Overview
City College Norwich has over 11,000 full time and part time students on a wide range of vocational, academic and professional courses. The College’s provision spans work with 14–16 year olds (around 1,000 of whom attend college one day a week whilst attending high school), full and part-time further education courses for young people and adults, higher education courses, apprenticeships and other bespoke training for employers. The college has around a 900 full and part-time staff.
Ofsted rates it as satisfactory (grade 3) on most criteria, but good for equality of opportunity. In such a large establishment, this overall grade covers a variability of results: so for instance in the latest inspection (2008), training in hospitality and catering was found to be good (grade 2), while science and Mathematics was judged inadequate at first, then satisfactory in a 2010 reinspection.
The College has one of the most developed and independent Students' Unions in the country within Further Education in terms of representation, staff, activities, active participation, finance, and services. In 2010, the Students’ Union was named a runner-up in the NUS Further Education Union of the Year award.
Read more about this topic: City College Norwich