Rotherham College of Arts and Technology (RCAT) and Dearne Valley College (DVC) are to collaborate in a bid to improve their services and their business efficiency.
The governing bodies of the two colleges have decided to collaborate on areas including joint curriculum development and joint employer engagement activity, together with co-operation over staff recruitment.
The institutions moved quickly to state that the move is not a merger.
In a joint statement, Gill Alton, principal at RCAT and Ioan Morgan, interim principal at DVC, said:"Rotherham College of Arts and Technology and Dearne Valley College are successful colleges giving good service to their communities whilst operating in challenging times, but this throws up opportunities.
"To ensure a sustainable future innovative measures have to be taken. To maximise our opportunities going forward the Governing Bodies of DVC and RCAT have decided to collaborate in significant ways.
"To be clear, this is not a merger, but it is about close working, growth, excellence and putting the student first. We hope this initiative will lead to great things and prevent some of the more extreme business reduction processes having to be implemented that we see happening elsewhere."
RCAT website
DVC website
The governing bodies of the two colleges have decided to collaborate on areas including joint curriculum development and joint employer engagement activity, together with co-operation over staff recruitment.
The institutions moved quickly to state that the move is not a merger.
In a joint statement, Gill Alton, principal at RCAT and Ioan Morgan, interim principal at DVC, said:"Rotherham College of Arts and Technology and Dearne Valley College are successful colleges giving good service to their communities whilst operating in challenging times, but this throws up opportunities.
"To ensure a sustainable future innovative measures have to be taken. To maximise our opportunities going forward the Governing Bodies of DVC and RCAT have decided to collaborate in significant ways.
"To be clear, this is not a merger, but it is about close working, growth, excellence and putting the student first. We hope this initiative will lead to great things and prevent some of the more extreme business reduction processes having to be implemented that we see happening elsewhere."
RCAT website
DVC website
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