The Hartpury College contribution to meeting local, regional, and national skills needs. Read more below or download our Accountability Statement in full.
"Our Annual Accountability agreement, established against a context of our Hartpury 2025 Strategy, aims to provide a concise overview of the Hartpury College provision. It details how our provision meets local, regional, and national needs for the industries and communities that we serve and sets out key objectives that we plan to achieve over the next year to further develop provision in support of evolving and future skills needs. As a result of our targeted UK-wide approach and specialist focus, ultimately we will continue to contribute positively to the local, regional and national economy."
Claire Whitworth, Deputy Principal, Further Education
"Our Annual Accountability agreement, established against a context of our Hartpury 2025 Strategy, aims to provide a concise overview of the Hartpury College provision. It details how our provision meets local, regional, and national needs for the industries and communities that we serve and sets out key objectives that we plan to achieve over the next year to further develop provision in support of evolving and future skills needs. As a result of our targeted UK-wide approach and specialist focus, ultimately we will continue to contribute positively to the local, regional and national economy."
Claire Whitworth, Deputy Principal, Further Education
Hartpury College's Annual Accountability Statement for 2023-24 is available to download in full here. Key excerpts and links to dedicated pages and content within the statement are available in the carousels below.
Hartpury will be a specialist niche provider delivering relevant, effective and high quality education and training for employment in sport, equine, animal and agricultural industries; locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
Build and sustain a vibrant, student-centred industry facing culture which supports:
"I think this Accountability Statement is an excellent and comprehensive piece of work. Your goals are ambitious and will no doubt be challenging for you and the team. I am delighted to see the numerous references to our Local Industrial Strategy, our Skills Strategy and the work of our Agri-food and Rural Business Group and I feel the whole document chimes really well with our own direction of travel for the skills agenda in the county"
Dev Chakraborty, Deputy Chief Executive, GFirst LEP
"I think this Accountability Statement is an excellent and comprehensive piece of work. Your goals are ambitious and will no doubt be challenging for you and the team. I am delighted to see the numerous references to our Local Industrial Strategy, our Skills Strategy and the work of our Agri-food and Rural Business Group and I feel the whole document chimes really well with our own direction of travel for the skills agenda in the county"
Dev Chakraborty, Deputy Chief Executive, GFirst LEP
Strategically, the curriculum areas provided by Hartpury College are niche and specialist, focusing on Land-based Diplomas, Sport Diplomas, and A-level programmes. The areas of specialism offered reflect local, regional, and national economic need.
Hartpury attracts 16-19 year-old full time students from a 30-mile radius locally from Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire and also regionally, nationally, and internationally due to the specialist, niche nature of our offer. We work with 218 local authorities across the UK.
Across our specialist industry subject areas of Agriculture, Animal, Equine, and Sport, the Hartpury offer is very much contributing to the key local, regional, and national needs.
"We have been greatly supported by Hartpury in engagement with the agri-food supply chain in the region and have worked collaboratively to ensure engagement is as broad and representative as possible, and we expect to continue our effective working relationship throughout the LSIP project cycle."
Matt Tudge, Head of Skills Planning, Business West
"We have been greatly supported by Hartpury in engagement with the agri-food supply chain in the region and have worked collaboratively to ensure engagement is as broad and representative as possible, and we expect to continue our effective working relationship throughout the LSIP project cycle."
Matt Tudge, Head of Skills Planning, Business West
Demand for Hartpury courses has increased year on year with student number growing by circa 500 over the last five years in line with our predicted targets and 2025 Strategy. This demonstrates that the requirements of young people are being met.
"Hartpury University and Hartpury College welcome the opportunity to work collaboratively on the development on the LSIP. Hartpury places great emphasis on employer liaison to ensure alignment of provision with current and emerging skills labour gaps. As such, this piece of work is more important than ever, given the evolving economy and associated challenges that lie ahead." Andy Collop, Vice-Chancellor, Principle & CEO, Hartpury University and Hartpury College
Hartpury College has a long standing, clearly defined and industry connected curriculum, focusing specifically on our specialist areas that meets local, regional, and national needs, skill gaps and emerging trends identified as government priorities within the industries that we serve.