Bilborough College

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Bilborough College is a 6th form college in Bilborough, Nottingham, United Kingdom.

The college has students from across the conurbation. A third of its students come from Nottingham, another third from the surrounding Nottinghamshire and a third from south east Derby. The population at Bilborough College is 45% male and 55% female. 15% of the college's students come from minority ethnic backgrounds - this percentage is higher than Nottingham itself. Most students use the college bus system with buses going to Derby and Radcliffe on Trent.

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[edit] History

The college has grown a lot since 1996 from 635 students to 1,600 full-time students. This has now be accomplished through a major redevelopment project involving a complete college rebuild at a cost of £20.8m. The new accommodation opened in September 2005, although it was not officially open until 21st July. The new building is divided into 3 blocks (A, B and C) and 4 floors (0-3). The new building has a lecture theatre, theatre, refectory, large art rooms, library and sound proof music rooms. Previously the students were in a building that had lasted since the 1950s however this has now been knocked down and is currently being re-landscaped. The development has already won a design award from the local Civic Society, and has more recently received the Lord Mayor`s Prize for Architectural Excellence.

[edit] Curriculum

The curriculum is based entirely on Curriculum 2000, on advanced subsidiary-level (AS-level) and general certificate of education advanced-level (GCE A-level) provision. However it also caters for evening-classes with a programme provided in partnership with Broxtowe College Nottingham.

[edit] Ofsted Report

In the most recent Ofsted report it gave the college 'Outstanding' in Mathematics and English and modern foreign languages. It received 'Good' in the remainder(Science, Business and information communications technology, Visual and performing arts, Humanities. The college also received one of OFSTED's awards for 'A Particularly Successful College Award'. This award recognised the excellent results for the college in 2004 and in 2005. The overall pass rate for 2005 was 98.4%, with an A-C pass rate of nearly 75% for 'A' level results.

[edit] Bus service

The college also has a bus service which takes people to college in the morning and home at 4:10 or 4:20 depending on the destination. The bus services go from Derby to Rushcliffe. Littles bus company provides the college bus service.

[edit] Enrichment

The college provides a lot of extra curricular activities, Enrichment. In the core set includes:

[edit] College day

The college day starts at 9am and finishes at 4pm. The lessons are divided up into 6 blocks. Those not filled with lessons will become frees where students are expected to do private study.

09:00 10:15 10:30 11:30 11:50 12:50 13:00 14:00 15:00 15:05 16:00
Monday S Break S Break P TG Lunch T Break T End of Day
Tuesday U Break U Break P TG Lunch R Break R
09:00 10:15 10:35 11:50 12:00 13:30 14:45 15:00
Wednesday Q Break Q TG Lunch P Break P
09:00 10:15 10:30 11:30 11:50 12:50 13:00 14:00 15:00 15:05
Thursday T Break T Break Q TG Lunch S Break S
Friday R Break R Break Q TG Lunch U Break U

TG = Tutor Group

[edit] Student Exec

The college has a student exec that organise college social events. Recent events have included a Halloween party and a Christmas Ball.

[edit] President

Each year the college elects a male and female president, the current presidents are Oliver Butler and Jasmine Picot-Chapman.

[edit] Principal

Unfortuanately current Principal Martin Slattery will be leaving in Spring 2007 to return to family in Suffolk and for future career prospects. He has served the college throughout the establishment of it's great reputation.

[edit] Points of Concern

[edit] Canteen

The catering services at Bilborough College are provided by the private catering company Scolarest. In response to objections regarding the cost of the food, the company recently cut the prices of several of their products. Initial explanations for high prices were blamed on theft from the canteen, which resulted in rising prices to compensate for the loss. However, the canteen's pricing remains a subject of controversy in the college.

[edit] Student Parking

A main point of controversy is students who park in the newly developed Wimpy Estate due to low amount of parking spaces and people thinking it unsafe to park in the Bilborough area itself. Due to this the Wimpy Estate will start clamping wheels for cars parked on the estate although it is unknown how this will effect the lane leading to College as this is generally considered part of the College by most students and is were most of the parking happens.

[edit] Website Blocking

Another point of controversy is the amount of sites that are blocked on the College Intranet. Websites such as YouTube and MySpace have been blocked for being deemed unsafe and rude. Many Students and Teachers have complained about websites getting automatically blocked for having a single rude word even if it is on an innocent site such as Imdb. As of a few days ago Google Mail had also been blocked due to a student using it to send violent messages to another person, this had angered people who use Google Mail to send work to college and save other files.However, after students voicing their argument for google mail it was free to access again.

[edit] Free Water

At Bilborough College there is currently no source of free water available to the students, as mentioned above all of the vending machines and retail outlets within the college are run by Scolarest which is taxed heavily by the college management, They therefore charge 5 pence for a small cup of water and 90 pence for a small bottle of water.

[edit] External links

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