benefits
The new campus is fundamental to the new College delivering its educational vision and the benefits this will bring for learners. With the current estate being unfit for purpose, it already significantly limits the College’s ability to attract, retain and prepare learners for employment or higher education. The new estate will:
- Support the realisation of the educational benefits of the merger
- Reduce running costs and permit more investment in education
- Provide the quality of facilities needed to meet the expectations of business and industry
- Respond to changes in learning styles by providing flexible, adjustable spaces
- Reduce the College’s carbon footprint and support local and national sustainability objectives
- Improve inclusiveness and accessibility by providing open and welcoming facilities
- Enhance the College’s ability to attract and retain key talent
- Enhance local communities by creating a mix of facilities that may be available to local residents and providing safer, more attractive public spaces
- Create significant economic benefits through the capital investment made.
What’s the Alternative?
Without a new campus, significant funds would still be needed to bring the existing buildings up to the standard expected in a modern college. Fundamentally, however, refurbishing the existing estate would not enable the new College to realise its educational vision. It also wouldn’t represent the best value for money: running costs would be higher and less flexibility would mean frequent and costly changes would be required.
Doing nothing isn’t an option either. If the constraints of the existing estate aren’t addressed, the College will fall behind alternative education providers and fail to prepare learners for employment or higher education. It will also affect its ability to forge effective relationships with business and industry. This would have detrimental knock-on effects for the economy of Glasgow.
