The Hartpury 2026-2027 Accountability Statement draws
on numerous sources and stakeholder engagements
and has been developed, considering the following:
- Hartpury 2030 Stakeholder Engagement
- Hartpury Skills Review 2023-2024
- Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) Phases 1 and 2
- Ofsted Inspection Report, 2024
- Gloucestershire Economic Strategy 2024-2034
- Hartpury College Industry-Curriculum Co-creation Events
- The Gloucestershire Agri, Food and Rural Business Group
- LMI from the Hartpury Business Development Team
- Review of the Gloucestershire colleges offer
- The Gloucestershire's Skills Strategy 2022-2027
- National Skills Priority Sectors
- Unit for Future Skills
- Landex data sources
- Gloucestershire's Local Growth Plan 2025-2035
"Hartpury is a highly valued and longstanding partner of Business West, both through our wider Chamber of Commerce relationship and through our work together on the Gloucestershire Local Skills Improvement Plan. Their specialist role in land-based, agri-tech, animal, equine and sport provision is a real asset to the county, supported by strong employer relationships and a clear commitment to high-quality, industry-led education.
"Our collaboration with Hartpury throughout the LSIP has been excellent. Their insight, feedback and constructive challenge have helped us make significant amendments and improvements to the Gloucestershire LSIP, ensuring it better reflects the needs of specialist sectors, rural employers and future skills priorities. Hartpury has been instrumental in strengthening the discussion around emerging skills needs and connecting LSIP activity with real employer demand. We greatly value our open and collaborative relationship with Hartpury and look forward to continuing to work together through the Chamber, the LSIP and wider skills activity to support learners, employers and economic growth across Gloucestershire."
Matt Tudge, Head of Skills Business West
"We remain committed to ensuring our curriculum remains aligned with local, regional, and national skills priorities. By placing employers at the heart of our curriculum design, we enable their valuable expertise and insights to directly shape our provision. This collaborative approach ensures we can respond effectively to current, emerging, and future technical and core skills demands across the sectors we serve. As a result, our students are well-prepared to make a meaningful contribution to industry, while we play an active role in supporting the economic growth of Gloucestershire and beyond."
Claire Whitworth, College Principal
"We remain committed to ensuring our curriculum remains aligned with local, regional, and national skills priorities. By placing employers at the heart of our curriculum design, we enable their valuable expertise and insights to directly shape our provision. This collaborative approach ensures we can respond effectively to current, emerging, and future technical and core skills demands across the sectors we serve. As a result, our students are well-prepared to make a meaningful contribution to industry, while we play an active role in supporting the economic growth of Gloucestershire and beyond."
Claire Whitworth, College Principal
Outcomes reflecting Hartpury's national, regional and local priorities 2026-2027
With reference to our overall Hartpury 2030 Strategy, we have established a mission to:
- deliver high-quality, industry-connected, and inspiring student experiences that fosters outstanding learning and skills development
- foster outstanding learning and skills development, empowering
students to achieve their potential and progress into their chosen careers, enabling them to lead, innovate, and drive change within the industries that we serve, positively contributing to the economy - foster and strengthen collaborative partnerships with students, staff, parents/carers, employers, other industry professionals
and representative bodies, educational providers, and other key stakeholders. - further develop our provision to accommodate a full-time student population of over 2,100, a growing part-time apprenticeship population and further potential growth through partnership opportunities and commercialisation.
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