Ada, the National College for Digital Skills

Ada, the National College for Digital Skills
Address
Map
1 Sutherland Street

London
,
SW1V 4LD
Coordinates51°29′22″N 0°08′50″W / 51.48931°N 0.14712°W / 51.48931; -0.14712
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MottoThink. Create. Develop.
Established2016
FounderMark Smith and Tom Fogden[2][3][4]
AuthorityCity Of Westminster
ChairTiffany Hall
PrincipalSarah Salimullah
Key peopleMark Campbell, Lazaros Vastazos, Ryan Manning, Neelu Vasishth [5]
Enrollment182 (2024)[6]
School feesfree[1]
Websitewww.ada.ac.uk
Last updated: 04/07/2024

Ada, the National College for Digital Skills is a specialist further education college and has campuses in Manchester and London, England. At the London Sixth Form college every 16-19year old student takes Computer Science and all of Ada's diverse Higher Level and Degree Apprentices work in skills shortage disciplines in innovative, blue-chip companies. It is named after Ada Lovelace and opened in September 2016.[7] Its curriculum is designed with input from founding industry partners such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Gamesys, IBM, Deloitte, and King. Their founding education partner is the Aldridge Foundation.[8] The Board is chaired by Tiffany Hall. The College focuses on achieving three aims:  

  1. To be the centre of excellence for the teaching and learning of advanced digital skills
  2. To offer students a viable, high-quality alternative to university  
  3. To be a beacon of best practice for employment-focused provision
  1. ^ "Ada's aims of accessible education". Ofsted. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  2. ^ "THE ADA STORY HOW WE CAME TO BE". Ada. National College for Digital Skills. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  3. ^ "How Ada aims to fill Britain's digital skills gap from Tottenham Hale". Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  4. ^ Whittaker, Freddie (26 January 2015). "Digital skills duo told to drop Code College title". FE Week. Retrieved 27 February 2019.
  5. ^ Staff at Ada, retrieved 12 January 2024
  6. ^ "Ada National College for Digital Skills". Ofsted. Retrieved 21 March 2023.
  7. ^ Hill, Dave (19 August 2016). "How Ada aims to fill Britain's digital skills gap from Tottenham Hale". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
  8. ^ Hurst, Greg. "First college of coding aims to unlock Britain's silicon skills". Retrieved 1 August 2017.