Bury College students and staff raise £6,800* for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, and spread the importance of Remembrance Day.
Bury College University Centre works in collaboration with the University of Cumbria, University of Huddersfield, The University of Salford and Pearson Education. These agreements allow us to deliver a wide range of courses that are constantly reviewed to reflect the needs of students and the job market.
Courses attract a range of students; from those who have just completed their advanced level courses to those looking to progress in their career. As a student on one of our courses you will benefit from a wide range of services and facilities at both Bury College University Centre and those at the university affiliated with your course. This is dependent on the programme of study and the awarding body/higher education institution agreement.
University of Cumbria
The University of Cumbria is fully committed to delivering exceptional and professional higher-level learning to meet the demands of an ever-evolving workforce and emerging markets. They do this by expanding opportunities, deepening connections to industries, while equipping all students with the ability to thrive wherever in the world they choose to live. With a proud history offering arts, business, law, policing, science, conservation, sport, health, social care, rehab and teacher training programmes to people nationwide, the institution ranked 1st in the UK for the quality of its education according to the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2020. It enriches people by providing a safe and supportive environment, as well as innovative academic opportunities, such as providing degree apprenticeships, CPD and foundation courses through further education partners, making the impossible possible for more students.
University of Huddersfield
The Education and Training Consortium (ETC) was formally constituted in 2001 as the (then) Consortium for Post-Compulsory Education and Training (CPCET), a pioneering collaborative partnership between FE and the University of Huddersfield focusing on teacher education awards for the ‘Lifelong Learning Sector’. The scale and complexity of the collaboration is unusual (some 21 partners mainly, but not exclusively, situated in the North of England). Geographically, ETC members are dispersed across the north of England from Hull to Liverpool, but there are member institutions as far afield as Northumberland, Norfolk and Essex. They include large urban general FE colleges as well as smaller FE institutions. The open nature of the relationships between partners is a key characteristic. In the field of Lifelong Learning teacher education the rationale for close partnership underpins curriculum design and development, research, and human resource planning. The colleges partners are the key sites of practice and offer a huge store of knowledge and expertise. The University of Huddersfield retains responsibility for academic standards and quality assurance; however, the Consortium arrangement was designed to maximise partner college involvement in managing the development and delivery of provision. The distribution of new knowledge and innovation in teaching and learning constitutes a considerable challenge within the context of large distributed learning networks, but the ETC demonstrates that effective collaboration between HE and FE can be of great benefit financially, strategically, academically, and culturally to both sides of the arrangement. Key beneficiaries are the students who, in this case, are both in-service and pre-service trainee teachers – beyond whom are the thousands of FE learners they teach.
University of Salford
The University of Salford pioneers exceptional industry partnerships, co-creating real-world focused learning and curriculums that provide an outstanding university experience and preparation for career success. Building on our origins supporting Britain’s Industrial Revolution, today we collaborate with industry and professional bodies to deliver courses enriched with digital fluency, experiential learning, and authentic assessment. Rising to the challenge of a changing world, across healthcare, business, the arts, science, engineering, the environment and technology, our apprenticeships, short courses, and degree courses, are informed by research and relevant to industry needs. Delivered by supportive programme teams, you can develop the knowledge and skills to become unstoppable.
