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Bold action plan revealed to rebuild Newton Rigg College Plans to open a new Newton Rigg College in Cumbria have been revealed. It is hoped the new independent college will start welcoming its first students in September 2025. Behind the scheme is community organisation Newton Rigg Ltd, which has launched an urgent action plan to rebuild land-based education in the county. Operators of the Newton Rigg campus, Askham Bryan, announced that it was pulling out of Cumbria and shutting the facility�...

A PARLIAMENTARY inquiry has left MPs with a clear impression that land-based education needs to continue at closure-hit Newton Rigg College in Penrith. Following a one-off evidence session on land-based education provision in England, MPs on the House of Commons’ EFRA Committee are to raise concerns about national delivery of education for agriculture and the environment, which includes continued land-based education provision at Newton Rigg. During the evidence session, Tim Whittaker, ...