Four-college proposal for Hastings and Rother

FOUR colleges offering high quality courses for young people and adults is the preferred option of the post-16 review in Hastings and Rother.

By The Newsroom

Published 16th Sep 2003, 12:41 BST

Updated 7th Jun 2018, 23:21 BST

This option will now be recommended to East Sussex County Council's Cabinet which meets on September 23.

The colleges, seen as potential centres of educational excellence, will be based at Hastings, Bexhill, St Leonards and Battle.

They have provisionally been named the Hastings and Rother Collegiate.

The Project Board, which led the review on behalf og the Sussex Learning and Skills Council, has concluded that this tertiary option offers the best choice to youngsters. It will lead to a higher quality of education, greater opportunities, a broader curriculum and an increase in skills development, vital for the economic regeneration of the Hastings and Rother areas.