newcastle and stafford colleges group (nscg)

Newcastle-under-Lyme College is a highly successful college in North Staffordshire, with pass rates and student success levels amongst the best in the country. NULC provides a wide range of academic and vocational qualifications from entry to degree level. Full-time recruitment in exceeds targets, resulting in circa 3600 full time students. In addition we have 1500 adult learners, over 400 students on higher education programmes and 1000 apprentices. The College received a highly complementary Ofsted Report following an inspection in 2013. The Ofsted report rates Newcastle-under-Lyme College as good, with inspectors finding many outstanding areas. It places the College in the top five of colleges inspected by Ofsted in 2013 and marks NULC as the only college in Staffordshire/Stoke to have any outstanding provision. The inspection found three quarters of the classroom areas inspected merited an outstanding grade. These were Health and Social Care, Sport, Leisure and Recreation and Independent Living and Leisure. All four work-based learning areas inspected were judged as good. These were Engineering, Motor Vehicle, Business Administration and Accounting and Finance. The College was also ranked as outstanding in outcomes for adult learners and consistently good in the three main areas that Ofsted review which are Outcomes for Learners, Quality of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and the Effectiveness of Leadership and Management. To find out more about Newcastle-under-Lyme College visit www.nulc.ac.uk or call us on 01782 254254 or email info@nulc.ac.uk.