City of Sunderland College
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| Type | Further and Higher Education College |
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| Principal | Ms Ellen Thinnesen |
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Durham Road (A690) City of Sunderland Tyne and Wear SR3 4AH England Coordinates: 54°53′34″N 1°24′31″W / 54.89276°N 1.40852°W |
| Local authority | Sunderland |
| DfE URN | 131347 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Ages | 16+ |
| Website | www |
Sunderland College, is a further education, higher education college based in Sunderland, North East England. The enrolment includes around 6,300 part-time learners and approximately 4,800 full-time students. A report following a January 2010 Ofsted inspection awarded the school a Grade 2 (good) that included a Grade 1 (outstanding) on 3 inspection criteria. The college is a member of the Collab Group of high performing schools.
The college is a multi-centre establishment, with four campuses throughout North East England, these are Bede Campus, Hylton Campus, Washington Campus and St. Peter's Campus, which is located on the St Peter's campus of the University of Sunderland.
Statistically, Sunderland College has held the top position of colleges and sixth forms in Sunderland - achieving the best grades locally in comparison with St. Aidan's RC, St. Anthony's RC and St. Robert's of Newminster, in recent years.
Bede Campus
The college's Bede Campus, which is situated close to Sunderland City Centre on Durham Road (A690, is in the buildings of the former Bede School which began as a coeducational comprehensive in September 1967. The school, known briefly as Bede School closed in 1991, and was itself a combination of the Bede Collegiate Grammar School for Boys and Bede Grammar School for Girls, run by the County Borough of Sunderland Education Committee. The girls' school had around 500 girls in the 1950s, and by the 1960s the boys' school had 900 boys. Both of the original schools were referred to, locally, as Bede School or 'The Bede'.
In more recent years, after the closure of the Shiney Row campus in August 2014 Bede Campus is now the specialist centre for the sports and visual and performing arts courses. The campus's ethos is strong on creativity, encouraging students to pursue their talents within the use of two brand new state of the art buildings which open in September 2014.
The campus is equipped with language and science labs and large-scale computer sites and provides facilities to assist students with their studies, careers or with university progression.
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