Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education

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Your future is in your hands! Just by considering City College Norwich, you have already taken the first step towards a brighter future. Ours is a College where we firmly believe in putting you in control of your future by offering you the best opportunities to learn, gain experience of work, and succeed in your chosen course. There is a whole world of opportunity waiting for you here at City College Norwich. Whatever your interest, whatever your ambition, we have the right program for you. Our College is highly regarded for its breadth of courses: we have the widest choice in Norfolk! Whether you want to follow a purely academic route such as A-Levels or focus on developing job-specific skills through a vocational course, I am sure you will find a course here to suit you - and if you cannot find what you are looking for, then please contact me directly – you can do this through our website – and I will see what I can do!

Our College has many fantastic new industry-standard facilities. While our College has been around in the city of Norwich for over 125 years, a lot of the buildings and facilities on our main campus have been built or newly refurbished within the last couple of years. Students visit our high-tech StartUp Lounge for a wide range of experience of work activities and inspiring talks and support for employability skills, and more. Creative and performing arts students now have a stunning new, award-winning, Creative Arts Building in which to learn. Our College also has an impressive new green heart, along the newly redeveloped Broadland Drive, which is the hub for a whole range of student-led and College events. Superb facilities would be nothing without superb staff – and we have those too! Professional, friendly, and supportive teachers deliver high-quality teaching and training in a friendly and supportive environment designed to meet your individual needs.

We have established ourselves as a progressive college, and our aspirations remain high. Over the last five years, we have developed:

• Proper responsiveness to the Student Voice through our extensive student representation systems, student governance, and personalized learning model.
• A critical focus on skills while retaining a broad curriculum, including a range of academic subjects.
• A new professional learning model focused on applying learned skills within an industry-standard, employer endorsed environment.
• Innovative ways of adding value to businesses (large and small), through, for example, introducing apprenticeships into workforce development plans and the development of bespoke learning provision tailored to an individual employer’s needs.
• A comprehensive Quality Framework is integrating both assurance and improvement, centering upon Peer Review.
• A range of vocational kite marks, including National Awarding Body status, Training Quality Standards (QTS), five National Skills Academies, three Centres of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs), and two National Training Awards.
• Enhanced facilities and resources, including our innovative St Andrews House accommodation.
• A modernized teaching workforce with new conditions of service.
• Excellent partnerships with employers, schools, the Education Authority, community organizations, and other local organizations make a difference to the success of The College so that the reputation and influence of The College are evident across the sub-region.
• Our role as a skills catalyst for the region’s response to globalization is to develop international knowledge-sharing partnerships that provide mutual benefits to our students here and those abroad.

So, our College has all its ‘building blocks’ in place. We have made significant progress, but we aspire to some demanding goals. Moreover, we cannot deliver the quality improvements outlined in this document without our staff and our business, education, and community partners. It is now time for us all to grab the future with both hands and transform City College Norwich into one of the best – the best our fantastic students undoubtedly deserve.

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