Welcome from our Chief Executive and Principal, Angela Foulkes CBE

We are ambitious for our college, our students and the city, and are proud to play a key role in the local economy transforming lives through learning and supporting employers.

At The Sheffield College, we support thousands of young people and adults every year, inspiring them to go further. We work with hundreds of employers providing skills solutions. Being inclusive and putting our students first irrespective of their background, qualifications and career ambitions is at the heart of everything we do.

Our Strategy Plan for 2025–2030 sets out our priorities across learning, our people, sustainability and partnerships. It reinforces our commitment to being a great place to learn and work, and to being a responsible, sustainable organisation and a trusted partner.

Since launching our previous strategy in 2021, we have made strong progress on our ‘good to great’ journey. Ofsted has recognised the college as ‘good’, highlighting the quality of our teaching and learning and our contribution to meeting regional skills needs. We are also proud to have been recognised as one of the National Centre for Diversity’s Top 100 Inclusive UK Employers.

Strong partnerships across the city are central to our success, enabling innovative developments such as those at Peaks Campus and the Advanced Technology Centre.

We want to go faster in achieving our ambitions for our students and staff as we continue to champion not only our college but the positive impact of the further education sector and its vital role.

We will continue to lobby for our college and the future of education skills and training in our city and region.

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.