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Feversham College at Present
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Feversham College presently accommodates 190 girls, and has a total of 14 female teachers. There are seven full-time and seven part time teachers, who have been instrumental in helping Feversham College achieve significant academic developments. The staff team of Feversham College is committed and dedicated to the notion, and value the importance of single sex education for Muslim girls, and will continue to play a major role in the future development of the college. This will provide stability, maintain ethos, reassure parents and enable the proposed new school to build on present success.
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The college follows the National Curriculum and hence offers a diverse range of subjects, but due to lack of sufficient funding, inadequate accommodation and meagre resources it has some minor omissions. However, even within the limitations imposed by various factors, such as the state of the present building, lack of funding and resources and non-selective intake, the college still manages to achieve very good GCSE results in comparison with schools of similar size in Bradford.
Feversham College offers an educational opportunity to some of the most impoverished and educationally deprived families. Feversham College also provides the parents an opportunity to educate their daughters in an Islamic environment, where their daughters can excel academically, without any adverse cultural pressures. The college, even with its limited funding and resources, has been a strong success story so far. This has been greatly due to the desire and determination of all those involved in overcoming the obstacles to achieve the goal of providing high standard of education to Muslim girls in Bradford.
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The Prosposed New Feversham College
The new site currently being proposed to accommodate Feversham College is situated on Cliffe Road, Bradford. This site previously housed UnderCliffe Middle School and has become vacant due to changes in the local school structures from a three-tier system to a two-tier system. The new college will have the capacity to accommodate 580 girls and will be classed as a secondary (11 – 18 years old) college.
Feversham College will have a minimum of 33 female teachers, a figure, which will be more than double the present number of teachers. This will inevitably bring about significant improvements in the entire curriculum as well as in specialist teaching areas across the curriculum. There will also be a greater diversity in the subjects taught to students due to increased funding and resources.
The Local Education Authority (LEA) of Bradford will assume total financial responsibility for the running costs of Feversham College. The LEA will also assist the Board of Governors in ensuring that high standards of National Curriculum are maintained and monitored on regular basis. The LEA already has a close relationship with Feversham College and has been a key driving force behind the current VAS proposal. The LEA will be playing a major role in the development of a new management structure with its assistance in appointing suitably qualified new teachers.
The improvements will further enhance the attractiveness of Feversham College in the eyes of the Bradford Muslim Community. The improvements will also enable the new college to continue enhancing, in terms of academic achievements, and grow from strength to strength in the years to come. The aim of Feversham College will be to position itself amongst the highest achieving schools in the Bradford District.
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