Governance at
Hull College Group
Carla Ramsay
Corporation Advisor and Secretary to the
Board
Hull College Group – what does it consist?
• Hull, Harrogate and Goole sites
• 32,000 enrolments
• 14-16 Part-time
• 14-16 Full-time (national pilot)
• 16-18 & 19+ Apprenticeships
Adult
• 16-18 Full time
Full-cost
• Higher Education
International
Hull College Group – basic Governance
• Corporation of 20 Governors
• Strategic Leadership Team
• Mix of Committees and Working
Groups
• Recent changes in Governance
Hull College Group – specific features
• Academy Sponsor – Sirius Academy
• Significant improvement in GCSE results, new build, joint
6th Form, enrichment activities, appointment of Trustees
and Directors
• Higher Education
• Approximately 1,500 students
• Arts, Design, Business and Science
• Harrogate International Business School, Hull College of Art
• New HE Governance and Ethics structure
Hull College Group – specific features
• Energy League
• 79 full-time 14-16 year old learners enrolled from
September 2011 as part of planned secondary school
closure in Hull
• Studio School Applications, UTC
involvement
• Commercial
Hull College Group – how does governance
keep up?
• Governance focus
• Looking to future needs
• Focus on strategy
• Focus on risk and uncertainty
• New mind-set for governance
• Greater self-sufficiency?
Hull College Group – how does governance
keep up?
• Review of skills mix
• New governors and co-optees have added significant
business acumen and strategic skills
• New use of working groups
• HE Governor Working Group – change in HE governance
structure
• Governor Working Group – New Opportunities; detailed
work and risk analysis on behalf of Corporation
Hull College Group – how does governance
keep up?
• Hull College Group appointments to
sponsored academy
• Mix of Governors and staff to give right support to
Academy and understand College’s strategic direction –
Hull College Group retains majority
• New Corporation Advisor and Secretary
to the Board
Hull College Group – how does governance
keep up?
• New strands
• 14-16, commercial, new opportunities, HE
• All fit into Governance Committee Structure without need for
their own committee/governance structure
• Corporation focus on strategy and risk
• Targeted governance training
• Consultative Committees
Hull College Group – Staff and Student
Governors
• Two Student Governors – SU Sabbatical
President and Student Governor
• Standards Committee and HE Academic Board
• Two Staff Governors
• Standards Committee and Search, Governance
and Human Resources Committee
Governance and Committee Structuresist?
Corporation
Future
Development:
Ethics
Committee
Strategic Leadership Team
Audit
Committee
Finance
Committee
Search,
Governance
& HR
Harrogate
Consultative
Cttee
Remuneration
Committee
Goole
Consultative
Forum
New
Opportunities
Estates
Strategy
Strategy Development
Standards
(FE)
Academic
Board
HE
Academic
Board