Southwark College is a

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college located in the

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. The college at one time had seven sites; it is now based at a building on The Cut, opposite

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. The college has been part of

Newcastle College Group Newcastle College is a large further education and higher education college in Newcastle upon Tyne, with more than 16,000 students enrolled each year on a variety of full time, part time, and distance learning. It is the largest further education ...

since 2017.

Courses

The college offers

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, ESOL,

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and BTEC courses in many subjects. It also offers

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courses including an MBA.

History

The college was formed in the early 1990s by a merger between a

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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

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. 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

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and 38% were

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. Southwark College merged with

Lewisham College Lewisham College is a further education college in the London Borough of Lewisham, south-east London. It was established in 1990, having previously been known as SELTEC (South East London College of Technology) since the early 1970s, which was run ...

in 2012, having previously existed as separate institutions. Between 2013 and 2014 the college was branded as LeSoCo, before this was dropped. It was then known as Lewisham Southwark College between 2014 and 2018, becoming part of

in 2017. 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.

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

* Edward Downman, Anglican clergyman and

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Clive Efford Clive Stanley Efford (born 10 July 1958) is a British Labour Party politician who has served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eltham since 1997. Early life Efford was born in London and educated at Walworth School and Southwark College. He ...

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MP for

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* Ozwald Boateng, fashion designer *

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, vice chancellor,

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* Prab Panesar, CEO, Universal Exports * Sue Black, OBE, computer scientist

References

External links

Southwark College website
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