Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education

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 believe firmly in putting you in control of your future, by offering you the best opportunities to learn, to gain experience of work and to 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 programme 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’m sure you’ll find a course here to suit you - and if you can’t find what you are looking for, then please contact me directly – you can do this through our website – and I’ll see what I can do!

Our College has many fantastic new industry-standard facilities. Whilst 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, as well as 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 that is 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:

• True responsiveness to the Student Voice through our extensive student representation systems, student governance and personalised learning model.
• A critical focus on skills whilst retaining a broad curriculum including a range of academic subjects.
• A new professional learning model focused upon application of learned skills within an industry standard, employer endorsed environment.
• Innovative ways of adding value to businesses (large and small), through, for example, the introduction of apprenticeships into workforce development plans and the development of bespoke learning provision tailored to an individual employer’s needs.
• A comprehensive Quality Framework integrating both assurance and improvement, centering upon Peer Review.
• A range of vocational kite marks, including National Awarding Body status, Training Quality Standards (TQS), 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 modernised teaching workforce with contemporary conditions of service.
• Excellent partnerships with employers, schools, the Education Authority, community organisations and other local organisations who make a difference to the success of The College so that the reputation and influence of The College is evident across the sub-region.
• Our role as a skills catalyst for the region’s response to globalisation through the development of international knowledge sharing partnerships which 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 certainly 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.