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, apprentices and qualifications

• Altogether, approximately 14,500 students and apprentices studied at the college during the last academic year 2023/24.
• Of those learners, 12,500 were students; around 5,500 of whom were aged 16 to 18 and 7,000 were adults aged 19-plus.
• Approximately, 1,890 apprentices trained with the college during 2023/24.
• Of those apprentices, around 780 were aged 16 to 18 and 1,110 were adults.
• Approximately 474 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.

Employers

• We worked with around 1,538 employers during 2023/24 who provided apprenticeship delivery and experience of work, industry placements or other work-related activity to students.
• Our Apprenticeship+ service supports employers to get the skills they need and enables apprentices to become highly employable.
• Around 872 employers are involved in our apprenticeship programmes.

Staff

• The college has approximately 1,300 staff.