Thank you for choosing to study at Adult Education Wolverhampton (AEW).
We are a service of City of Wolverhampton Council, funded by the government, whom undertake the delivery of Adult Education throughout Wolverhampton. Please read the Councils general privacy notice as well as this notice.
You may also want to read the following privacy notices:
We will collect and process your personal information to provide these services to you. This will include:
- Assessing your application for a course
- Assessing whether you meet any eligibility criteria for a course and/or public funding
- Undertaking returns to the government in respect of publicly funded education provided to you
- Report to the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) and Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA)
- Obtain unique learner numbers from the Learning Records Service
- To support your learning
- Monitor and report on student progress
- Provide appropriate pastoral care
- Assess the quality of our services
- Support you to decide what to do after you leave the programme of learning
- Provide information, advice and guidance and to promote further learning opportunities
- Carry out statistical analysis that allows us to target and plan the provision of services
- Personal details; including name, gender, address, email address, telephone number, National Insurance Number and date of birth
- Ethnicity
- Prior academic attainment
- Residency
- Health information (e.g. learning difficulties, disabilities and/or health problems that may affect your learning
- Employment and benefits status (in order to confirm eligibility for fee remission and WMCA and ESFA funding)
- Household data
- The course details you have enrolled on
- Financial details - details are only collected if you apply for financial support
- Examinations and achievements
- Visual images
We may record and monitor telephone calls to our contact centre for quality and training purposes.
We use CCTV at our buildings for the purpose of crime prevention, security and health and safety and accordingly will capture imagery of visitors to AEW.
We will retain this information for as long as it is required for these purposes and in accordance with WMCA, ESFA and European Social Fund (ESF) guidelines. For WMCA and ESFA this will be for seven years after your course has finished, for ESF funding 13 years.
We will also share certain information about students aged 16-19 with our local authority as they have responsibilities in relation to the education of training of 13-19 year olds under section 507B of the Education Act 1996.
AEW will not sell or share your information to a third party for marketing activities. AEW uses the term ‘marketing’ only in terms of advertising future courses or events.
For marketing purposes, we collect name, address, contact number, email address and postcode. We use this information to:
- Summarise your residency for specific locality based marketing pushes
- Inform you of upcoming courses or event at AEW
Please contact the Information Governance Team at
You can contact our Data Protection Officer, Anna Zollino-Biscotti, at
Information Governance Team
City of Wolverhampton Council
Civic Square
St Peter’s Square
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SH