Those mentioned so far are illusory. There is no educational rationale and only a dubious financial rationale. Consultation was dodgy. Closer to Rutland college is Stamford college, which would like to merge with it. There is a much greater cross-over of people between those two colleges.
People go from the little county of Rutland towards Lincolnshire.
They look to Lincolnshire, never to Northamptonshire. A link will be made with an educational institution that has no natural partnership with Rutland college in Oakham. That is bad enough in itself. What is even worse and sticks in my throat is that the consultation process was a sham. One need only examine the timing to realise that it could not work well.