Southwark College

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Southwark College
Southwark College Building.jpg
Address
25, The Cut, London

London
,
SE1 8LF

England
Information
TypeFurther education college
Established1990 – Southwark College
2012 – constituent college of Lewisham Southwark College
2017 – constituent college of Newcastle College Group
Local authorityLondon Borough of Southwark
Department for Education URN130417 Tables
OfstedReports
Age14+
Websitewww.southwark.ac.uk

Southwark College is a further education college located in the London Borough of Southwark. The college at one time had seven sites; it is now based at a building on The Cut, opposite Southwark tube station. The college has been part of Newcastle College Group since 2017.

Courses[]

The college offers GCSE, ESOL, Access, City & Guilds and BTEC courses in many subjects. It also offers Higher Education courses including an MBA.

History[]

The college was formed in the early 1990s by a merger between a sixth form college, a further education college, and the local adult education centre. Its main site for a long time was a purpose-built 1960s centre near London Waterloo station.[1]

In 2006 the college had a total of 10,093 students enrolled. 2515 of the total students enrolled at the college were on a full-time program and 7578 students were enrolled onto a part-time program. The college also had 200 14- to 16-year-old students enrolled. 62% of the students were female and 38% were male.[2]

Southwark College merged with Lewisham College in 2012, having previously existed as separate institutions.[3] Between 2013 and 2014 the college was branded as LeSoCo, before this was dropped.[4] It was then known as Lewisham Southwark College between 2014 and 2018, becoming part of Newcastle College Group in 2017.[5] In October 2018 it was announced by Newcastle College Group (NCG) that Lewisham Southwark College would return to being two separate institutions: Lewisham College and Southwark College.[6]

Honours[]

In 2017 Southwark College (along with Lewisham College) was placed in the top ten percent of FE Colleges (based on the national achievement rate tables) at 89%. In 2018 this rose to 90%.

Notable alumni[]

References[]

  1. ^ https://dera.ioe.ac.uk/3337/2/southwark_cyc2.pdf[bare URL]
  2. ^ "Southwark College Annual Review 2006" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 14 July 2007.
  3. ^ team, London SE1 website. "Southwark College takeover by Lewisham College takes effect". London SE1. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  4. ^ Banks, Tom (1 October 2014). "LeSoCo identity dropped by Lewisham Southwark College". Design Week. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  5. ^ "NCG Welcomes Lewisham Southwark College into the Group | News". NCG. 1 August 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  6. ^ "NCG Announces Changes to Lewisham Southwark College". NCG. 24 September 2018. Retrieved 19 January 2019.

External links[]

Coordinates: 51°30′12″N 0°06′21″W / 51.5033°N 0.1058°W / 51.5033; -0.1058


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