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Loughborough College
Loughborough College is a large general further education college in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It provides both further education (FE) and higher education (HE) courses on a single campus.
The college offers a broad curriculum, including academic A-levels, T-level technical courses, vocational diplomas, apprenticeships, and some degree-level programmes. The college annually enrols over 10,000 students in full-time, part-time and distance-learning courses.
Loughborough College is known for its strong sports-related programmes and close links with Loughborough University, and its students are eligible to join Loughborough Students’ Union as part of their course.
Loughborough College traces its origins to 1909 when Leicestershire County Council established Loughborough Technical Institute to provide local further education facilities. By 1920, it had been renamed Loughborough College and had gained an international reputation for pioneering vocational teaching and qualifications. Under principal Herbert Schofield, the college expanded in the interwar years and laid the foundations of the present campus.
The original institution was divided into separate branches – including a Teacher Training College, an Art College, a College of Technology, and a continuation of the technical institute as a further education college. The Loughborough College of Technology later evolved into Loughborough University (chartered in 1966), while the further education provision continued under Loughborough College.
Following the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, Loughborough College became an independent corporation in 1993, among the first institutions to join the newly incorporated FE sector in England. The college has grown and modernised its facilities while maintaining its original vocational and technical education focus.
In 2012, Loughborough College, in partnership with the National Space Centre, launched the UK’s first full-time post-16 Space Engineering programme – a unique course blending A-levels with an engineering diploma. This innovative programme earned national recognition when the college received a Queen’s Anniversary Prize (Round 15, 2023) for its “world-class space engineering programme”. Today, Loughborough College remains an integral part of the town’s distinguished educational quarter, operating adjacent to Loughborough University.
Loughborough College offers many FE courses for school leavers and adult learners. It has a large sixth-form centre that provides A-levels in subjects from sciences and humanities to art. The college has also been an early adopter of T Levels (the two-year technical programmes introduced in England), with courses in areas like digital production, engineering, business, education, and health.
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Loughborough College
Loughborough College is a large general further education college in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It provides both further education (FE) and higher education (HE) courses on a single campus.
The college offers a broad curriculum, including academic A-levels, T-level technical courses, vocational diplomas, apprenticeships, and some degree-level programmes. The college annually enrols over 10,000 students in full-time, part-time and distance-learning courses.
Loughborough College is known for its strong sports-related programmes and close links with Loughborough University, and its students are eligible to join Loughborough Students’ Union as part of their course.
Loughborough College traces its origins to 1909 when Leicestershire County Council established Loughborough Technical Institute to provide local further education facilities. By 1920, it had been renamed Loughborough College and had gained an international reputation for pioneering vocational teaching and qualifications. Under principal Herbert Schofield, the college expanded in the interwar years and laid the foundations of the present campus.
The original institution was divided into separate branches – including a Teacher Training College, an Art College, a College of Technology, and a continuation of the technical institute as a further education college. The Loughborough College of Technology later evolved into Loughborough University (chartered in 1966), while the further education provision continued under Loughborough College.
Following the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, Loughborough College became an independent corporation in 1993, among the first institutions to join the newly incorporated FE sector in England. The college has grown and modernised its facilities while maintaining its original vocational and technical education focus.
In 2012, Loughborough College, in partnership with the National Space Centre, launched the UK’s first full-time post-16 Space Engineering programme – a unique course blending A-levels with an engineering diploma. This innovative programme earned national recognition when the college received a Queen’s Anniversary Prize (Round 15, 2023) for its “world-class space engineering programme”. Today, Loughborough College remains an integral part of the town’s distinguished educational quarter, operating adjacent to Loughborough University.
Loughborough College offers many FE courses for school leavers and adult learners. It has a large sixth-form centre that provides A-levels in subjects from sciences and humanities to art. The college has also been an early adopter of T Levels (the two-year technical programmes introduced in England), with courses in areas like digital production, engineering, business, education, and health.
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