Gazelle Group Explained

The Gazelle Group (also known as Gazelle Colleges or Gazelle Colleges Group) was an association of United Kingdom further education colleges which claimed to promote entrepreneurship. It has been widely criticised for its accounting practices.^[1] To date, no one has been held accountable for the failures of the organisation.^[2] It was founded in 2011^[3] or January 2012.^[4]

A report in FE Week in January 2017 reported that only six colleges remained in the group and that its executive director had left, and described the group as "on its last legs"., Companies House records that the Gazelle Colleges Group was a company registered in 2016 and which was "dissolved via voluntary strike-off " in 2021.^[5]

Members

There were 22 member colleges :^[6]

England

• Amersham & Wycombe College, Buckinghamshire
• Barking and Dagenham College, London
• Carlisle College, Cumbria
• City College Norwich, Norfolk
• City College Plymouth, Devon
• City of Bath College, Somerset
• The City of Liverpool College, Merseyside
• Gateshead College, Tyne and Wear
• Gloucestershire College, Gloucestershire
• Highbury College, Portsmouth
• LeSoCo: Lewisham College, incorporating Southwark College, London
• Middlesbrough College, Middlesbrough
• New College Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
• North Hertfordshire College, Hertfordshire
• Oxford and Cherwell Valley College, Oxfordshire
• Peterborough Regional College, Cambridgeshire
• Preston's College, Lancashire
• The Sheffield College, South Yorkshire
• Warwickshire College
• Walsall College, West Midlands

Northern Ireland

• South West College

Scotland

• Glasgow Kelvin College

Wales

• Cardiff and Vale College

Notes and References

1. News: Business guru praises local scheme with global reach. Lee. Joseph. 7 December 2012. TES Magazine. 26 April 2014.
2. News: FE Week. Gazelle Group on its last legs after its director and most members quit. 6 January 2017 . 14 March 2024.
3. Web site: Gazelle: Top Ten FAQs. Highbury College Portsmouth. 26 April 2014.
4. Web site: About us . Gazelle Colleges . 26 April 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140427010538/http://www.gazellecolleges.com/about-us . 27 April 2014 .
5. Web site: Gazelle Colleges Group: Filing history . find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk . Companies House . 14 March 2024 . en.
6. Web site: Colleges . Gazelle Colleges . 26 April 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140427012659/http://www.gazellecolleges.com/colleges?page=1 . 27 April 2014 .