The Department of Health and Social Care announced on Friday (24 September) that all 16 and 17 year olds can now book their first COVID-19 vaccination appointment online.

East Sussex College has been allocated further funding for the 21/22 Academic Year to meet the ‘catch-up’ needs of students most affected by the disruption of the COVID-19 lock downs.

The government will continue to manage the risk of serious illness from the spread of the virus. This marks a new phase in the government’s response to the pandemic, moving away from stringent restrictions on everyone’s day-to-day lives, towards advising people on how to protect themselves and others, alongside targeted interventions to reduce risk.

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This week (10th May) the Prime Minister confirmed that students will no longer be required to wear face coverings in classrooms and communal areas from Monday 17th May.

Students can continue to wear face coverings if they wish to do so.

All other protective measures such as ventilation and social distancing where possible will remain in place.

We have today received news of a confirmed student case of Covid-19 at our East Sussex College Eastbourne campus.

In summer 2021 and in line with Ofqual guidance, awarding bodies will ask Centres like ESCG to generate a Teacher Assessed Grade (TAG) for GCSE’s and A Level, and in some vocational courses qualifications. We have been asked to create a comprehensive Centre policy to provide clarity of our approach. A summary is provided below (The full policy can be accessed via our website here).

Today we had a student test positive with a confirmed case of Covid 19 at our Eastbourne campus.

A message from Rebecca Conroy, CEO and Principal

We are getting ready to welcome you back during the week commencing 8th March.

Ofqual, the exams regulator, is seeking student and parent input into proposed awarding arrangements for GCSE, A Levels and vocational and technical.qualifications.

As you will be aware the government announced last night that all schools and colleges should move to online learning from today until the February half term at the earliest.

Given the latest lockdown announcement last night East Sussex College has taken the decision to cancel all Assessments that were due to take place from today.

We are aware that over the break, there has been an upsurge in cases in the local areas. Students should not attend campus unless in specific groups identified below.

We have today received news of a confirmed student case of Coronavirus at East Sussex College at our Lewes Campus.

We have today received news of two confirmed cases of Coronavirus at East Sussex College at our Eastbourne Campus.

We have today received news of three further confirmed student cases of Coronavirus, two at our Eastbourne Campus and one at our Hastings campus.

We have a confirmed case of Coronavirus at our Hastings and at our Eastbourne campuses over the weekend.

We have a staff confirmed case of Covid 19 at our Hastings campus.

Three Eastbourne students (one A Level, one BTEC and one Hair & Beauty) have tested positive for COVID 19, but have not been into the campus since the 13th November.

Following on from yesterday’s email about our approach to the new lockdown measure I wanted to write to you again to outline our progress on planning with some key messages.

Schools, Colleges, Universities will remain open and I wanted to assure you that we are working on plans to prepare for this once England goes back into lockdown on Thursday.

We can confirm that a staff member at Lewes delivering English at the campus has tested positive for Coronavirus, and we have informed all of our staff, students, parents and carers about the confirmed case.

East Sussex College has been allocated funding to meet the ‘catch-up’ needs of students most affected by the disruption of the COVID-19 lock down from March- September 2020.

We can confirm that a student at the Station Plaza Hastings campus of East Sussex College Group has tested positive for Coronavirus, and we have informed all of our staff, students, parents and carers about the confirmed case.