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An Organizational Overview

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Bradford College

Table of Content
Bradford College ........................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction of the organization .................................................................................................................... 3 Vision of the Bradford College ................................................................................................................. 3

The English Language Center ................................................................................................................... 4 Scholarships: ............................................................................................................................................. 5 Accommodation: ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Organization of the company: ....................................................................................................................... 5

Legislation: ............................................................................................................................................... 6 Economy: .................................................................................................................................................. 6 Competition: ............................................................................................................................................. 7

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Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................... 8

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External Influences ....................................................................................................................................... 6

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Course offering: ........................................................................................................................................ 3

Bradford College

Introduction of the organization


Vision of the Bradford College

Our vision for the future is exciting and will provide our students with a new icon that will come to symbolize Bradford College in the next decade. The Big Green B will become familiar during 2007 across the city region. (Bradford College Site, 2010) Bradford College located in the Bradford is the largest higher education college. Its in the North of England. The approximate numbers of students in Bradford College are 25000.

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Princess and Prince of Wales in June 23, 1882 (later Kind Edward VII ) opens the new school. They were welcomed with warmth and respect. This continues in 1982 when this institution was named Bradford and Ilkley Community College. There was a merger with Ilkley College, presented the combined college and a small satellite campus in the town, in the North-east of Bradford. After its closure it was named as Bradford College. The major quality of the Bradford College is that its presenting more than any other college, the courses than can also be included in the university. That includes approximately 170 full and part time Higher Education courses that can be chosen in between the validated and associated degrees by Leeds Metropolitan University. Before that their validation was with The University of Bradford. The final cohort that graduated with the previous validation was in December 2007. In May 2008, Bradford College had applied for the University Status to award their own degrees. The new building in Bridge Street was opened by William Edward Forster (Bradford MP). The merger pursued proposal plan occurred on 2002 in between the Bradford College and the University of Bradford, this continues to summer of 2003. Then the joint merger calling off was presented. On the 175th celebrations of the College, the heroes 175 alumni of the college were published. In 2006 Bradford College had a Trinity Green, having a sports center and teaching facilities for construction engineering students. Appleton Building named after the Bradford Scientists Edward Victor Appleton. Also the after Samuel Lister was named the Colleges Lister Building.

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Bradford Offers a wide range of courses to accompany the most in demand needs of the emerging knowledge not only in UK but around the world. Bradford College had taken care of

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Beauty Therapy Arts and Media Business Finance Fashion Computing Leadership & Management Law Marketing Engineering Construction Travel & Tourism Management Early Years and Teaching Ophthalmic Dispensing Public Services Sport Health, Community and Social Care.

Other than that, Bradford College provides its students a fully equipped and up-to-dated Libraries and IT facilities. So not only the effectiveness of the students increases but also the ease and comfort which brings an immersive experience in learning at Bradford College. The degrees of quality Higher Education are awarded by Leeds Metropolitan University.

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The English Language Center of Bradford College is equipped to fulfill the emerging
needs of the diversified students lingual needs to excel in their specific course of studies and to reduce the communication gaps. This provides a full range of courses suitable for the International students above the age of 16. The acridities for the Center are from the British Council and membership of English UK and English in North. The wide range of courses in English includes General English Academic English English Plus Foundation Summer Schools

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the impact of globalization and the needs that are produced with that. College not only brings diversifications in courses but also the students are from a diversified geographical and ethical groups, this creates a great multicultural and wide dimensional experience environment to study and learn to perfection the expertise. The Bradford City attracts 9 million visitors a year (studylink, 2010). This brings a global impact on the students of the Bradford College. To meet the needs of this impact, Bradford College Offers in,

Pre-seasonal Schools

Scholarships:

Accommodation:

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Another support service Bradford College presents to its students are the quality accommodations. These are availed by the majority of the International Students, and feel comfort and ease in learning through their tenure and Bradford College.

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Organizational chart is a graphical representation of the structure of organization that shows the relative positions of individuals in an organization. It tells about the reporting relationship prevalent in the organization and formal lines of communication between individuals. It is a formal mechanism that describes who reports to whom, how tasks are delegated, and it helps in motivating and controlling employees. It also shows how employees coordinate with each other to get the work done. Generally there are four types of organizational structures: functional, divisional, matrix and flat or horizontally linked structures. These different types of structures are used by different types of organizations and each has its pros and cons. Organizations tend to choose the structure that best suit their needs. Organizational charts are detailed graphical representation of organization structures and hierarchies. Organizational chart tells both employees and individuals outside the organization about the reporting relationships of the organization, how tasks are divided and delegated, and

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Bradford College, also take care of the financial constraints of the dedicated and passionate students, by offering different Scholarships. The scholarships details are available on the official website of the Bradford College.

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Not only the learning side is strong for the Bradford College, but also the College is designated the Center of Excellence in teaching and Training. The life learning style of the College is so healthy and ready to nourish the young ambitious and ready to learn students of Bradford College.

the management levels established in the organization. Organizations allocate duties, activities and management authority to its employees, empowering some more than others, and they have to make sure that the distributed tasks are coordinated with no redundancies and gaps left in operations and management. A detailed organizational chart can help managers and decision makers analyze if there are any redundancies or gaps left that needs to be filled. Organizational Charts of the different departments and the effectiveness hierarchy is shown in appendix I.

