ALFA-COLLEGE

Alfa-college is a denominational Regional Education Centre (ROC) for vocational training and adult education. The ROC provides a coherent range of courses enabling young people and adults to gain qualifications for further education and the labour market. Alfa-college has over 11,500 students in the age range of 16 – 60 and 1,000 members of staff at various divisions in the north-eastern part of the Netherlands with Groningen as its centre. Alfa-college caters for a wide range of intermediate vocational training ( business studies, hospitality, tourism and leisure, security, ICT, beauty care and wellness, hairdressing, health and social care, retail, sports, technology and tailor-made adult education from which (young) people can choose, fitting in with their ambition and talent with which they can obtain a strong position on the labour market due to the fact that apart from social behaviour attention is paid to functioning in an organisation. Furthermore Alfa-college provides tailor-made courses for business and industry.
General secondary education i.e. fast track pre-university courses are offered within adult education.
Alfa-college also teach Dutch as a second language in combination with vocational education to asylum seekers, refugees and immigrants.
The Ministry of Education in the Netherlands has created a policy framework in which the ROCs have to be transformed into social enterprises. This has resulted in the obligation to see to an adequate tie-up between education and the labour market.
Alfa-college works closely together in international projects aimed at innovation and renewal of educational programmes. We participate under various international Lifelong Learning Programmes funded by Leonardo da Vinci, Comenius, Grundtvig, Erasmus plus and other EU programmes.
The ROC’s programme focuses on the development of the European dimension in VET. Within the framework of the strategy policy for the Northern Netherlands and because of Alfa-college’s presence in this area, the college has developed the following objectives: to improve the skills and competencies of people, especially of young people, in initial vocational training at all levels, with a view to facilitating their integration and reintegration in the labour market. To improve the quality of, and access to, vocational education and training systems and qualifications, and to guidance systems in order to enhance the employability of young people and adults in the labour market.
Contact person/s: Mrs Hanneke Smid
Full postal address: Boumaboulevard 573, Groningen, Netherlands
Tel: 0031615055026
Email: jgf.smid@alfa.college.nl
Partner website: https://www.alfa-college.nl