Healthy Colleges, A study and report into how Further Education
Colleges can promote health and well-being
by Richard Escolme, Kathryn James and Nicola Aylward – September 2002
Project Status: Completed
Further Education Colleges could play an important role in promoting
health among its students as part of social inclusion, improvement in
health and well-being strategies. This report explores the benefits of
developing Further Education Colleges into Healthy Colleges and considers
what changes are required in order for this to happen. The existing
National Healthy School Standard, which offers a model and guidance for
schools to follow in order to improve the health of pupils and staff,
provides the report an initial framework that is analysed in the context
of the concept of healthy colleges. Colleges have access to a population
of a significant size. They are more complex institutions than schools and
contain a wider age range, a much broader curriculum and learning can be
distance or on-line, all these factors are highlighted and need taken into
consideration when developing Healthy Colleges.
