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Romford IT Learning Centre was founded nearly five years ago. Since then it has grown in student popularity and success into the thriving and team-spirited organisation that it is today.
A frequent question asked by many is what it is that makes Romford Centre a field leader in modern IT learning?
Romford has widened participation, and offers many and diverse learning opportunities in the local community that it serves. This eliminates so-called barriers to learning potential, which in turn provides real social inclusion.
The centre's primary aim and objective is to provide individuals across a broad spectrum of life with basic literacy, numeracy and of course IT skills. In so doing it engages and encourages a constant flow of new students into learning.
Many, many learners at Romford recognise their potential at a very early stage of their learning, and often comment on wishing they had embarked on their courses much sooner than they had.
This response is considered the result of the warm and extremely flexible organisation that everyone is so very proud of at Romford.
Our centre
The average age of students at Romford is 45 and one student who has attended
since the college opened will be 100 years young this year!
Romford is one of Havering College's five community IT Centres and courses are offered to students at zero cost.
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 The centres are open 54 hours a week and for 48 weeks of the year 
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The centres are open 54 hours a week and for a whole 48 weeks of the year. They offer continuous enrolment, a facility that lies at the very heart of the centres' attractiveness to prospective learners.
This means that they can tailor their chosen course to suit their availability to attend, and not have to consider the traditional and perhaps somewhat restrictive 'term time' method of enrolment.
The centres also offer 'Getting Started Taster' sessions. These are regularly reviewed and
timetabled in a way which is entirely in keeping with the centres' policy of applying maximum
consideration to the time availability of the learners it attracts.
Great importance is placed on multi-service partnership at Romford. This accounts for the
college's active involvement in and incorporation of local employment services and disabled organisations in its overall operations.
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