External Influences

An organization faces a lot of impacts, some of them are internal and some are external. Giving a bigger indepth pictuture of the Bradford College will discuss some of the external influences that are faced in the global era by College.

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The external influences that affect this organization are

Legislation:

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Economy:

The Educational institutes are not like other manufacturing or commons service providing organizations. But the out of their input is the students who are humans and have not only the impact on their lives but will also impact the society or group they will go back after the tenure from this Bradfrod College. In order to make sure of that, the College had to create strict but non stressing and relax policies and regulations, which can nourish the students personality in a way, that their objectives can be alligned with the societal development and create a positive impact on their regions. The well learned and graduated students are not only representing themselves as the profession they will chose but also represents the image and brand of the Bradford College. Thus to preserves all these things the College had to take micro level analysis, controlling and monitoring of the Liscences they acquire. Which can gurantee to the society and the people associated with the students who take admissions in the Bradford College, that they will be a developing and progressingpart of the society during and after the tenure of their Higher eductation. Legalisation is a sensitive and a requires a well developed plans. Thus is an utmost important external influence of the Bradford College.

Economical circumstances are the phenomenal major impacts for any organization. They are not only highly corelated with other organizations in the same industry but also with the organizations and institutes who are not associated in the industry. The fluctations brings the economic downturns and the cashflow instability or boost, in either case a propoer in depth planning is required to maintain the financial strength of the business of the organization. So that the organization can fulfill its expenses and can be stabil to work on. Economical analysis and

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Competition:

The competition in the industry is another major factor that can influence the organizational growth and stability of the organization. The strategies of the competiting organizations in the same educatoin domain might cause a lower market for the prospectous students. This will not only reduces the earnings but the image and stability of the organization. Thus to control competition, the Bradford College, is keeping its image, services and quality up-to-date. Bradford Colleges Marketing Strategy is supportive enough to compete them in the educational industry of UK. This makes them to bring a good image infront of the hiring employer and the prospectous Students. These can affect the operation of the business in this way that the more the competition the university the lesser talented and skilled students are liable to apply at Bradford. The competition currently in the UK itself is very daunting. Most of the universities are fighting for foreign students to apply to their institutes because it effects the financial situation of the organization and enables them to provide more opportutinites for the students at Bradford University. These factors are important because the organization would need to address them head on because the competition would take away all of their funding since most of the funding comes from research institutes and fortune 500 companies that intend to hire such individuals the university has to look into the situation immediately and work on a solution so that the fundings do not escape to their rival universities. The overall situaiton of the global economy is also important since it prevents foreign students from entering the country legally due to higher costs of travel and study and bars them from enrolling themselves in any education institute. These students are the life line to the institute because they not only pay for their fees in full but also use most of the university insfrastructure and thus contribute more than the average local student.

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The overall situaiton of the economy in the country has made it difficult for the university management to gather honourable and rich guests and funding for the university and since government grants are in scarcity the university has to rely on the use of their own fund raising by arranging events that would attract the rich fund philanthropists.

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the industry analysis is a very importan factor that should be considered during every quarter of the orgnaiztional financial year. So to access for the future projections and gian more to provide better quality services. Other than these economical issues the impact on the other industry orgnaizations also influence hard. Forinstance the decreasing growth rate in the industry might cause the lesser enrollment in a particular course. The increasing costs of the might increase the tution fees and make the students resistive to enrol. The funding of the university, the job demand in the market, the ratio of students applying at the university, the competition in terms of the courses being offered by rival universities or the competitveness of the rival organizations.

Conclusion
After having an in depth analysis of the organization Bradford College, we can conclude that the organization is expanding and growing comparatively at a better rate in the industry of education in UK. Bradford College had developed an image and markets its services through the Quality and commitment they promised to their students and the affecters. Bradford College had developed a quality image, but at the same time it has to be well stable and aware of the external influences that can effect in a very immense manner to the organization and its stakeholders. Bradford College had controlled most of the external influences, but still economic and Competitive external influences are highly uncertain to determine. Quality of the services of the Bradford College is depicted form the social entities they produce in the different course of field of life. These are the students who join different societal responsibilities to endorse their learning and the society.

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The major difference that educational organizational can create in this area is through the quality service and the uniqueness in the methodology of the nourishment of the students. We can conclude that the Bradford College is the well Renown College in UK and is globally recognized in providing its quality services.

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Bibliography
Bradford College. (n.d.). About Us. Retrieved April 21, 2010, from Bradford College: http://www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/about-us Bradford College. (n.d.). Courses. Retrieved April 21, 2010, from Bradford College: http://www.bradfordcollege.ac.uk/courses O'Malley, P. T. (2000). Bradford College. Arcadia Publishing.

Uniguru. (n.d.). Bradford College UK. Retrieved April 22, 2010, from uniguru : http://www.uniguru.com/studyabroad/uk/universities-colleges/bradford-college/indian-studentsreviews/university-ranking-5664.html Wikipedia. (2010, April 20). Bradford College. Retrieved April 22, 2010, from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_College_%28England%29#History

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