About the College

Newcastle College is a further and higher education college, offering hundreds of vocational courses, degrees and apprenticeships to learners across the North East.

Students here learn the skills that employers really need and benefit from first-class facilities, tutors with real experience and opportunities to learn directly from industry experts. Our award-winning student support team helps everyone get the best out of their time with us.

Over 80

Full-Time Courses On Offer

10

Buildings Offering Specialist Facilities

15,000

Students choose Newcastle College

Vision, Strategy and Intent

Our strategy is aligned to NCG’s Strategy to 2030. Its aim is to deliver the College vision to develop the skills and talents of our students to succeed in modern enterprise and make a positive contribution to the prosperity of our region. Our curriculum intent is to develop the skills that students need for their next steps in education, training or employment.

Jon Ridley

Principal

Lisa Hamilton-Murray

Deputy Principal

Alan Fenton

Deputy Principal

Catherine Orridge

Assistant Principal

James Edge

Assistant Principal

We are part of NCG

Newcastle College is part of the NCG group of colleges. NCG's mission is to ‘enable social mobility and economic prosperity through exceptional education’. NCG exists to create life-changing opportunities for people that strengthens the prosperity of their local communities.

Our partner colleges include Carlisle College, Kidderminster College, Lewisham College, Newcastle Sixth Form College, Southwark College and West Lancashire College.

NCG

Our Board and Governors

NCG is governed by a Corporation Board, which exists to ensure the effective running of the organisation at all levels. It consists of independent governors who each bring their own skills and experience, along with staff and student governors. The Corporation and its governors lead on core oversight including strategy, finance, risk and assurance.

In addition, each of our colleges has a local college board that acts as a committee of the Corporation Board. NCG operates a place-based model of governance which ensures that NCG local college boards are truly responsive to the communities they serve by providing them with the freedom to explore in greater depth, the curriculum, skills and employment issues which will have the most impact within their region.

Together We Changed

At Newcastle College our curriculum areas are dedicated to listening to learners and improving based on students’ feedback. That is why we introduced the Together We Changed initiative in January 2021.

With Together We Changed we asked our students for their feedback on their course, the College and staff. We used this feedback to make improvements within our curriculum areas that directly benefit learners.