New College Leicester (formed in 1999/2000 in a merger between New Parks Community College,

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, and Wycliffe Community College) is a

coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...

foundation Foundation may refer to: * Foundation (nonprofit), a type of charitable organization ** Foundation (United States law), a type of charitable organization in the U.S. ** Private foundation, a charitable organization that, while serving a good cause ...

secondary school and

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, located in the

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area of Leicester in the English county of Leicestershire. New College Leicester became a foundation school in June 2010. As a foundation school it is administered by a trust which includes

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and the

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. The school offers

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, BTECs and

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qualifications as programmes of study for pupils; those in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A Levels and further BTECs.

References

External links

New College Leicester official website
Secondary schools in Leicester Foundation schools in Leicester {{Leicestershire-school-stub