West Nottinghamshire College
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| Established | 1928 as a Technical College |
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| Type | Further Education College |
| Principal & Chief Executive | Dame Asha Khemka, DBE, OBE |
| Deputy Principal (Teaching & Learning) | Chris Thomas |
| Vice Principal (Business Development & Employer Engagement) | Lesley Roberts |
| Chair of the Corporation Board | Nevil Croston |
| Location |
Derby Road Mansfield Nottinghamshire NG18 5BH England |
| Local authority | Nottinghamshire |
| DfE URN | 130777 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Students | about 19,000 full and part-time |
| Gender | Mixed |
| Ages | 14–65 |
| Website | Vision West Nottinghamshire College |
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.
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.
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.
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.
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