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We pride ourselves on delivering job-related qualifications in high-quality environments to enable our students to achieve a positive and bright future. Our staff and tutors are experts in their teaching area. They have prior experience in their industry, and they provide extensive support and guidance to enable students to succeed and progress onto the next stage of their career journey. We strongly believe in providing students with inspiring work experience, and this is possible due to our extensive links with employers. We also have our commercial facilities, such as our hair and beauty salons, which are open to the public members. Heart of Worcestershire College is a further and higher education college that offers full-time and part-time courses in diverse specialist subject areas. From courses for school leavers to affordable higher education and professional qualifications, we ensure our training is relevant to improve employability prospects significantly. We have campuses throughout Worcestershire, meaning we are the largest further education college in the County. Heart of Worcestershire College operates at four sites across the County of Worcestershire. With campuses in Bromsgrove, Redditch, Worcester, and Malvern, the College can offer many courses in various subject areas and several outstanding commercial facilities. Our vision is to provide skilled inspirational staff, high-quality facilities, innovative virtual learning platforms, and a relevant and vital curriculum offer that engages a wide range of school-aged, work-based, and adult students. This vision is to be delivered in cooperation with local schools, colleges, and partner providers. It will be steered and informed by key stakeholders and community planners' needs and voices, especially those of employers and our students. As well as providing our students with a real-life environment to complete their studies, many of our facilities are also open to the public. Whether you are looking for a fresh cut and color, a relaxing massage, or booking a three-course meal, our fantastic hair and beauty salons and our top class restaurants are well worth a visit. For more information and opening times, please follow the links. View full university

Since 1834, Worcester Academy has been nurturing students to excel and internalize those three qualities necessary for future success. How do we do it? "Achieve the Honorable," our school motto and the most recognizable phrase in our school lexicon, sits as the foundation of our core values – Honor, Respect, Community, Personal Growth, and Challenge. It's the phrase every member of the WA community is expected to live up to every day. Through our thoughtfully designed curriculum and an abundance of extra-curricular activities, we give our students an environment filled with expert guidance, plenty of options, and, of course, challenge. We develop cultural competency and a global perspective through our diverse community. Roughly 20% of our student body comes to us from outside the United States, so you'll be making friends with fellow students from Southborough to Somaliland. Our city campus allows every Hilltopper to experience the vitality, diversity, and excitement of a city rich in heritage, culture, and the Arts. Worcester Academy's mission is to instill in its students the desire to learn throughout life, to engage passionately with the world around them, and to be honorable persons of resourceful and robust character. We are a community – curious, thoughtful, generous, and thriving in our diversity. We embrace each of our core values as essential to the mission of Worcester Academy and as a testimony of our beliefs and commitments. We believe in every person's inherent worth, celebrating differences in a community rich with diverse gifts and talents. We seek commonality in our relationships regardless of title, background, or individual abilities and challenges. We also accept responsibility for sustaining the world around us, from the campus to the global environment. The act of learning brings all members of this community together. We share a belief in the importance of serving others through both leadership and generosity. A respectful and compassionate approach to citizenship guides our actions on this campus and the broader world. Personal growth may be measured in many ways. The most authentic, however, is when we are true to ourselves. We seek to fulfill our potential by building mind and body habits that promote growth in knowledge and understanding, ability and confidence, poise, and leadership. By doing so, we nurture a desire for life-long learning and a commitment to excellence in all phases of life. Attaining excellence in a changing global environment requires adaptability, creativity, and intellectual courage. We seek relevance in our work and provide a rigorous yet nurturing environment where we all may thrive. We value hard work and the disciplined application of knowledge and skills in our learning and institutional practices. Worcester Academy is a school that embraces its identity and tradition by teaching students to Achieve the Honorable in all that they do. Even as we evolve in the 21st century by implementing innovative classroom and operational practices, we remain true to our roots and our mission – to create lifelong learners who engage passionately with the world around them. Our faculty is instrumental in creating a rigorous academic program of great dimension with invaluable mentoring and support. Our teachers provide a broad perspective on the world, integrate technology, and push every student to be their very best selves. We are a world-class school preparing world-ready graduates. To do it right, the Academy must be an environment that revels in and learns from our many differences. In truth, we are a microcosm of the world. We are committed to our multicultural learning community and fully embrace our diverse and multi-talented student body. Our diversity includes, but is not limited to, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, family structure, socio-economic status, and ability. No matter who you are, when you are a Hilltopper, you are part of our family. In a world of change, how do we prepare Hilltoppers for their lives beyond Worcester Academy? Our academic approach creates life-long learners who thrive in an environment designed to give them every tool they need. We call it "Portrait of a Learner," and it encompasses all of these critical skills. We live in a global, digital, interconnected world, and we prepare our students for that world. Our faculty transform that fast-paced, global communication highway from four lanes down to one through thoughtful and innovative practices. We make the global-local by turning community experiences and basic lesson plans into impactful awareness of the world beyond. View full school

We aim to be an outstanding university at which to be a student. We concentrate on helping students achieve their potential and emphasize combining enduring human values with true professionalism. We make it clear from the beginning that we have high expectations of our students and staff, and we will offer you every support to achieve that goal. We are a truly inclusive university where every person counts as an individual. As an essential member of our dynamic community, you will have every opportunity to thrive and fully realize your potential. Worcester enjoys a national reputation as a friendly place where people are genuinely happy and feel that they can make a meaningful contribution. The assessors, who inspected the educational results for every University in England, found that Worcester "delivers high-quality teaching, learning and outcomes for its students" and "consistently exceeds rigorous national quality requirements for UK higher education." The panel noted that we excel at teaching, which encourages high levels of student engagement and commitment to learning and study, including "excellent levels" of contact time and schemes that involve students in the process of enhancing their own learning experience. E offers a truly innovative and effective 'earn as you learn' scheme, which provides our students with invaluable work experience, career development, and earning opportunities. Worcester graduates are consistently among the most employable in the country, with over 94.9% in work or continuing to study within six months of graduating. The culture and outlook of the University mean we listen very carefully to what students say about their studies and university life generally. Our courses and facilities are continually improved to take advantage of the latest thinking, technology, evidence, and research. The community spirit we have here at Worcester is renowned. Our staff and students are proud to be working and studying at the University. If you apply to study with us and are selected, you will be warmly encouraged to become part of a thriving social, cultural, and sporting environment. At the same time, you will gain the intellectual and practical skills and qualifications you need to succeed in today's world. The University has a well-managed investment program to provide for new, improved, and refurbished facilities. Completed projects include our City Campus, home to the Worcester Business School. The Hive, a joint venture between the University and Worcestershire County Council, provides a first-class, inclusive, internationally acclaimed resource for students, staff, and the wider community. The University of Worcester Arena offers both state-of-the-art facilities and an exceptional standard of universal accessibility. As well as providing excellent facilities for all areas of sports study, the Arena allows the University to offer unique services to local sports clubs in the community and elite and professional athletes. In its most recent report into the quality of our teaching, the Quality Assurance Agency praised us for our' continuous and systematic improvement of the student experience' and identified our approach to quality enhancement to be a critical factor in our good practice. Professor David Green, the University's Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, said: "In recent years the University of Worcester has consolidated its excellent national reputation for academic quality on our biggest programs, which educate future teachers, nurses, and midwives. This independent audit report studied the university's entire work at every level and across the range." View full university