. • National school and North Banks of the Tyne, • 93% of HE students college tables have ranked which specialises in progress into employment Newcastle College as the offshore, wind engineering and further study. best performing general and sustainable technologies. • 97% of our HE students FE college for 16-18 year • We have an ongoing campus state that they receive high olds for the last three investment programme to quality teaching and training. years in a row. create inspirational learning • We teach students from over • We are a Beacon college – environments with cutting- 44 different countries across one of only a few colleges edge facilities. the world. in the country to have been • We have excellent links • 92% of employers would awarded this status. with employers. recommend Newcastle • We offer Foundation, • We have the widest range College for training. Honours and Postgraduate of school leaver courses in • An OFSTED report in Degrees. the North East. August 2012 confirmed: • We are one of the first • We offer over 200 part- “The College makes a colleges in the UK to be time, evening, weekend significant contribution to awarded Foundation Degree and day-time courses for improving the life chances Awarding Powers. adult learners. of a large number of young • Our Student Services team • In 2012, Newcastle College people and adult learners is accredited for Matrix, the became a hub for the Peter as well as being a strong standard for Information, Jones Enterprise Academy. local catalyst for economic Advice and Guidance. • We offer competitive growth especially in key • We recently opened the tuition fees for higher sectors like aviation and Energy Academy on the education students. renewable energy.” 06 NCG ANNUAL REVIEW 2011-12 07 CASE STUDY NEWCASTLE COLLEGE Air Cabin Crew student Emma Graham said: “This course has given me a real sense of confidence when dealing with the public, as well as a belief and determination to join a luxury airline cabin crew.” Newcastle College trains over three hundred aviation and travel students each year in partnership with Newcastle International Airport Newcastle International programmes such as the Abi said: “The fact that Airport has worked in Ambassador Scheme giving the course allows you to partnership with Newcastle Newcastle College students experience life in such a busy College since 2001 to create the chance to sample life international airport is really a ‘one stop shop’ for the skills as a customer service exciting and gives your

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