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A group set up to save Newton Rigg College said it still had confidence in its plans to buy the campus. It was announced yesterday that the Further Education Commissioner-led Newton Rigg Strategic Review concluded it had been unable to identify an organisation to continue delivering sustainable land-based education at...
The Newton Rigg Campus in Penrith TWO former Workington MPs described the decision to close Cumbria's 125-year-old agricultural college with more than 100 jobs losses as 'shameful' and 'very distressing'. Dale Campbell-Savours and Baroness Sue Hayworth have joined forces with former cabinet minister, Lord David Clark of Windermere, in condemning the announcement this week by the Further Education Commissioner that Newton Rigg College at Penrith was 'financially unviable', and declared no suitable bids had been received to take it over. Former Shadow Cabinet member, Sue Haworth, said she...
Two multi-million pound bids which were resubmitted to secure a viable future for Newton Rigg College, in Cumbria, have been unsuccessful. The final
A final decision about the future of Newton Rigg has been announced. The final element of the Further Education Commissioner-led Newton Rigg Strategic Review has concluded that it had been unable to identify an organisation to continue delivering sustainable land based education at the campus, and that Askham Bryan College should continue with finding a buyer for the site. The review identified that most provision currently delivered at Newton Rigg can be provided in Cumbria by other post-16 FE providers. In addition, other arrangements to ensure the continuity of land based provision in the ...
THREE Cumbrian peers have called on the current owners of Newton Rigg College to lift the ‘wall of secrecy’ surrounding the institution’s…