At Nottingham College, we’re proud to work with a number of partners providing quality training and courses. Find out more about our partners below.
Academy Transformation Trust Further Education (ATTFE) strives to raise the aspirations and achievements of the communities that it serves within the North Nottinghamshire area and is invested in supporting community regeneration and cohesion through lifelong learning.
ATTFE provides high quality, innovative education and training for learners who are aged 16+ (including adults). We take a learner-centred approach towards education and lifelong learning opportunities that supports the learning needs of the local environment and have a secure track record of high learner retention and success.
You can visit the Academy Transformation Trust website here.
DBC Training (DBC), has been supporting people into employment and onto skills since 2000. We have helped improve the lives of over 30,000 individuals and supported over 6,000 businesses to recruit and upskill their employees and reach their potential. DBC is an award-winning employment and training provider, offering high-quality employer solutions to improve productivity and learner solutions to support individuals to fulfil their potential. Our mission is “To SPARK potential and develop talent, to transform lives and fulfil aspiration”.
The people at DBC are fundamental in developing excellent products and services that successfully support employers to grow talent for their businesses and subsequently support the communities in which they work and economic growth.
Our Vision
The overall vision for DBC Training is to be an innovative market leader who excels at creating flexible approaches to an ever-changing labour market; through delivering quality advice and guidance, training and business solutions to "deliver better choices and create brighter futures”.
Our Mission
“To SPARK potential and develop talent, to transform lives and fulfil aspiration’
Our Values
- Sustainable Futures for All
- Putting Learners First
- Achieving Excellence
- Results Focused
- Kicking Down Barriers
Visit the DBC website: https://www.dbc-training.co.uk
For nearly 20 years GRA has successfully delivered high quality, community based, basic skills qualifications to over 1,200 learners per year.
We currently focus on delivering all levels of Functional Skills English and /or Maths from basic entry 1 to GCSE grade 4 [C] equivalent Level 2 to learners aged 19+. Upon successful completion, learners receive a Nationally Recognised Qualification
Delivery is based in the Midlands area and is varied and flexible to suit the needs of most learners – this includes evening, weekend, classroom and online options. All delivery options are supplemented by comprehensive resources for study in the learner’s own time and pace
Learners with weak English and/or Maths often face additional challenges in entering further education and frequently have to settle for low paid work with poor job security and prospects. By improving their basic skills, learners are able to upskill and either progress to further learning and/or secure, improved and sustainable employment
Visit the GRA website: www.gragb.com
Pathway Group have been at the forefront of supporting individuals in upskilling and reskilling for over 20 years. Operating as both a Prime and Subcontractor, we are a national provider of flexible, high-quality learning solutions.
The Pathway Group aspires to be an organisation that Changes Lives Through Skills and Work with the aim of becoming an indispensable partner of choice. It is important that all staff work together to create a positive, entrepreneurial culture which is responsive to the needs of the local, regional, and national economy. This drives everyone from across the business to understand the difference we collectively make and how this impacts upon our outcomes.
We aim to work with learners to encourage and advance, employment and training opportunities leading to mutually beneficial outcomes for both the individual and the employer.
Visit the Pathway First Limited website.
Established in 1987 and acquired in 2022 by Learning Curve Group, White Rose Beauty Colleges has now joined one of the largest and most prestigious independent beauty therapy training providers in the UK - Learning Curve Group Hair and Beauty Academies.
Training over two thousand learners a year, across six centres of excellence, the academies are all located in stunning accommodation across central locations with cutting edge facilities.
Offering the highest quality training no matter your starting point, these academies support both adults and young people who are ready to make a career for themselves in an industry with high standards, providing the skills to be world class in your chosen path.
Recognised by all within the industry as outstanding, with extensive links to a network of employers, their programmes are available on a full-time, part-time, or evening basis to allow for maximum flexibility.
They offer training with all major awarding bodies and is a “centre of excellence” with ITEC, a “flagship” centre with VTCT, is a Habia school member and has outstanding reviews from Ofsted.
Visit the Learning Curve Group Hair and Beauty Academy website.
Subcontracting Rationale - August 2023
The College works with a limited number of partner providers to deliver subcontracted provision for learners 19 and over. This includes learners 19+ Adults funded from the Adult Education Budget, and Higher Education programmes funded via learner loans.
As part of our curriculum planning strategy, we carry out research to support the rationale for programmes that we deliver directly and via subcontracted partners.
The aim of subcontracted provision through partners, is to allow the College to provide a range of learning which it would not provide under normal circumstances. Such partnership provision may broaden the geographic footprint of delivery, introduce specialist learning aims or involve diverse delivery modes.
We have strong collaborative working relationships with partners delivering subcontracted provision, and we expect subcontracted provision to deliver high quality learning experiences and to meet or exceed national achievement rates.
Subcontracted provision is expected to meet the needs of national government priority target groups and will also address the specific market and workforce needs identified by the D2N2 Local Enterprise Partnership. Subcontract partners have a curriculum which is designed to specifically address the skills requirements identified by employers. Through subcontracted provision the College also seeks to engage with all communities and will support objectives to engage hard to reach learners who do not follow typical routes into education.
The College intends to continue with its strategic intention with regards to subcontracted activity, keeping in mind the ESFAs expectation to reduce subcontracted provision nationally, and as such the college has continued to reduce our annual subcontracted amounts since 2017, with the intention that this will continue to reduce annually.
Our strategy remains primarily focussed on addressing training needs within the D2N2 area and the substantial majority of provision procured through subcontracting is now in this area. We have strong management arrangements in place to ensure provision is of high quality, is continually improving and developing. We will respond to the anticipated funding reforms for subcontracting as indicated in the ESFA document titled‘Reforms to subcontracting education for learners over 16’. Our strategic values and actions match the stated vision that all subcontracted activity is to be of good quality and well managed.
