A new academic year and more full-time students than ever before – over 380 new full-time students will be joining us next week. And it looks like we have a high number of apprentices starting as well.
As well as increasing demand from apprentices and full-time students, there are other demands on the College: the Policy Council has completed its training needs analysis and is commisioning both customer care and management training for hundreds of its staff; the Skills Strategy has identified several ‘work streams’ most of which will have an impact on the College, and the GTA and the College are working more closely together, again resulting in more work for the College.
This is, of course, all good news for the College. However, there are serious concerns about funding and staffing these courses and we are going to need to be very creative in our approach to timetabling and income generation over the coming months!
