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Quality Standards

Staff

Awarding Bodies

As an SQA Approved Centre, we can process course approvals and internal verification.

• Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA)
• Scottish Quality Management Systems
• Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM) (formerly NEBS) 
• OCR
• Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
• NEBOSH
• BTEC
• British Computer Society
• Chartered Management Institute
• City & Guilds 
• Royal Society for the Promotion of Health
• REHIS (Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland)
• Open University College Routes

Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education (HMIE)

HMIE Annual Engagement Report January 2011

The College was reviewed by HMIE at end of 2005 (report published 2006), with a follow up report carried out in 2007 (published 2008). These reports can be read at by clicking here.

Coatbridge College has also been involved in the following Subject Based Aspects Reports:

• Aspect report on the provision in Scotland's colleges for young people requiring more choices and more chances
• Equality and diversity in Scotland's colleges
• Life sciences in Scotland's colleges
• Computing in Scotland's colleges

Coatbridge College Nursery was also inspected October 2010 (report published December 2010), and this report can be accessed by clicking here.

Investors in People (IiP)

In 2005, the College was awarded Investor in People status. This highlighted the College’s commitment to the development of its staff: an essential part of the success of the College.

Since then, the College has achieved Investors in People Gold accreditation representing achievement of, in IIP’s words, “world class best practice and shows a truly cutting-edge organisation operating at the very highest levels of people management practices”.

Learndirect

Since March 2004, the College has been approved by Learndirect Scotland for the branding of the Horizon Centre.

Care Commission

The College Nursery is inspected annually by the Care Commission and has been approved to offer day care for children aged 2.5 - 5 years. The inspection report can be viewed at www.carecommission.com

Customer Service Excellence

In 2005, the College was awarded Charter Mark status – the government’s national standard for customer service at this time. The College went on to be reaccredited in line with the government’s enhanced customer service standard Customer Service Excellence in July 2008 and again in July 2011. The standard demonstrates success in putting the learner/customer at the heart of everything we do.

Open University College Routes

'Coatbridge College is working with The Open University in Scotland (OU) to create flexible opportunities for students who wish to progress on a part-time basis from their Higher National study to a degree.

The Open University's BA or BSc (Open) degree allows students to choose from a wide range of OU modules tailored to their personal and vocational needs. This allows students to either build on the subject areas studied in college or provides the flexibility to develop skills and knowledge in other subject areas.

Students with an HND can count up to 240 points of credit transfer towards the OU’s 360 point BA/BSc (Open) with Honours. Similarly, a student with an HNC can count between 95 and 120 points of credit transfer towards the 300 point BA/BSc (Open) or the 360 point BA/BSc (Open) with Honours. Honours degrees in named subjects are also available and further information on credit transfer is available on request.'

Progression to the OU's Open degree is available for all HNC and HND courses.

Visit The OU's College Routes website for more information

Other Degree Opportunities

The College also offers degree programmes as detailed below:

BA Business Studies

Coatbridge College, in Partnership with the University of West of Scotland (UWS), is currently in its fourth successful year of students completing their BA in Business Studies. We are one of the few Colleges that offers students the opportunity to study from NQ and HN level to Degree. Students who have completed an HND in Administration & Information Technology or HND Business (240 points) enter into the Programme in its third and final year. On completion students can progress into their Honours (4th Year) at UWS.

BA Childhood Practice

Coatbridge College is working in partnership with the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) to deliver the BA Childhood Practice.

The development of the BA Childhood Practice is designed to ensure that managers in early years’ settings are qualified to degree level. The Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), an organisation which works to ensure that education and training providers deliver qualifications that meet the needs of employers, state that managers in early years settings who are qualified to degree level will ensure the best experiences for children. All day care of children service managers who register with the SSSC after 2011 will be required to have a Childhood Practice Qualification.

As well as providing appropriately qualified Childcare practitioners the BA Childhood Practice allows early years managers to study for a degree at their local college. The collaborative partnership between Coatbridge College and UWS supports the widening participation of experienced professionals to achieve a qualification at degree level.