Brilliant learning facilities and the best tools and equipment.
Excellent course – really enjoying the experience.
WE AIM TO HAVE SATISFIED STUDENTS A really welcoming and helpful place.
The courses, services and facilities are outstanding. Fantastic College. Staff are genuinely interested in everyone.
ANNUAL REPORT & STRATEGIC PLAN
We are South Lanarkshire College. Our Board of Management would like to share this review with you. We hope you enjoy reading it. We published our 2014-2020 Strategic Plan, “20/20 Vision” after thorough consultation with students, staff, employers and other stakeholders. This report provides information about how well we’re delivering our 3 Strategic Priorities.
All quotes throughout this review are taken from the feedback provided by our students – look for this icon.
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STRATEGIC PRIORITY SATISFIED STUDENTS
...Thanks for asking :-)
95% of our students reported satisfaction with their college experience. 36% reported being very satisfied.
98% of our students said they were being encouraged to develop good learning and study skills. A total of 1,500 students responded to our autumn 2016 survey.
East Kilbride is the sixth largest conurbation in . Scotland. During our growth we’ve maintained high student attainment rates with a large proportion of students going straight into employment at the end of their courses.
The lecturers are supportive. They make learning less of a challenge and more of an ambition to do well.
Figure 1 South Lanarkshire College growth Units of delivery
(000s) 48
46
44
42
40
38
36
34
32 2011-12
2012-13
2013-14
2014-15
2015-16
Our annual professional learning development activities ensure we’re as up to date as possible with current and future industry practices.
We’re the first College in the UK to achieve Investors in People at Platinum level.
Our positive culture and ethos help us deliver first class outcomes for students. I’m impressed with how staff do their jobs and the way they treat students.
315 Number of employed lecturing and support staff.
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STRATEGIC PRIORITY EFFECTIVE SKILLS TRAINING
92%
of our students have a positive destination at the end of their course.ยน
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Source. SFC college leaver destinations September 2016.
Examples of positive destinations: • getting a job • progressing from a Higher National Certificate to a Higher National Diploma • completing a Pre-Apprentice course and progressing to an Apprenticeship • being accepted onto a university degree programme • voluntary work 83% of those who didn’t undertake further study went straight into jobs at the end of their course.
I couldn’t be any happier...
Recently-released SFC data (Jan 2017) show our Higher Education (HE) full-time student attainment rates are the highest in Scotland.
Our full-time Further Education (FE) student attainment rates are well above the Scottish average. I’m enjoying this course and appreciate all the help and encouragement.
Figure 3 Attainment for full-time courses (%) 80 78
Highest in Scotland
76 74 72 70 68 66 64 62 (%)
SLC HE
Scottish average HE
SLC FE
Scottish average FE
80 78 76 74 72 70 68 66 64 62
76% Our attainment rates for students from the 20% most deprived areas are the highest in Scotland.
18% of our students come from the 10% or 20% most deprived postcodes.
Figure 4 Attainment by students from the most deprived postcode datazones
(%) 80 78 76 74 72 70 68 66 64 62
SLC 10%
Scottish 10%
SLC 20%
Most deprived postcode areas
Scottish 20%
An increasing proportion of our students progress directly to year 2 or 3 at university (articulation with advanced standing). The most popular route has been to the University of the West of Scotland. Students have also been successful in articulating with advanced standing to: Glasgow Caledonian University; University of Glasgow; University of Strathclyde; Edinburgh Napier University; University of Stirling; Robert Gordon University and Heriot-Watt University. ***HIGHLY RECOMMEND!***
Figure 5 Number of students progressing directly to year 2 or 3 at university upon completing their course
44 2011-12
50 2012-13
85 2013-14
108 2014-15
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STRATEGIC PRIORITY WE AIM TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE BEHAVIOURS
By taking positive measures during our period of considerable growth, we’ve reduced our carbon footprint by 36%.2 Mitigating actions include: solar photovoltaic and thermal panels; ground and air source heat pumps to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels; LED lighting and rainwater harvesting. Our two newest buildings are sectorleading, well-insulated low energy, low carbon structures. 2
Using the Scottish Government Reporting Template.
Figure 6 Reduction of carbon emissions
1,973 tCO2e 2011-12
1,255 tCO2e 2015-16
...the College is excellent.
We received our second prestigious UK Green Gown award in November 2016 for our pioneering, new net-zero carbon building, part funded by the European Regional Development Fund. It’s also the first building in the UK to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ BREEAM 2014 certificate.
We sent 804,825 emails in 2016! Each 50 kilobyte email message used around 8 billion electrons.3 Our total weight of email traffic (estimated) came to less than one billionth of an ounce. If we’d sent letters instead, they would’ve: • weighed over 8 tonnes • cost £498,991.50 in postage stamps • required 160 gallons of fluid to seal the envelopes!
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1,000,000,000,000,000,000 emails weigh around one ounce.
In 2015-16 the College operated a balanced budget.4 12 month period end 31 July 2016 (£000s)
16 month period end 31 July 2015 (£000s)
Income
13,724
17,541
Expenses
13,718
17,578
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(37)
Surplus (Deficit) Before donations and actuarial adjustments.
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or full details please see the College’s F audited annual accounts.
Balance sheet
As at 31 July 2016
As at 31 July 2015
Tangible fixed assets
33,805
32,996
Net current liabilities
(2,006)
(1,913)
Creditors, provisions and pension liability
(27,143)
(26,645)
Net assets
4,656
4,438
Represented by: Revaluation reserve
5,089
5,091
Inc. & Exp. A/C
(433)
(653)
Total reserves
4,656
4,438
Our funded price per credit of £220.26 was significantly below the Scottish average of £231.63 and the Regional average price of £224.55. We provide excellent value for money as a public body through our very high student attainment rates, high proportion of students going directly into jobs at the end of their courses and low unit costs. Our lean, efficient approaches, prudent budgeting and sectorleading IT systems helped us balance our books.
Figure 6 Funding per credit 2015-16
(ÂŁ) 234 232 230 228 226 224 222 220 218 216
Scottish average credit price
Regional credit price
SLC credit price
Last year we supported many charities as part of our corporate social responsibility.
Owner occupied. The employment of staff, ownership of estates and assets, high performance and sound governance is the responsibility of South Lanarkshire College’s Board of Management.
The facilities are maintained well.
Finding us South Lanarkshire College College Way East Kilbride G75 0NE 01355 807780 www.slc.ac.uk