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Newsletter February 2024

Newsletter February 2024 The Chris Davies Award was inaugurated at the previous year's graduation ceremony. Networking EVENT -Nelson College London was privileged to attend the FoodService Growth event at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre on 6th December.

Newsletter October 2023

BTEC HND in Hospitality Management has undergone a successful External Examiner Visit on 3rd July 2023. In their feedback they highlighted the following key areas that demonstrated exceptional practice:

Newsletter May 2023

Newsletter May 2023 NCL’s Biggest Annual Event EMPLOYABILITY & ENTREPRENEURSHIP FORUM/LEARNING, TEACHING ENGAGEMENT & ENHANCEMENT CONFERENCE.

Newsletter February 2023

Newsletter February 2023 NCL & New Degree Awarding Powers , Our forthcoming application for New Degree Awarding Powers is an exciting project for NCL and involves many staff colleagues and students , NCL Student President We are both proud and excited to announce an NCL first! We are delighted to announce our first ever Student President.

Newsletter October 2022

Welcome back to all of our students. And to those newly joining us, welcome to Nelson College London. We hope you had a peaceful and enjoyable summer break. We have a packed newsletter for you, capturing all the news and as many of the events and occasions as we can, that have happened since our last newsletter.

Newsletter May 2022

I am delighted to announce that Nelson College has formally notified the Office for Students of its intention to make an application for New Degree Awarding Powers in respect of taught awards in Business and Hospitality Management.

Newsletter October 2021

The past two years has indeed been a difficult time for all of us as the deadly pandemic Covid-19 placed a massive strain on our movements, freedom as well as our physical and mental health at large. It’s an undisputable fact that our teaching and learning was hugely affected even though there were other avenues such as online sessions available to stimulate effective teaching and learning. The College would like to express its endless gratitude to all stakeholders such as Staff, Lecturers, Covid-19 Testing Team and all non-teaching staff for all their resilience, hard work and positivity throughout the pandemic.

Newsletter Oct 2020

Nelson College London YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/ nelsoncollegelondon Check out all new academic videos on the NCL YouTube channel. Specially produced by Nelson College London, with a view to help you with your assignments and to create a better understanding of your units/modules.

Newsletter May 2020

Work is currently underway to deliver another of NCL’s regular events, the Learning, Teaching, Engagement & Enhancement Conference, in a virtual format. The event, which will have contributions from a number of departments and teams across the College will be launched towards the end of May.

Newsletter February 2020

On the 10th of January, a female member of the Nelson College Family was hit by a car (on the crossing at Gants Hill Roundabout). Our colleague sustained severe injuries as a direct result of the collision!

Newsletter October 2019

The Office for Students has announced that Nelson College has been awarded a Silver rating as a result of the 2019 Teaching Excellence & Student Outcomes Framework exercise. Welcoming this award, Professor Geoffrey Alderman, Principal of the College, said: “Last year Nelson College was given a Bronze award, so the Silver award that’s been made to us this year is very welcome, and a tribute to the hard work, dedication and enthusiasm of all our staff and students. I congratulate them all on this result, which helps consolidate our position as a leading provider of higher education in our region.”

Newsletter May 2019

On Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th March a team of experts from London Metropolitan University visited Nelson College in order to carry out two important tasks. The first was to review how the College had been delivering programmes of study validated by the University for delivery by the College – namely two Foundation Degrees (in Business & Hospitality Management) and two ‘top-up’ programmes to convert Pearsonvalidated HNDs into London Met-validated Bachelor’s degrees. The second was to validate two taught Master’s degrees: one in International Business (Management) and one in International Business (Hospitality Management). I am pleased to report that London Met’s team has recommended – subject to conditions being fulfilled – both the revalidation of existing London Met-accredited programmes and the validation of the proposed Master’s degrees.

Newsletter February 2019

This year’s Graduation Ceremony took place at City Gates Conference Centre on 22nd November 2018. Those in attendance included Prof. Geoffrey Alderman (Principal), Nazim Uddin (Director/Head Of Quality Assurance), Athiqul Islam (Director) and Shiraj Islam (Director). Speeches were given by: Aaron Porter (The Chair), Geoffrey Alderman (Principal), David Douglas (Head of Programme Delivery), Margaret Amakawah (Programme Leader & Chief IV), Mudassar Mehmood (Academic Manager/Programme Leader & Chief IV). Also, two student representatives Happy Begum Khan and Anna Cichocka delivered speeches as well. In total, 143 Business students and 150 Hospitality Management students graduated from Spetember 2016 intake. They were presented with their Awards by principal Geoffrey Alderman.

