Delivering through Partnership & Collaboration
Delivering for the City Region
The College has a long standing and well-established commitment to enhancing employability within the Glasgow region, and
supporting the needs of our regional partner industries. With over 2600 industry partners across more than 230 industries, we
support the City Council's strategic ambitions to empower and to improve the life chances of all citizens; in a city with a thriving,
inclusive, economy where everyone can flourish and benefit from the city's success.
Through our stakeholder collaborations we have further developed our Student Academic Experience Strategy, providing real
world work experience for many of our learners in their chosen specialist professional and technological fields in an enhanced
learner journey - our "Purple Agenda". As we support economic recovery and growth, we continue our commitment to these
regional key themes identified by our stakeholders:
• Consistent, high quality student experience
• Developing students' confidence, well-being, and skills for work and life
• Flexible, linked pathways, widening access and challenging deprivation
• Adding value through regional collaboration
• Industry partnerships providing real work experience opportunities
• Curriculum aligned to skills needs and developing the young workforce
• Fair Work values and behaviours
Delivering for Scotland
We are living through a Global Education Revolution
and the City of Glasgow College is well positioned
to influence that revolution - to be a leading light in
shaping a more agile, collaborative and inclusive Tertiary
Education system in Scotland. The next generation
of students will have experienced the seamless and
inextricable integration of technology into their lives
on an unprecedented scale, and education into the
next decade will rely on key elements of increased and
improved digital provision and capabilities of staff and
students.
The digital transformation, which City of Glasgow
College is supporting through its "Blue Agenda", will
enhance this flexible and adaptable tertiary response to
the challenges and opportunities that Scotland faces,
and the delivery of our national priorities. Among our
many specialist curriculum areas in which we lead
nationally, City of Glasgow College is one of the first
STEM Assured education providers in the UK: our
industry-backed validation of our science, technology,
engineering and mathematics provision, demonstrating
our ability to keep pace with emerging technology and
the evolving needs of employers.
We support a "national mission" through driving
innovation as a 21st Century College, with greater
cohesion and collaboration across the tertiary system in
the provision of lifetime learning. In doing so, we firmly
believe that Scotland can be a globally recognised hub
of Technological and Vocational Education and Training,
with City of Glasgow College as a leading partner.
Delivering Internationally
Each year, the College welcomes students from
over 130 different countries to our vibrant student
population, enhancing the learning and working
environment for the whole College community. The
College is renowned across the globe for our work
in the Maritime and Food and Hospitality industries
and recognised for our award-winning activity in
Procurement and Creative Industries. We work with
over 100 international partners across 28 countries
worldwide.
Our City Learning strategy enables the College's
whole curriculum, and staff expertise, to work
effectively in collaboration with industry partners
across our four faculties. This underpins the further
development of our commercial and international
operations, which are a mainspring of our strategic
ambitions to serve the international learning
community over the period of this Plan, and which
are tangible examples of how City is exporting
Scotland to the world.
Related to these plans is the ambition to develop
a Maritime and STEM Centre supporting the Clyde
Mission to create good new, green jobs, with a
skilled workforce to secure those jobs; and to use
the river to create better places for people and
communities - part of our "Green Agenda" of
environmental responsibility. As Glasgow becomes
the focus for the world's response to the climate
emergency at UN Climate Change Conference,
COP26, the College will embed its own response in
all aspects of its functions and learning.