Vice Principal (Business Development & Employer Engagement) Lesley Roberts DfE URN 130777 Tables Deputy Principal (Teaching & Learning) Chris Thomas | Chair of the Corporation Board Nevil Croston Phone +44 808 100 3626 Founded 1904 | |
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Established 1928 as a Technical College Type Further Education College Location Derby Road
Mansfield
Nottinghamshire
NG18 5BH
England Address Derby Rd, Mansfield NG18 5BH, UK Principal & Chief Executive Dame Asha Khemka, DBE, OBE Students about 19,000 full and part-time Similar New College Nottingham, North Nottinghamshire College, Chesterfield College, Portland College, Central College Nottingham Profiles | ||
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Vision West Nottinghamshire College is the trading name of West Nottinghamshire College, a further education college having two main campuses in Mansfield, with smaller sites at nearby Sutton in Ashfield and Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England.
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- Vision west nottinghamshire college sponsor video
- Open evenings at vision west nottinghamshire college
- College
- Names
- Campuses and sites
- Royal visit
- The Inspire and Achieve Foundation
- Dame Asha Khemka Principal
- References
The College of Further Education was formed in the 1970s by combining elements of an old Technical College dating back to 1928 and adjacent College of Arts dating from 1930 in Mansfield town centre with a newer, main Technical College established in 1960 at a large development on former farmland at Derby Road, on the outskirts of Mansfield. Both sites remain in use, and the college provides dedicated shuttle buses from the different sites.
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College
The college offers further education to about 19,000 students in full- and part-time education including courses for 14- to 16-year-olds in collaboration with local schools. The programmes include the majority of 'A' Level courses, access to higher education, and vocational apprenticeships which include bricklaying, plumbing, carpentry, gas fitting, painting and decorating, construction management, driving passenger vehicles, forklift truck driving and railway engineering. A variety of community and adult courses is also provided across the local area. The college has a Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) status for engineering, specialised construction, logistics and care. A 2008 Ofsted report accorded the school Grade 1 (outstanding) on all inspection points, but at the 2012 inspection the college ratings lowered from Outstanding to good overall with some satisfactory areas and some inadequate.
Names
After opening as a newly built Technical College in 1960, the Derby Road site became locally known as Derby Road Tech. West Nottinghamshire College of Further Education was founded in 1976 as the result of a merger of West Nottinghamshire Technical College and Mansfield College of Art (sometimes called College of Arts), previously Mansfield School of Arts.
A change in the law – the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 – allowed colleges to become Incorporated and run semi-autonomously, in this case becoming the Corporation of West Nottinghamshire College, with finances changing from local authority control to that of the Further Education Funding Council in April 1993.
The college renamed itself Vision West Notts in September 2011. Shortly after, however, the college adopted its current trading name of Vision West Nottinghamshire College.
The formal title is West Nottinghamshire College, as cited in the Ofsted report of June 2012, although it is often referred to as 'West Notts College' and other variations, particularly in its two main social media presences.
Campuses and sites
The main college campus is the Derby Road campus in the south of Mansfield; the Chesterfield Road campus is in Mansfield town centre. There are several smaller sites including a Logistics and Construction Academy in Kirkby-in-Ashfield for 600 students known as Station Park Campus, and around 100 further affiliated outreach venues in the Mansfield and Ashfield area and the largely urban corridor along the M1 motorway route between the counties of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
Royal visit
On 20 February 2009, the college's Construction and Skills Logistics Academy was visited by the Prince of Wales, who unveiled a commemorative plaque to mark his visit.
The Inspire and Achieve Foundation
In 2009, college principal Asha Khemka established the Inspire & Achieve Foundation, a registered charity to improve the prospects of young people from regeneration areas such as Mansfield.
Dame Asha Khemka, Principal
Principal Asha Khemka, an OBE since 2009, was awarded a DBE in the New Year Honours list 2014. She has been Principal and Chief Executive of West Nottinghamshire College since May 2006, succeeding Di McEvoy-Robinson.