College of West Anglia
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King's Lynn Technical School Norfolk College of Arts and Technology Cambridgeshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture Isle College |
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| Motto | Changing lives through learning |
| Established | 1894 |
| Principal | David Pomfret |
| Students | 10,000 |
| Location | King's Lynn in Norfolk, Wisbech and Cambridge in Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom |
| Website | cwa.ac.uk |
The College of West Anglia (often abbreviated to CWA) is a three-campus college of further education in Norfolk and Cambridgeshire, England. The college has three campuses, located in King's Lynn, Wisbech and a landbased provision in Cambridge, with over 10,000 students and 800 staff.
Founded in 1894 as the King's Lynn Technical School in the port town of King's Lynn, Norfolk, it merged with the Cambridgeshire College of Agriculture and Horticulture to form the College of West Anglia in 1998. The college then merged with the Isle College in Wisbech in 2006, retaining the College of West Anglia name.
The College of West Anglia educates over 10,000 full-time and part-time students each academic year, across a wide range of vocational and academic fields. In addition to full-time and part-time courses, the college also offers bespoke training for local businesses, apprenticeships and higher education courses, run in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University. The college has around 800 members of staff working across the three main campuses, and its other premises.
Under the previous Ofsted inspection criteria, the college was rated outstanding (grade 1) in 2007-2008. The most recent Ofsted inspection in 2013 ranks it as good (grade 2), making it one of the best performing colleges in the country under the new criteria.
In 2009, building work commenced on the existing sites in King's Lynn, Wisbech and Cambridge, at a cost of over £35million. The work includes two new technology centres at King's Lynn and Wisbech, both of which opened in 2013, a renovation of the tower block at King's Lynn and redevelopment at the Cambridge campus, including a bespoke higher education area.
In 2012, the college moved its sport provision to Lynnsport and Leisure Centre, in collaboration with King's Lynn and West Norfolk borough council. In association with Freebridge Community Housing and the Benjamin Foundation, the college's foundation studies is provision is located at separate premises in King's Lynn. The college received a £1.75m grant from the government in 2012 to develop a creative arts centre specialising in TV, film and performing arts at the King's Lynn campus.
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