Our mission is transforming lives through learning. Our vision for 2025 is to be leaders in technical and academic education, creating exceptional opportunities for the communities that we serve to realise their aspirations.

Key facts and figures

Our students get the qualifications and skills they need to go further in employment, careers, Apprenticeships, further training and university level courses.

Students and qualifications

• Altogether, around 13,000 students and apprentices studied at the college during the last academic year 2022/23.
• Of those learners, 11,000 were students comprising 5,000 aged 16 to 18 and 6,000 adults.
• More than 5,000 students were aged 16 to 18 and more than 7,000 students were adults.
• Approximately, 1,890 apprentices trained with the college during 2022/23.
• Of those apprentices, around 760 were aged 16 to 18 and 1,130 were adults.
• Approximately 480 externally awarded qualifications were offered by the college.
• The college offers apprenticeship programmes as well as vocational diplomas, T Levels, A Levels, access to higher education courses, higher technical qualifications and foundation and honours degrees.

Staff

• The college has approximately 1,300 staff.