coleg gwent principal’s roadshow january 2010 1001-007

Coleg Gwent

Coleg Gwent

Principal’s RoadshowJanuary 2010

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Coleg GwentRoadshow: January 2010

• Performance in 2008/09

• Excellence in Teaching and Learning

• Sustainability Action Plan

• Internal Review

• Transformation

• The Weather

• Recruitment of new Principal

Coleg GwentPerformance in 2008/09:Students

General Further Education 2008/09 Target 2007/08

Student Completion 89 87 90Student Attainment 88* 85 82Successful Completion 78** 74 73

* 12% above 2007/08 National Comparator** 11% above 2007/08 National Comparator

Work Based Learning 2008/09 Target 2007/08

WBL Full Framework All 74 66WBL Full Framework FMA 70* 73WBL Full Framework MA 79** 60

* 2% above 2007/08 National Comparator** 16% above 2007/08 National Comparator

Coleg GwentKey Outcomes 2008/09

Success Rates by SSA

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Coleg GwentPerformance in 2008/09:Financial

2008/09 Target FinancialActual Strategy

Target

Operating deficit £(1,539)k £(2,356)k Breakeven(before FRS 17 adjustments)

Current Ratio 1.50 0.71 >1.0

Staff costs as a % of total income 63.4% 67.0% <65%(pre FRS 17)

Mainstream income as a % of 84.6% 85.0% <80%total income

Coleg GwentPerformance in 2008/09

Other recent success

• Beacon Award for the Promotion of Copyright

• Runner Up for Beacon Award for Staff Development

• RoSPA Gold Medal for Health and Safety

• ISO 9001 for Finance, IT and Estates teams;

• Re-assessment ISO 9001 for BDU and Quality teams

Coleg GwentExcellence inTeaching and Learning

3 Geoff Petty sessions in Autumn for • Technology• General Education• Business

INSPIRE

Leading Learning• Focus on teaching, learning and the learner experience• Three main areas: classroom observation, reflective practice and staff

development

INSET Day planning

Performance Review• ETHOS embedded

Coleg GwentSustainability Action Plan

• International Strategy approved by Corporation

• 2010/11 funding

• Project Groups set up• Curriculum Overview• Business Management and IT/OT• Independent Living Skills• Non-core DCELLS income• Support for Heads of School• Systems and Administration• Operating Expenses• Strategic Partnerships

Coleg GwentInternal Review

Scheduled in the week 15-19 March 2010

Led by Liz Kidd, ex-HMI Lead Inspector, with team of• internal peer assessors• peer assessors from partner colleges

Process• Lesson observation• Scrutiny of students’ work• Scrutiny of quality of files• Meeting with staff and students• Scrutiny of data• Emulates an Estyn inspection but adopting a developmental approach


Further Education

• Health, Public Services and Care

• Construction

• Leisure, Travel and Tourism

• Performing Arts

• Art and Media

• Basic Skills


Key Questions

• Key Question 1: How well do learners achieve?

• Key Question 2: How effective are teaching, training and assessment?

• Key Question 4: How well are learners cared for, guided and supported?

• Key Question 6: How well do leaders and managers evaluate and improve quality and standards?

• Will be informed by new Estyn framework, though will be based primarily on current Key Questions

Coleg GwentTransformation

Newport• Formed ‘alliances’ of providers across the city which gives wider choice• Successful implementation of shared A level provision between college

and south Newport schools• Seeking to embed by developing governance arrangements between

schools and closer links with campus

Monmouthshire• Learning Partnership between schools and college• Seeking to enhance vocational opportunities for learners


Blaenau Gwent• Full Business Case for The Learning Zone is being written• Capital Funding of £33.5m anticipated• Informal consultation on schools reorganisation completed December

2009• Formal consultation due in February 2010 which should lead to a tertiary

college model being adopted

Torfaen• Full Business Case for tertiary solution being written• Coleg Gwent working with the local authority on the business case• Big emphasis on digital learning as a key means of transformation


Caerphilly• 3 clusters of partnership schools established - surplus places to be

addressed• Plans for development of Welsh medium provision• Closer working with Coleg Gwent and Ystrad Mynach

Summary of all transforming projects published by WAG in November 2009:“Transformation - y Siwrnai”

Coleg GwentThe Weather

• First two weeks of 2010 college was open 1.5 days

• Newport, Crosskeys and Cwmbran open for exams

• Communication - website, social networking sites and local media

• Lessons for the future

Coleg GwentRecruitment of new Principal

• Governors appointment

• Vice Chair of Governors has been asked by Chair to advise on recruitment process

Coleg GwentRemember

The learner is at the heart ofeverything that we do at Coleg Gwent

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