Key Facts
- Category A financial status
- £75 million campus across six sites
- Officially named top college for Apprenticeships in the region
- Most successful Train to Gain provider
- Awarded RFU Beacon College Status Awards
- FA Charter Standard College
- Founder College for the National Skills Academy for Creative and Cultural Skills and partners of Dance City, The Sage Gateshead and Live Theatre
- North East lead provider for National Skills Academy: Manufacturing
- Partnering with the Academy of Music and Sound, launched the North East academy, one of only seven specialist music academies in the UK.
- Centre of Excellence in Teacher Training in partnership with Sunderland University
- Achieved Training Quality Standard with excellence in Automotive, Skills and Engineering.
- Launched UK’s first Electric Vehicle Apprenticeship in partnership with Smiths Electric Vehicles.
- Winner of two National Training Awards for Larger Employers and Partnerships Collaboration
- Preferred training provider for Nissan UK Ltd.
- The LowCVP Low Carbon Champions Awards 2011 - Low Carbon Road Transport Initiative of the Year
- Won 3 Travel Plan Awards – 2 bronze and a silver
- LSIS Leading the Learner Voice Awards 2011 for Health and wellbeing
- Awarded NHS Better Health at Work Gold Award
- Awarded a 5* Health & Safety standard from the British Safety Council
- Overall winner at the Culture for Success Awards 2009
- CIPD Award for HR&D Excellence through innovation or technology 2010
- CIPD Award for HR& D Excellence through Rewards and Benefits 2011
- CIPD Awards for HR & D Business of the Year 2011
- One of the Sunday times Best places to work in the public and third sector list.
- Awarded Investors in People- Bronze Award
- AoC Beacon Award for excellence in staff development
- Launched the Gateshead College Foundation charity to help support students
- Awarded JISC RSC e-Responsibility Award 2012
Read more about this topic: Gateshead College
Famous quotes containing the words key and/or facts:
“It so happened that, a few weeks later, “Old Ernie” [Ernest Hemingway] himself was using my room in New York as a hide-out from literary columnists and reporters during one of his rare stopover visits between Africa and Key West. On such all-too-rare occasions he lends an air of virility to my dainty apartment which I miss sorely after he has gone and all the furniture has been repaired.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)
“The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.”
—William James (1842–1910)