26-547: Leeds City College is the largest further education establishment in the City of Leeds , West Yorkshire , England with around 26,000 students, 2,300 staff, with an annual turnover of £78 million. It officially opened on 1 April 2009. The College was granted official status in January 2009 and was formed from three large colleges, Park Lane College , Leeds Thomas Danby College and Leeds College of Technology . On 1 August 2011
52-401: A framework for an insolvency regime for further education colleges known as "Education Administration". This is a form of corporate administration adapted to the needs of further education, to be used "where a further education body is unable to pay its debts or is likely to become unable to pay its debts" and intended "to avoid or minimise disruption to the studies of the existing students of
78-638: A large service provider for apprenticeships where most of the training takes place at the apprentices' workplace, supplemented with day release into college. FE in the United Kingdom is usually a means to attain an intermediate, advanced or follow-up qualification necessary to progress into HE, or to begin a specific career path outside of university education. Further Education is offered to students aged over 16 at colleges of Further Education, through work-based learning, or adult and community learning institutions. Provision for further education colleges
104-595: A new site opened at Quarry Hill Campus . This new site was estimated to cost £60 million and is home to the School of Creative Arts, the School of Social Science, higher education provision in the creative arts and some space allocated to Leeds College of Music . Quarry Hill Annexe is located close by in Bridge Street and additional provision is available nearby in Eastgate. The sculpture Ribbons by Pippa Hale
130-563: A regional slant on the day's news, and traditionally provides close reporting on Leeds United and Leeds Rhinos as well as the Yorkshire County Cricket Club team. Despite its title that implies the paper is Yorkshire wide it is a Leeds-based paper, still widely circulated in Bradford , Harrogate , Huddersfield , and Wakefield as well. The City of Leeds has two further widely circulated local papers, being
156-538: A vocational route after the end of compulsory education at age 16. They offer a wide range of vocational qualifications to young people and older adults, including vocational, competency-based qualifications (previously known as SVQs ), Higher National Certificates and Higher National Diplomas . Frequently, the first two years of higher education – usually in the form of an HND – are taken in an FE college, followed by attendance at university. Further education in Wales
182-616: Is located here, as the college was a partner in the project. The Vine is a college site providing education for students with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities ( PMLD ). It opened in September 2023 in Burmantofts , replacing an earlier facility in Headingley . It includes a hydrotherapy pool and it caters for learners with PMLD and learners aged up to 25 with an Education and Health Care Plan . The decision to merge
208-416: Is provided through seven multi-campus colleges. Northern Ireland's Department for Employment and Learning has the responsibility for providing FE in the province. Most secondary schools also provide a sixth form scheme whereby a student can choose to attend for two additional years to complete their AS and A-levels. Scotland's further education colleges provide education for those young people who follow
234-910: Is provided through: Further education in Wales comes under the remit of the Welsh Assembly Government . Funding came from Education and Learning Wales from 2000 until 2006, when that organisation was merged with the Assembly. Further education in the Republic of Ireland is similar to that offered in the UK. Typical areas include apprenticeships and other vocational qualifications in many disciplines, such as childcare, farming, retail, and tourism. The many types of further education awards are known as Post Leaving Certificates . Further education has expanded immensely in recent years, helped by
260-980: The Wetherby News and the Wharfedale and Airedale Observer . For many years, the Evening Post produced a separate edition for South Yorkshire printed simultaneously in Doncaster . In 1970, that was converted into the now closed Doncaster Evening Post . Starting in 1926, the Yorkshire Evening Post sponsored motorcycle trial events on Post Hill , an area near Farnley specifically acquired for this purpose. In February 2012, Johnston Press announced that printing of The Yorkshire Post and Yorkshire Evening Post in Leeds would be switched to their plant at Dinnington near Sheffield and
286-669: The Further and Higher Education Act 1992 , which removed further education colleges from local government control. Types of college include: Policies relating to colleges are primarily the responsibility of the Department for Education (DfE). Until July 2016, colleges were also covered by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS); on the abolition of BIS and formation of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), responsibility for FE colleges moved to DfE. The regulatory body for sixth form colleges
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#1732776644622312-723: The United Kingdom and Ireland is additional education to that received at secondary school that is distinct from the higher education (HE) offered in universities and other academic institutions. It may be at any level in compulsory secondary education, from entry to higher level qualifications such as awards, certificates, diplomas and other vocational, competency-based qualifications (including those previously known as NVQ/SVQs ) through awarding organisations including City and Guilds , Edexcel ( BTEC ) and OCR . FE colleges may also offer HE qualifications such as HNC , HND , foundation degree or PGCE . The colleges are also
338-535: The Wellington Street printing facility closed. In September 2013, it was announced the Wellington Street premises would be demolished as journalists had already moved out. Preliminary demolition began in March 2014; In April 2014, it was announced the tower would be spared. In his 2015 memoir, former reporter Revel Barker recalled the 1960s: "During the cricket season...the Evening Post would be on
