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Successful Partnerships
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Highbury College & Gert Sibande College
British Council Skills Festival
18 July 2014
Agenda
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Welcome
Overview of the partnership
Our Colleges
What we did
Benefits of the partnership
Learning
The future
Partners
Highbury College, Portsmouth
North Hertfordshire College
Gert Sibande College
Sisonke Partnership (MerSeta)
Overview of the partnership
• Raise the profile and reputation of Gert Sibande
FET College as a key change agent in the local,
regional economy and beyond by:
- Sharing best practice in quality systems
- Improving the quality of teaching & learning
- Improve initial advice, guidance and support
- Capacity building for management
- Develop & utilising appropriate ICT
About Highbury College
• Mission to enable students to succeed
• Her Majesty’s Inspectorate Ofsted has graded
us Grade 1 Outstanding
• High Success Rates – Highest in South East of
England
• Offer courses at all levels from entry to higher
education
• Strategic priorities include Student Success,
Growth, Innovation & Enterprise, Leadership
and Financial Health
About North Hertfordshire College
• Mission: an entrepreneurial college, where the ethos,
values and culture of students, tutors and leaders is
distinctively geared towards the task of wealth creation,
business formation and employment outcomes
• Strategic priorities: teaching & learning transformation,
student and employer engagement, workforce
development and growth
• Investors in People Gold, with a highly entrepreneurial
and innovative culture
• Student success makes us one on the highest
performing colleges in the country
• Over 3,000 Full time 14-16 students,
2,500 apprentices and three schools
About Gert Sibande College
• Purpose: To skill people for work
• Situated in Rural, Semi-Industrial and Farming
Area
• Success Rates: Top Performing College in
Province and rated amongst 5 best colleges from
the 50 in the country
• Offer programmes for approximately 9000 students
enrolled for Vocational, Occupational,
Learnerships, Artisan and Skills Programmes
The Focus
• Use of technology to enhance teaching and
learning
• Visits
• Self evaluation
• Whole College approach to outstanding teaching &
learning
What we did
Initial visit to UK by the Principal and Vice Principal of
Gert Sibande – this allowed us to:
- Organise visits to both Colleges
- Share experiences
- Review the original project plan and agree
changes necessary which better suited our
needs
What we did (cont.)
• Principals of both UK Colleges visited Gert
Sibande and set the strategic vision
• Vice Principal of North Hertfordshire College
(NHC) was guest speaker at Gert Sibande College
on ICT
• Conducted workshop for Senior Campus
Management and Section Heads on realizing the
vision of an Entrepreneurial College
Benefits of the partnership
Significant learning has taken place among
managers and teachers such as:
• Sharing best practice – learning from each other
• Improving quality of teaching and learning for
future students
Dissemination
This project has been shared with many differing
stakeholders such as:
General public – via press releases
Other Colleges – Via Association of Colleges network
Employers – via direct contact , newsletters and
Expert Advisory Boards
Policy Makers in Higher Education
Teachers
Skills Agencies
Next Steps & Future
• This project has allowed us to plan joint projects to
work on for the future these include:
• Development of Learning Companies
• Joint curriculum projects
• Student study exchanges
• Teachers attending UK Teaching Conferences
Some members of the project team
Contact Details
Jackie Page
Regional Director UK
Business Development
(Project Lead)
Highbury College
Alison Winter
Head of Quality, Teaching,
Learning and Higher
Education
Highbury College
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