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Employer/Apprenticeship Charter

Posted in College Policies

Harlow College is proud to deliver excellent teaching and learning to young people and adult learners.
We aim to ensure this excellence is also reflected in our relationship with employers. The aim of this Charter is to outline our commitment to you and clearly outline the standard and level of service you can expect from us and what we expect from you as an employer and employee.

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Freedom of Information

Posted in College Policies

A Guide to the Publication Scheme, May 2012

Harlow College has adopted the Model Publication Scheme developed for the Further Education sector and approved by the Information Commissioner in October 2008.

This guide has been produced as a requirement of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and provides a description of the “clauses” or type of information we make available.

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How We Use Your Personal Information

Posted in College Policies

This privacy notice is issued by the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Department of Education (DfE). It is to inform learners how their personal information will be used by the DfE, the ESFA (an executive agency of the DfE) and any successor bodies to these organisations. For the purposes of relevant data protection legislation, the DfE is the data controller for personal data processed by the ESFA. Your personal information is used by the DfE to exercise its functions and to meet its statutory responsibilities, including under the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 and to create and maintain a unique learner number (ULN) and a personal learning record (PLR). Your information will be securely destroyed after it is no longer required for these purposes. Your information may be used for education, training, employment and well‐being related purposes, including for research. The DfE and the English European Social Fund (ESF) Managing Authority (or agents acting on their behalf) may contact you in order for them to carry out research and evaluation to inform the effectiveness of training. Your information may also be shared with other third parties for the above purposes, but only where the law allows it and the sharing is in compliance with data protection legislation.

Website Accessibility Statement

Posted in College Policies

Harlow College is an inclusive community and we are committed to making our website as accessible as possible.

This website is built using the Joomla Content Management System. Joomla provides excellent accessibility, conforms to Web Standards and meets the requirements of W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. The pages on this site feature CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). Some browsers do not support all features in CSS so you might experience irregularities in the design. If you are experiencing problems we recommend updating your browser to the latest version.

If you have any difficulty accessing our information please email us. We'll fix the problem as soon as we can.

If you need information in an alternative format we will do our best to supply it a suitable format.

Transparency Return

Posted in HE Student Policies

  1. Introduction and Purpose:

1.1 In accordance with the Office for Students regulation F1 – Transparency information, all HE providers are expected to produce transparency data on the following that is published on their website to demonstrate commitment to their Access and Participation Statement and widening participation:

1.2 In each case, the information must include those numbers by reference to the following:

  1. the gender of the individuals to which they relate;
  2. their ethnicity; and

iii. their socioeconomic background, measured using the English Index of Multiple Deprivation 2015 (IMD)

  1. Scope:

2.1  Information for all prospective candidates, interested parties, partners, stakeholders, employers and Office for Students (OfS).

  1. Definitions:

3.1  OfS – Office for Students

3.2  IMD - English Index of Multiple Deprivation 2015

  1. Management responsibilities

4.1  to ensure the transparency data is annual updated and published on our website

4.2  to ensure the updated information is return to OfS at their request annually

4.3  for the data to inform the Colleges’ Access and Participation Statement and widening participation activities

  1. Data Tables – View Data