Strategy 2017 — 2020
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Strategy 2017 — 2020 1 ASKHAM BRYAN COLLEGE STRATEGY 2017 –2020 Contents Our goals 4 INTRODUCTION 4 OUR VISION STRATEGIC AIM ONE: 5 OUR VISION FOR OUR STUDENTS Delivering an outstanding student experience 1 through inspiring and excellent learning. 5 HOW WE MEASURE OUR SUCCESS 6 OUR MISSION STRATEGIC AIM TWO: 7 BACKGROUND Delivering employability – giving our students life 2 and work skills to make them successful in the future. 8 STRATEGIC AIM ONE 12 STRATEGIC AIM TWO STRATEGIC AIM THREE: Delivering a great place to work – developing and 14 STRATEGIC AIM THREE supporting our staff to enable them to deliver for 3 our students. 2 3 ASKHAM BRYAN COLLEGE STRATEGY 2017 –2020 Introduction At Askham Bryan College we are committed to ensuring that our students have a great experience and are provided with the work and life skills they need to live successful lives. We will support and nurture our students to ensure their success. We will listen to their views and respond to their needs and meet and exceed their expectations. We will work effectively with employers and Our strategy has been developed with the other partners to make sure we deliver the College’s Corporation and by listening to our relevant skills, qualifications and personal staff and our students and consulting with attributes which support wider participation our employers and other key stakeholders and and deliver economic growth. partners. We will ensure that the College is a great place We look forward to continuing to work with to work thereby encouraging the best staff to our students, staff, employers and other join us and stay with us. We will develop and partners for the continued success of our support our staff enabling them to deliver students and of Askham Bryan College. for our students and be innovative and enthusiastic in everything they do. “We will deliver a modern and relevant curriculum in a challenging and engaging way so our students will experience industry related teaching and learning in an educationally unique environment." LECTURER, OUTDOOR ADVENTURE SPORT 4 5 ASKHAM BRYAN COLLEGE STRATEGY 2017 –2020 Our vision for our students We will support our students to: ➔ Work in fulfilling roles that make the best use of their skills, knowledge and experience. Our Vision ➔ Be able to balance their own needs as their career and personal lives develop. To be the College of choice for ➔ Be equipped to respond to the changing requirements land related learning. of employers including, changes to technology and the economy. Understand the importance of fairness, equality, diversity and inclusion and to value the contribution everyone can make irrespective of their background. 6 7 ASKHAM BRYAN COLLEGE STRATEGY 2017 –2020 Our mission How we measure our success ➔ Provide our students with the very best land-based and land ➔ Our approach to delivering the strategy includes having related education, giving them the work and life skills they detailed outcome measures and holding ourselves to account need to lead successful and fulfilling lives. against these. ➔ Ensure diversity, equality and inclusion and to promote ➔ We will develop and report to the Corporation and to our social mobility, widening participation and supporting our staff and students through a high level set of indicators to students to succeed, irrespective of their background. evaluate our success and measure our impact. ➔ Create an environment which makes learning fun – enabling ➔ We will also measure success by asking our students and our students to have a great learning experience. other partners how they think we are doing and by checking our progress against our vision for our students, and our strategic aims. 8 9 ASKHAM BRYAN COLLEGE STRATEGY 2017 –2020 Background The next few years will present a period of change and uncertainty as we exit the European Union and whilst Government continues to develop and deliver policies impacting on the future of education, particularly with regard to funding and the delivery of apprenticeships. We will ensure that we work with our We are committed to digital learning, employers, funders, Government and other recognising that we are training our students key partners and that we adapt and change for roles that do not currently exist but all of to meet the needs of our employers locally, which will require digital skills. regionally and nationally whilst exceeding the During this period of change, we will look expectations of our students. for opportunities for the College and for our We will deliver the training and qualifications, students, in particular, in those industries work and life skills our students need to be and sectors which will be impacted by our successful. We will look to the future and be withdrawal