Committed to Community learning
KCC embraces a wide variety of community learning, action and regeneration serving West and parts of South London. Our learners benefit from employability, personal development and course sampling programmes delivered from neighbourhood sites in the community. We are proud to be the partner of choice of a range of voluntary and community organisations ranging from smaller specialist operations like Deep recording studios through Harrow Mission and Parent Pupil Partnership (PPP) to large and national charities like Leonard Cheshire Disability.
Employability
KCC runs regular CV Workshops, Job Clubs and employability training for local residents who are unemployed or have recently been made redundant to assist people to develop their 'Skills for Jobs' in a changing labour market. In the last year we have placed 30 people into employment with a range of employers from Oxford University to McVities. We also offer specialist employment support to local people with disabilities.
Skills for Jobs is delivered in partnership with City of Islington College and Worksmart by Leonard Cheshire Disability.
For further information or to register for help in finding work then contact Philip Shortt
Adult & Community Learning
The college runs a wide range of courses in partnership with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. These give people the opportunity to return to learning and have a taste of different courses before embarking on a more substantial course which leads to a qualification or employment. These are especially suitable if you want to change career direction or are coming back to education after caring for your family. We also offer cultural and practical courses in subjects such as history, arts and languages.
The college has strong links with a number of voluntary organisations. We actively encourage learners to progress to qualification courses and are able to arrange taster sessions in community settings and visits to the college in order to give people the opportunity to meet our staff and discuss our services. We particularly welcome approaches from supplementary schools, community projects and organisations working with people with learning difficulties or disabilities.
Community regeneration
We use a range of informal creative methods to engage the most hard to reach socially excluded young people to our programmes. We currently delivery three LSC ESF funded projects at our Maxilla Walk centre.
- Artwork – programme for young people develop skills and qualifications that will help them gain employment in the creative media industry and/or related fields.
- EETEngage - Aimed to inspire, entice and re-engage young people with education and progress onto training and employment
- REBUILD - an informal, modular education and taster programme
These run alongside our e2e – Entry to Employment programme.
All these programmes are aimed at 16-18 year-olds with a fractured history of formal learning in the education system with the objective being to re-engage them in the educational system.
We run fun tasters from one hour to one day in a range of areas; including
- Build a Football Team
- Build a Go Kart
- Build a House
- Build a Motorbike
Our programmes are designed to help young people develop basic vocational skills whilst working towards improving their self esteem, soft skills, timekeeping and attendance via a range of community projects such as sport activities, arts, media, hands on practical activities linked to informal and formal learning. We also view the projects as a key tool in creating social cohesion and building strong local communities for the future by providing young people with positive opportunities and life chances.
The projects aim to ensure that creative informal opportunities in a community setting can be used to engage the most disadvantaged groups back into education, training and employment. In the last year we have supported 30 young offenders back into mainstream education and training.
All programmes are based around extended youth work and are embedded with accredited training in personal social development, ICT, Skills for Life – literacy and numeracy and the relevant vocational skills (Motorcycle maintenance, FA Coaching Award, First Aid, UK Youth Challenge Award, Construction Skills Level 1). The objective of all our NEET engagement programmes is to progress the learner into formal education within the mainstream college.
All young people on the programme are supported by a team of Mentors offering ongoing holistic support.
For further information on EETEngage, Artwork, e2e or our young offenders project REBUILD please contact Jozell Vernall
Schools Programme
We run a range of vocational courses for 14-16 year olds, which are delivered by industry based experienced staff in well equipped facilities.
These include the New Diplomas which are run in partnership with local schools and stand alone courses such as BTEC First Diplomas and Certificates. The courses are designed to provide a more practical, real-world approach to learning alongside theoretical study. They prepare students for employment whilst also allowing them to progress to university. The students attending these courses spend one day in College and follow a school based curriculum for the rest of the week.
We also run vocational courses for 14-16 year olds who are not in school or who are in school but are under-achieving. These courses are designed to re-motivate and re-engage students by offering practical vocational qualifications, combined with functional skills, personal and social education, and intensive pastoral support. Students following these courses are able to progress onto courses in the College or at other further education colleges or into apprenticeships.
Schools and other education providers interested in these courses should contact Marie-Ange King m.king@kcc.ac.uk or Denise O'Dell-Athill d.odell-athill@kcc.ac.uk
Family Learning
The college does not run its own family learning programmes but is in partnership with the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Adult and Family Learning Service. Our Information, advice and guidance staff are happy to refer people to family learning provision in local schools and community venues. We are also able to supply lecturers, or put on taster sessions at the request of the Family Learning Service.
If you are interested in a career working with children or parents, we run a range of courses from nursery assistant to teaching and social work.
We also run a range of courses and programmes to help you get started with the basics or retrain for a new career.
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