We believe passionately in the power of education to enrich lives, raise aspirations and create prosperity for individuals, businesses and the communities we work in.
We aim to be known as an exceptional place to study, where we provide students with an inspiring curriculum that develops the skills, knowledge and behaviours they need to be successful in their lives and future careers.
We will help provide a skilled workforce that powers the regional economy and meets the current and future needs of employers.
We will be a valued and visible part of our community, making a positive contribution and working with a diverse range of community organisations to improve the lives of local residents.
To help us achieve our goals, we have created five organisational pillars, each a vital component of our pursuit of excellence and our future success.
Find out more about each of our pillars, and how we have demonstrated them, below:
Pillar One | Pillar Two | Pillar Three | Pillar Four | Pillar Five
We are focussed on designing and delivering a curriculum that gives our learners a fully rounded educational experience, as well as making them work-ready.
Our key developments will include:
- Working with partners and key stakeholders to co-design and deliver a rigorous, flexible curriculum that offers career progression routes from all our courses.
- Aligning our specialisms to our regional economy, investing in our priority sectors.
- Growing our apprenticeship offer, producing technically skilled adults and young people with the skills needed to progress into and through the job market.
- Delivering outstanding client experiences to all the businesses we work with to create long-term mutually productive relationships.
Pillar One: in action
We’re proud of our relentless focus on developing our students through inspiring teaching, learning, and support across all phases of their education.
Our key developments will include:
- Placing the interests, needs, and ambitions of all our students at the heart of everything we do.
- Applying evidence-based and innovative approaches to teaching, learning, and assessment that meets the needs of our varied young people, adult learner cohorts, and employer stakeholders.
- Ensuring our students have access to high-quality careers guidance and relevant industry experience through their chosen courses of study.
- Equipping our students with life skills through our approaches to personal development, employability skills, and citizenship.
Pillar Two: in action
Our focus is to empower individuals to lead, innovate, and deliver exceptional teaching, learner experiences, and outcomes.
This pillar is underpinned by the organisational People Strategy themes of Attraction and Retention, Engagement and Wellbeing.
Key developments will include:
- Working proactively with our staff to ensure the opinions and ideas of all staff are listened to and acted upon.
- Delivering year-round engagement and physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing activities that encourage a positive work environment to ensure an engaged, empowered, and healthy workforce that contributes to the organisation’s success.
- Ensuring we have a diverse and inclusive workforce that reflects and celebrates the communities we serve.
- Identifying, nurturing, and developing the emerging talent in our staff to create the leadership and managers of the future.
Retaining our financial stability is critical to ensuring we can deliver on our strategic plan, continue to improve the learner and employer experience, and be resilient to any challenges we may face in future.
Key developments will include:
- Growing learner numbers in priority areas whilst also, across all our courses, delivering a profitable operating model that enables reinvestment and the strategic use of our finances to ensure continued growth and development.
- Investing further in our facilities to ensure a high-quality, safe, accessible learning environment for all and industry-standard equipment for our learners so they are prepared for the sectors they are preparing for or work in.
- Continuing to improve the existing estate to lower the College’s operational impact on the environment and, where possible, sourcing external funding to implement planned improvements.
- Investing in our digital infrastructure to continue developing robust, scalable, and secure solutions for teaching and learning and operational efficiency.
Our focus is being a creative, engaged, and influential anchor institution that will foster productive partnerships and impactful civic commitment.
Key developments will include:
- Collaborating on innovative employer-led projects and a wide range of social responsibility activities, in order to continually enhance the student experience and the reputation of the College regionally and nationally.
- Celebrating and promoting our achievements and the positive impact we have on our students, businesses, and communities through wider engagement with external regional and national public relations activities.
- Contributing positively to social, cultural, and economic regeneration and prosperity of Hertfordshire and the surrounding regions.
- Increasing the reach we have with employers across the region, generating new key business opportunities as well as supporting and nurturing the relationships with our existing businesses.
Pillar Five: in action
Looking for more information?
Check out our five-year strategy
The Hart Learning Group’s strategic plan maps out the next phase of our journey as we seek to build on our achievements and push the Group towards being outstanding in all of our work.