College of West Anglia is a
further educationFurther education is a term mainly used in connection with education in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It is post-compulsory education , that is distinct from the education offered in universities...
college with four campuses in
NorfolkNorfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast, including The Wash. The county town is Norwich...
and
CambridgeshireCambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...
. In 2008 the college received an Outstanding rating from Ofsted inspectors.
The college was originally founded in 1894 as the
King's Lynn Technical School . It was renamed
The Norfolk College of Arts and Technology in 1973 and in 1998 was combined with the Cambridgeshire College of Agriculture & Horticulture, which added the two land-based campuses in Wisbech and Cambridge (Milton).
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College of West Anglia is a
further educationFurther education is a term mainly used in connection with education in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It is post-compulsory education , that is distinct from the education offered in universities...
college with four campuses in
NorfolkNorfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast, including The Wash. The county town is Norwich...
and
CambridgeshireCambridgeshire is a county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the northeast, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west...
. In 2008 the college received an Outstanding rating from Ofsted inspectors.
The college was originally founded in 1894 as the
King's Lynn Technical School . It was renamed
The Norfolk College of Arts and Technology in 1973 and in 1998 was combined with the Cambridgeshire College of Agriculture & Horticulture, which added the two land-based campuses in Wisbech and Cambridge (Milton). In April 2006, the College merged with the Isle College in Wisbech to form the enlarged College of West Anglia, with the addition of the Isle Campus in Wisbech.
The college has over 9000 full-time higher education students and 200 part-time students at campuses in:
- King's Lynn
King's Lynn is a town and port in Norfolk, England. The town has been known variously as Bishop's Lynn and Lynn Regis, while it is frequently referred to by locals as simply Lynn, the Celtic word for lake....
, Norfolk
- Isle, Wisbech
Wisbech is a market town and inland port with a population of about 20,000 in the Fenland area of Cambridgeshire. The tidal River Nene runs through the centre of the town and is spanned by two bridges...
, Cambridgeshire
- Cambridge (Milton)
Milton is a village just north of Cambridge separated from the city by the A14. It has a population of approximately 4,300 with 3,200 being on the electoral register. It expanded considerably in the late 1980s when two large housing estates were built between the bypass and the village resulting in...
, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
- Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Plans have been approved to develop a new £80m facility at the King's Lynn campus which will open in 2012.
Although initially approved in principle, the College of West Anglia was among 144 institutions across the country whose funding was withdrawn by the LSC in June 2009.
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