from the European Union. innovative whilst continuing to nurture and By developing ever closer links with employers, support our students. funders and other key stakeholders we will We are committed to practical learning, maximise opportunities for innovation and recognising that our students need to enter development delivering for our students and the workforce with the practical skills needed for the communities which we serve. to add value to the employer from day one. “The College allows students to develop the skills to make life changing opportunities in the presence of those who will become lifelong friends.” LECTURER, COUNTRYSIDE AND GAME-KEEPING 10 11 ASKHAM BRYAN COLLEGE STRATEGY 2017 –2020 STRATEGIC AIM ONE: “I am now incorporating my learning into my working life and believe the apprenticeship route is an Delivering an outstanding excellent way to break the industry.” student experience. LEVEL 4, HIGHER APPRENTICE IN AGRICULTURAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 1 We will… ➔ Undertake a full review of our curriculum ➔ Continue to develop our curriculum to ➔ Continue to develop and build our study ➔ Support and enable our students to to ensure that it continues to meet the deliver high quality teaching and learning programmes providing enrichment and progress ensuring that they maximise their needs of the local, regional, and national from foundation through to degree level developing our students’ life skills. educational experience. economy whilst being forward looking, and beyond across a range of subjects and innovative and responsive in meeting qualifications. ➔ Continue to grow and develop our ➔ Prepare for and deliver any required our students’ aspirations. We will deliver foundation learning programme providing changes resulting from the introduction programmes which widen participation, ➔ Ensure that we invest in our student all students, irrespective of their academic of technical qualifications and T-Levels that are interesting and inspiring for our services so that they are accessible and achievements or backgrounds, access into ensuring the continued success of our students and which result in the growth of offer support to our students including education. students. our students numbers. career guidance, pastoral care and mental health services. ➔ Continue to work in partnership with the ➔ Establish an outcome driven culture of ➔ Continue to analyse market need and the Prince’s Trust; delivering programmes applied research and scholarship. expectations of our students and adapt and ➔ Build on our strength as a specialist which inspire participants back into change our curriculum – being agile and provider. This will include continuing education or into meaningful employment. responsive to opportunities and need. to grow and develop our apprenticeship programme and working ever more closely ➔ Develop a framework for quality and in partnership with local, regional and excellence – building on our successful national employers to meet their needs. Ofsted inspection which rated the College Over 96% as good. of students believe their course is well organised. ➔ Embed best practice which supports STUDENT PERCEPTION OF COLLEGE SURVEY 2017 equality, diversity, inclusion and social mobility ensuring the success of our students irrespective of their background. Over 82% of Higher Education students are satisfied with their course at Askham Bryan College. 2017 NATIONAL STUDENT SURVEY 12 13 ASKHAM BRYAN COLLEGE STRATEGY 2017 –2020 STRATEGIC AIM ONE: “I'd always wanted to go to Newton Rigg where the combination of classroom-based study and Delivering an outstanding outdoor experience are perfect.” student experience. EXTENDED FOUNDATION DEGREE, COUNTRYSIDE MANAGEMENT STUDENT 1 We will… ➔ Develop our higher education offer growing ➔ Listen to our students’ voice and treat ➔ Continue to develop links which enable ➔ Develop our estate to provide the best our student numbers by developing our students as equal partners in their students from overseas to study at the facilities for students either through innovative curricula supported by a robust education – actioning in a timely manner College. We will develop an international upgrading of our current buildings or academic infrastructure and in partnership and appropriate way their views and strategy which supports our students through new buildings where appropriate with industry. Quality will be underpinned opinions. studying and undertaking work placements and feasible – ensuring that we have the by the UK quality code for higher education abroad. best up-to-date facilities for our students, – informed by external sector bodies and ➔ Develop an environment that allows which optimise their learning opportunities, representative groups. our students to grow and flourish as ➔ Develop