Abbey College, Malvern

For other uses, see Abbey College (disambiguation).
Abbey College
Established 1979
Type Independent residential tutorial college
Principal Colin Spicer
Founder MA Kaveh
Location 253 Wells Road
Malvern
Worcestershire
WR14 4JF
England
Coordinates: 52°04′21″N 2°19′58″W / 52.0725°N 2.3329°W / 52.0725; -2.3329
DfE number 885/6026
Staff 20 (Full Time)
20 (Part time)[1]
Students c100 [1]
Ages 14–20
Website Malvern Abbey College

Abbey College in Malvern, Worcestershire, England, is a small boarding school providing education mainly for students from countries outside the United Kingdom. The present college was founded in 1979 by MA Kaveh on a site that had been used for education since 1874.[2][3]

It is located on a 70 acres (28 ha) campus on the flanks of the Malvern Hills between Great Malvern and Malvern Wells.[4] The school is co-educational with around 100 students on its roll and specialises in pre-university education providing courses at GCSE, IGCSE, GCE AS Level, A-level, Foundation Level and English as a second or foreign language (ESOL).

In January 2014, Abbey College was fined £24,000 after pleading guilty to not reviewing existing fire risk assessments. Judge Michael Cullum told Hekmat Kaveh, who was running Abbey College,[5] "the risk assessments were 'woefully inadequate' and added: 'The consequences of a fire would have been disastrous.'"[6][7] Hekmat Kaveh responded that “the college now meets all regulatory requirements”.[6]

In October 2014, Colin Spicer was installed as the college's new principal.[8][9]

References

  1. 1 2 http://www.isbi.com/viewschool.asp?school=1533-Abbey_College ISBI Retrieved 8 August 2010
  2. School Location web page
  3. Abbey College in London and Malvern. British Boarding Schools Workshop. 2 October 2015.
  4. Ofsted inspection report 2006 Archived September 20, 2010, at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 8 August 2010 Cache
  5. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/schools/10233290/Top-independent-school-claims-ownership-of-couples-garden.html
  6. 1 2 "One of Britain's top public schools fined after judge describes fire safety measures as 'woefully inadequate'". Daily Mail. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 9 September 2015.
  7. "College owner fined £24,000 for breaches of Fire Regulations". Zeta Compliance Services. Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. Retrieved 7 December 2015.
  8. "Colin Spicer Archived October 3, 2015, at the Wayback Machine." ThePieJobs. 2 October 2015.
  9. "Staff profiles' Abbey College website. 2 October 2015.
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