Inclusive Colleges
Widening access to life changing learning
Opportunities in Glasgow are immense, but our region also faces social, educational and economic challenges that can be alleviated by a powerful college education. The Glasgow College Region is engaging with people furthest from the labour market; helping them to overcome barriers to learning and to succeed in college, life and work. By working in concert across the region, the colleges are already making important progress. We have:
•increased learning choices and offered more pathways to, and through, a college education.
•increased by the amount of learning that Glasgow’s colleges offer in community locations.
•increased our provision of part-time learning options.
•created common regional entry qualifications across subjects to improve support for learners.
Our inclusion strategy is succeeding. We are widening access and increasing the amount of college activity for residents from areas of multiple deprivation.
•In 2016-17, Glasgow’s college students numbered 70,000. Almost a third of our learning opportunities were targeted at people from poorer backgrounds. We increased the volume of activity provided to residents from areas of multiple deprivation by almost 5,000 Credits.
•Glasgow colleges successfully delivered additional learning opportunities to more than 1,000 young people who are not in education, employment or training.
•In 2017-18, approximately three quarters of our learners successfully completed their course of study.
We will continue to improve attainment levels for all our learners, regardless of their backgrounds. The Glasgow college region is helping to close the attainment gap.
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Glasgow's regional performance