HPY ACCOUNTABILITY STATEMENT 2025

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Hartpury College 2025-2026 Accountability Statement

2.0 CONTEXT AND PLACE

Located in the Forest of Dean District in Gloucestershire and originally formed as an Agricultural College in 1948, Hartpury has a long and established history of delivering high quality, specialist education in Sport and Land-based studies on a local and national scale. In September 2018 the organisation evolved to become a University and a College co-located on a single site, creating a unique organisation within the sector, and providing a number of strategic and operational benefits to the student experience. Hartpury’s 2030 mission is to deliver outstanding University and College education in land-based, sport & related disciplines, to equip our students with real-world skills for the benefit of local, regional, national & global communities.

This mission is reflected in the way that the portfolio of Hartpury College courses in particular has evolved: in line with DfE guidance Hartpury offers small number of high quality programmes that have been co-designed with employers and have a strong track record of delivering good outcomes for learners