364-707: The awareness of the new college. New students were enrolled to the new Leeds City College from September 2009. It was assumed that the primary funding body for Further Education in England, the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), had ring-fenced a capital grant to help fund the merger. Although no actual figure was published, an article in the Yorkshire Evening Post in December 2006 spoke of up to £200 million being made available. However, news hit
390-559: The city is that duplication of courses is eliminated and the provision of centralised services to learners. According to the Leeds College Merger website, the Secretary of State gave official approval of the merger in January 2009 with the three colleges being dissolved on 31 March 2009. From 1 April 2009, Leeds City College would come into force with a new identity and from then on, publicity campaigns would run to extend
416-563: The city". Its registered office is in Park Lane, LS3 1AA, at the former Park Lane College site. The existing five sites of the three forming colleges continued in use, and were named as follows: In September 2011 a new site was opened after a college merger: In September 2013 a new site was opened: The college also initially operated from 12 other centres in Leeds; of these only Deacon House ( Seacroft ), Enfield Centre and Joseph Priestley Campus, Beeston remain in use. In September 2019
442-756: The college expanded further with the merger of the three sites of Joseph Priestley College in Rothwell , Beeston and Morley . On the same day it also became the owner of a newly re-constituted Leeds College of Music (now Leeds Conservatoire ), which operates with a level of independence as a wholly owned company of the Leeds City College Group. The College offers a wide range of qualifications including A Levels, BTECs and other vocational qualifications. It offers industry standard qualifications in sectors such as Health and Social Care, Food and Catering and Hair and Beauty, amongst others. In early 2019
468-550: The further education body as a whole". Education administrators were appointed to run Hadlow College and West Kent College in 2019. All colleges and FE providers are subject to inspection by Ofsted , which monitors the quality of provision in publicly funded institutions in England. Membership organisations for providers include the Association of Colleges and the Sixth Form Colleges' Association . In 2020,
494-736: The government allocated £200 million for repairs and upgrades of FE college buildings, subject to a degree of matched funding by the colleges, and the Department for Education is allocating this to colleges via the Further Education Capital Transformation Fund (FECTF). Sixteen colleges with sites in poor condition have been selected, and detailed proposals were invited for submission before October 2021, for projects which can be completed by December 2024. Further education in Northern Ireland
520-509: The headlines in spring 2009 of a serious and unexpected financial deficit within the LSC's national Building Colleges for the Future program, from where the grant would normally have been allocated. This has cast doubts on how just how much money (if any) will be made available for this merger, and when it would be released. Further education Further education (often abbreviated FE ) in
546-579: The institutions and their relationships with their communities. Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI), which was established in November 2012, is the regulator for FE qualifications. Comprehensive Employment and Training Act Yorkshire Evening Post The Yorkshire Evening Post is a daily evening publication (delivered to newsagents every morning) published by Yorkshire Post Newspapers in Leeds , West Yorkshire , England. The paper provides
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#1732776644622572-524: The overarching body, Leeds City College Group, was renamed to Luminate Education Group to better reflect its increasing portfolio of institutions with Leeds City College becoming one of the members along with Leeds College of Music, Keighley College and the White Rose Academies. As of 2021 the college describes itself as operating from three principal sites: Printworks, Park Lane and Quarry Hill "with smaller provisions in communities across
598-638: The streets at 10.30 a.m. The 'First' would be out about noon, the 'Final' at 2 p.m., the 'One-star final' around 3.30 and the 'Late Night Final' about 4.30. the Post was selling around 250,000 copies a night... nowadays there is only one edition, written and produced the night before and printed in Sheffield, 36 miles away" (In 1963) "our main competition the Yorkshire Evening News succumbed to economic pressures and folded to merge with
624-428: The three colleges was agreed by the three institutions involved with the joint aim being: "...to raise achievement levels in Leeds and Keighley, offer more courses to suit the needs of everyone from school leavers to employers, and enhance our facilities to be amongst the best in the country." With the three colleges offering many similar courses, one of the major advantages of having a unified education institution in
650-914: Was already DfE prior to the 2016 changes. Following the merger of the Education Funding Agency and the Skills Funding Agency in 2017, funding for colleges is provided through the Education and Skills Funding Agency for all further education students.In 2018/19, colleges' income totalled £6.5 billion, of which £5.1 billion (78%) was public funding. Most college funding follows the learner. Colleges must attract students, competing with each other and with other types of education and training provider. Colleges can borrow commercially, own assets, employ staff and enter into contracts, and they may make financial surpluses or deficits. The Technical and Further Education Act 2017 laid out
676-560: Was laid out in sections 41 to 47 of the Education Act 1944 ; their role was to offer "full-time and part-time education" and "leisure-time occupation" for persons over compulsory school age. In the 1960s, A-level students predominantly studied at school rather than colleges (often referred to as "techs" at that time). More types of colleges were introduced over the next decades, and by 1990 colleges took in almost half of A-level students. Colleges in England are corporate bodies under
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