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IN VIEW
A NEW ERA, A NEW NAME AND INVESTMENT IN THE FUTURE
Formerly known as Nelson and Colne College Group
“We feel we are bringing things up to date and the feedback we have received about this has been tremendously positive.”
The education provider caters for over 2,500 school leavers in the east of the county and beyond who are enrolled in a range of academic and vocational courses.
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The new branding for the group will see both of its colleges retain their individual names, as will its Lancashire Adult Learning arm, which delivers more than 2,000 courses at over 300 venues across the county and engages with 10,000-plus learners.
LISA O’LOUGHLIN
Principal and CEO East Lancashire Learning Group
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A new name for a new era.
That’s how Principal Lisa O’Loughlin describes Nelson and Colne College Group becoming East Lancashire Learning Group (ELLG).
The new name for the college group, which has built up a national reputation for educational success, reflects the area it serves and what it delivers for its students and its communities.
And as Lisa explains, there is more to it than a rebranding exercise for the group, which was awarded its third consecutive ‘outstanding’ grade from Ofsted earlier this year.
She says: “The name change better reflects who we are and what we do.”
“Our old name came out of the merger of Nelson and Colne College and Accrington and Rossendale College. We have three centres in Nelson, Accrington and Brierfield and we serve communities across East Lancashire: this name better reflects that.
The group will build on the outstanding academic heritage of Nelson and Colne College, the nationally recognised adult learning provision of LAL, and the pioneering technical and vocational strengths of Accrington and Rossendale College.
The group’s name change also highlights the wide range of learning opportunities the award-winning group delivers – opportunities enhanced by recent major investments, on the back of strategic plans designed to offer more, with even more to come.
Part of that drive has been to improve the group’s technical education facilities, with a particular focus on the Accrington campus.
Lisa says: “We carried out a strategic review which began in 2023. One of its findings was that 700 students from Accrington were travelling outside Hyndburn for their technical education and most of those were commuting for more than 40 minutes. We needed to do something to address that.”
To enhance its offer to students in the borough, ELLG has embarked on a major multi-million pound investment programme to create “game-changing” Industry Innovation Hubs (IIHs) centring on digital and health.
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