Case study Case Study – Northampton College This Further and Higher Education College in the East Midlands received an overall Grade 3 (satisfactory) Ofsted inspection in April 2009. It joined the Acas-managed Innovative Workplaces project perceiving it to be a potential catalyst to assist in moving the college towards an Outstanding Grade 1 College by 2013. The outcome was the identifi cation of the importance of employee engagement and its connection to the college’s overall aims. Case study organisational background Northampton College is a provider of Further and Higher Education to some 12,000 learners. 4,500 of these are full-time students predominantly 16-19 years old. The remainder are, in the main, adult learners taking vocational and professional qualifi cations. A small

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