We are a further education corporation which governs North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College. We also sponsor the Midlands Academy Trust, a group of academies in our local area.
The Corporation was established by the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 and is an exempt charity.
The College is an independent legal entity, and our principal regulator is the Department for Education.
A corporation is a legal term describing a number of people working together as if they were one person. A corporation carries on working, as a succession of new people replaces those who retire or resign. The people making up the corporation are not governors, (as in a school), but are properly referred to as ‘Members’.
The Corporation is supported in its work by a number of committees and on occasion, task & finish groups. We have established the following committees and task & finish groups for 2018/19:
• Audit
• Students, Learning and Quality
• Resource
• People, Strategy and Governance
As a further education corporation, we are concerned with governing our College.
The documents which set out the membership of our Corporation and what we need to do to govern the College are the:
The Instrument and Articles of Government set out our six main responsibilities. These are to:
We work in partnership with our Principal, Marion Plant and her Executive Team to carry out these responsibilities.
The Corporation is advised by a Clerk who is independent of the College’s Executive and Management Teams and who has access to independent, professional advice.
