Petition to the CEO and Chair of governors: Celebrate difference: don’t standardise CCCG. Listen to staff

This will break up communities

This is awful - it will affect us in a negative way!

1 year ago Featured

In every other aspect of teaching (and indeed life these days!) we are supposed to embrace differences and move away from a "one size fits all" culture - why not with our colleges/sites too? Each college is well known locally, has it's own strengths, specialities and identity so why risk the reputations of the individual colleges by rebranding?

Save the college. City and Islington

Agree with the above.

Many of us feel lost in the new structure, we luck belonging!

1 year ago Featured

I am very concerned that this change will lead to a disconnect between the college and the communities we serve, and also that it will lead to further centralisation of provision which will reduce the accessibility of our courses to many of our learners.

I'm concerned for a few reasons: - the loss of jobs. It doesn't make sense that some may be facing redundancy, when we've got bigger as a college. How will this impact workload and quality of provision? - my own job, counselling students - the original City & Islington sites seems to be the only campuses with counsellors for students. I believe it's really important vital support for some of our vulnerable students, or those who experience issues during the time of their courses. If there is 'standardisation' across all sites, what does that mean for our jobs? Do they get erased? Or are you going to Level up across all sites? The latter makes sense to me, but is CCC going to invest in this for students because that means more cost? Should we be sacrificing quality of support for money? Many of the 16-19 age group are going through major transitions in their lives and need trusted spaces to talk about this to help them through. Especially with the raise in young people's mental health?. I work with a lot of students with undiagnosed mental health issues, who often don't tell anyone, but will share with me, once we've built a trusting relationship. Hence, why I often hear of safeguarding issues e.g. suicidal thoughts - we have to do sensitive and responsible work around this. But we also for those students who don't meet the safeguarding thresholds, but are extremely vulnerable too. E.g this year I was was supporting someone on anti-psychotic meds, who'd already tried to end their life a number of times- they were currently not suicidal, but they were still highly vulnerable given the nature of their mental health illness. - Why has the structure put the Welfare Advisers in with the Finance team???!!! They are an essential cog with Counselling / Wellbeing & Safeguarding. Yes they help with the student bursary for some of the year, but that is only part of what they do. A number of our Welfare advisers are Safeguarding Champions and have important roles in picking u

Identity, and feeling a sense of belonging and community, is at the heart of teaching and learning. With a view to inclusivity and equality, being recognised and valued as an individiual, with a heritage and a place, is at the heart to teaching students to feel motivated to achieve and contribute their skills and energies to society. This rebranding that erases the identity of City and Islington College, Holloway - and other sites and colleges - is already having an adverse impact on staff and students as it communicates a message that we have no identity. While it may fit a business model to attempt to 'appear' as one cohesive organisation, it loses sight of the people that the organisation has been created to educate, and the people who educate them. Where is this 'capital city'? It has no place; no meaning. Rebranding as Capital City College - with a full awareness that staff and students value belonging to Islington, Angel, Victoria, Kings Cross, etc. sends a message: we don't hear you; we don't value you. Echoing many teachers' and learners' experience that data -and not the human - drives the organisation. So even from the perspective of a business model, 'Capital City College' fails. Fails to communicate itself as an organisation that celebrates and values its people and place. Fails to brand the college as having any kind of vision. Fails to do anything new or create anything meaningful.

Won't work for ESOL

won't work for ESOL

Not rational for ESOL

The group seem to be trying to make a 'one size fits all' organisation. This doesn't support the strengths of different Campuses

This defies common sense- in every way. Please listen to the teachers!

If it's working well, don't fix it.

Please listen to staff

Each college is unique because of their location and community type, so they cannot be standardised.

I agree with so many of the comments made about the "New regime" and its unrealistic, dehumanising effect this restructuring has been on the staff and how this will affect our local communities

I agree.

Don’t standardise CCCG. Listen to staff