Luminate Education Group

Yorkshire-based college group

Luminate Education Group (formerly Leeds City College Group[1]) brings together a number of secondary, further and higher education institutions in Yorkshire, England. It was renamed from Leeds City College Group in December 2018 to better reflect its growing portfolio of institutions.[2]

The chief executive of Luminate is Colin Booth.[3]

Organisation

The members of the group, as of October 2023[update] are:[4]

  • Leeds City College,[1] formed from the merger in 2009 of Park Lane College Leeds, Leeds College of Technology and Leeds Thomas Danby College along with Joseph Priestley College (which joined in 2011)
  • Harrogate College, which joined the Group on 1 August 2019.[1][5][6]
  • Keighley College[1][7]
  • Leeds Sixth Form College[8]
  • Leeds Conservatoire, formerly Leeds College of Music[1]
  • University Centre Leeds[9]

The group has over 30,000 students and apprentices.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Camden, Billy (26 April 2019). "Troubled Hull College Group to downsize". FE Week. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  2. ^ Luminate Education Group, Radiating Positivity. Transforming Lives, Luminate Education Group Strategy 2019–2021
  3. ^ Hill, Jessica (11 July 2023). "Colin Booth, chief executive, Luminate Education Group: From living homeless in his car to becoming a national FE leader". FE Week. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  4. ^ a b "FAQs". Luminate. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Hull College Group agrees transfer of Harrogate College". Insider Media Ltd. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  6. ^ "Harrogate College joins Luminate Education Group". Harrogate College. 26 April 2019. Retrieved 30 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Home". Keighley College. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  8. ^ "Home". Leeds Sixth Form College. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  9. ^ "Home". University Centre Leeds. Retrieved 26 October 2023.
  • Luminate Education Group