Newsletter October 2018

Whether you are a returning student on one of our Top-up or HND Programmes, or you have just joined us on a HND Programme, Nelson College London would like to convey the warmest welcome back from the summer break, to all of our students. Since you’ve been away, the college has undergone a QAA review, and received its Office for Students (OfS) registration. A message from the Nelson College London: The College is delighted to announce that Nelson College London is one of the first for-profit private colleges and one of the leading providers of career-focused higher education in East London that has achieved registration status from the Office for Students. Announcing this news, Nelson College Principal Professor Geoffrey Alderman explained that this registration “means that the College meets Office for Students requirements for course quality, academic standards, student support, student protection and more.” As an OfS-registered higher-education provider, Nelson College will be able to charge fees up to the highest level approved by the Department for Education – just over £9,000 per annum. British and EU students will be entitled to borrow these fees from the Student Loans Company. Much of this money will be used to support the College’s Access & Participation Plan, which the OfS has also approved and which is now publicly available on the College website.

Newsletter May 2018

Pearson Academic Management Review The Pearson Academic Management Review took place at the College on 8 March 2018, at both of our campuses. These visits aim to conduct a review of our centre-wide quality assurance systems against the Quality Objectives and Measure framework in order to provide judgements and feedback. This process is undertaken to safeguard the safe certification of BTEC qualifications.” The College received a report outlining the outcomes of the visit, which detailed that no essential actions or recommendations were made as a result of the review. The College is pleased with this result, and hopes to continue operating under rigorous and transparent systems and procedures.

Newsletter February 2018

We are continuously working to improving our facilities to enhance student life at NCL. The Ilford campus has now moved its operations to the 4th floor of the Olympic House building. Classes are now located on the 4th floor. The student common room / computer room is still available to use on the 2nd floor, along with the kitchen facilities and classrooms (rooms 223 & 224). The Student Support Teams are located behind reception, where they are available to answer any of your questions regarding your assessments and submissions. We hope to bring about positive changes with this development. By bringing staff and students closer together, we can foster a more constructive learning environment. If you have any suggestions, questions, or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact a member of staff, who will do their best to assist you.

Newsletter October 2017

A warm welcome back to all our staff and students, we hope you had a restful and enjoyable summer and are ready for the new term ahead. The College has been working hard throughout the summer, preparing for the return of students and to make this the best year yet! There are many exciting new developments which we are proud to announce, so make sure you are keeping up to date with everything by regularly checking VLE and by visiting the College website at www.nelsoncollege.ac.uk. With the end of student recruitment, and the anticipation of the beginning of term, the Student Induction event during the 11th-14th of September was an exciting first interacting with our new students. These informative sessions are built to relay vital information to students about the College and their Programmes/Courses, including the relevant Policies and Procedures (which can be found on the College website) and Programme/Course content. Students also had an opportunity to familiarise themselves with their staff and faculty, with whom they will be communicating with throughout their time at Nelson College London.

Newsletter May 2017

Mudassar Mehmood has accepted the position of Academic Manager for HND Programmes. Mr Mehmood has been with the College since September 2013, and took on the Programme Leader (HND Business) role in September 2016. Mr Mehmood’s background includes a degree in Business Management (2004) and Accounting and Finance (2007). He achieved his Masters in Accounting and Finance from the University of Wales (2008) and is currently working towards his PhD in Finance. He is an experienced lecturer and has extensive knowledge in the Business field as well as the education industry. We have enjoyed working with Mudassar and look forward to all future ventures in which he is involved with at the College. To get in touch with Mudassar, please email him at: m.mehmood@nelsoncollege.ac.uk

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Newsletter February 2024

Newsletter February 2024 The Chris Davies Award was inaugurated at the previous year's graduation ceremony. Networking EVENT -Nelson College London was privileged to attend the FoodService Growth event at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre on 6th December.

Newsletter October 2023

BTEC HND in Hospitality Management has undergone a successful External Examiner Visit on 3rd July 2023. In their feedback they highlighted the following key areas that demonstrated exceptional practice:

Newsletter May 2023

Newsletter May 2023 NCL’s Biggest Annual Event EMPLOYABILITY & ENTREPRENEURSHIP FORUM/LEARNING, TEACHING ENGAGEMENT & ENHANCEMENT CONFERENCE.

Newsletter February 2023

Newsletter February 2023 NCL & New Degree Awarding Powers , Our forthcoming application for New Degree Awarding Powers is an exciting project for NCL and involves many staff colleagues and students , NCL Student President We are both proud and excited to announce an NCL first! We are delighted to announce our first ever Student President.