HC Deb 30 June 1992 vol 210 cc545-6W
Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment which schools and colleges are intending to pilot the new GNVQ post-16 courses in September.

Mr. McLoughlin

As at 26 June 1992, around 90 schools and colleges plan to participate in the first phase of the implementation of GNVQ post-16 courses in September this year. The schools and colleges are located throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The following is the full list of schools and colleges but may be subject to minor variation between now and September.

List of centres for September 1992 GNVQ implementation (as at 26 June)
Each centre will offer GNVQs through one awarding body, either BTEC, C and G or RSA
Centre Area
Airedale and Wharfdale college/Kitson college consortium Leeds
Alcester grammar school Alcester, Warwickshire
Amersham and Wycombe college (FE) High Wycombe
Barnfield college Luton, Bedfordshire
Barnsley college Barnsley, Yorkshire
Belfast consortium: Belfast Institute of FE and HE, St. Patrick's secondary school Belfast
Bilston community college (FE) Wolverhampton
Bishop Douglass school Finchley, North London
Blackburn college Lancashire
Blackpool and Fylde college/Wigan and Leigh consortium Blackpool
Blue school (The) Wells, Somerset
Builth Wells high school Powys
Bury metropolitan college Lancashire
Buxton community school Buxton, Derbyshire
Calderdale college of FE Halifax
Castle high school Deal, Kent
Castlereagh college/Lagan college Belfast, HI
Coventry technical college Coventry
Crawley college West Sussex
Driffield school North Humberside
East Sussex consortium Lewes college/Bexhill college/Cardinal Newman school/Uplands community school East Sussex
Eastbourne college of arts and technology Eastbourne, East Sussex
Ellen Wilkinson highschool West London
Farnborough college of technology Hampshire
Farnham college 6th form Farnham, Surrey
Ferndown upper school Dorset
Gateshead college Gateshead
Gloucestershire college of arts and technology Gloucestershire
Gorseinon college Swansea, Wales
Greenhead college (6th form college) Huddersfield
Greenhill college Harrow, Middlesex
Guildford college/Kingston college consortium Surrey
Gyfun Ysgol Bargoed, Mid Glamorgan
Henley college Coventry
Hertfordshire LEA consortium/ Hertford regional college/North Herts college/Oaklands college Hertfordshire
Hirst high school Northumberland
Hull college of FE Hull
John Ruskin (6th form college) South Croydon
Josiah Mason college (6th form college) Birmingham
Kingshurst CTC Birmingham
Leigh CTC Kent

Centre Area
Lliswerry school Newport
Lord Williams school Oxon
Lytchett Minster school Dorset
Manchester college of arts and technology Manchester
Matthew Boulton/Wakefield district college consortium Birmingham/Wakefield
Mid Kent college of HE and FE Maidstone, Kent
Minsthorpe high school Wakefield
Monkswearmouth college Sunderland
Mortimer Wilson school Derbyshire
N East London college Haringey, London N1
Nelson Tomlinson school Wigton, Cumbria
Newcastle CAT Newcastle Upon Tyne
North Lindsay college Scunthorpe
Nottinghamshire college of FE (schools consortium) Mansfield, Notts.
NWIHFE consortium: NW Inst. of FE and HE, Foyle and Londonderry, Thornhill colleges, St. Marys, St. Cec Londonderry
Parkwood/Loxley college consortium Sheffield
Peterlee college Durham
Plymouth college of FE Devon
Portsmouth 6th form college Portsmouth
Purbeck school Dorset
Queen Elizabeth's school Dorset
Queens Park community school London NW6
Samuel Whitbread school Bedfordshire
Sandwell college W. Midlands
Scarborough technical college N. Yorkshire
Sherburn high school N. Yorkshire
St. Andrews school Surrey
St. Brendans 6th form college Bristol
St. Chads school Cheshire
St. Charles catholic school W. London
St. Peters school Dorset
St. Helens community/South Manchester/Wirral Metropolitan college consortium North West
Stamford college FE Stamford, Lines
Stantonbury Campus Milton Keynes
Stockton-Billingham technical college Billingham
Sutton high school Liverpool
Swanwick Hall school Derbyshire
Tamar Valley consortium Eggbuckland, Estover, Lipson, St. Bonifaces colleges/Southway and Tamarside schools Plymouth, Devon
Tewkesbury school Gloucestershire
Walsall TVEI consortium Bluecoat, Manor Farm Schools, Walsall colleges of art and technology West Midlands
Weatherhead high school Merseyside
West Nottinghamshire college of FE Mansfield,
Nottinghamshire
Whitby Co high school Wirral
Whitby school N. Yorkshire
Witham 6th form Essex
WJEC (schools consortium) BridgendNewport, Pembrokeshire and Pontypridd colleges Wales
Wootton Bassett school Wiltshire
York school Carlisle, Cumbria