Fareham College
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| Established | 1982 |
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| Principal | Nigel Duncan |
| Vice-Principal | Peter Marsh |
| Location |
Bishopsfield Road Fareham Hampshire PO14 1NH England  Coordinates: 50°51′03″N 1°11′57″W / 50.8507°N 1.1991°W |
| Local authority | South East England LSC (although in Hampshire LEA) |
| DfE number | ???/8006 |
| DfE URN | 130693 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Staff | 140 |
| Students | 1800 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 16 (GCSE Students Studying Vocational Courses 14 - 16)–19+ |
| Website | Fareham College |
Fareham College is a further education college situated on a 22-acre (89,000 m2) campus on the western side of the town of Fareham in Hampshire, England. Directly opposite the college is St Judes Primary School.
Fareham College is situated within ten minutes walk west of the local railway station and a five-minute drive from the local bus station on the A27. The spacious Bishopsfield Road campus is less than five miles from the M27. It is next to St Jude's catholic junior school.
Students who require financial help with their transport costs to College can apply for assistance - which, for those cases approved, represents a firm commitment of support, unlike other Colleges that might offer free transport, but whose small print might indicate that assistance will not be given for every term of study in the year. The college's intake mainly comes from the boroughs of Fareham and Gosport, and the surrounding areas of south-east Hampshire.
Although other Fareham young people study A-levels outside of the town at neighbouring sixth form colleges such as St Vincent, Itchen, Havant or South Downs College, recent data now reveals that student numbers at Fareham College have risen by over 60% over the last five years, reaching an impressive 1,700 16- to 18-year-old Full Time students, with 60% coming from Fareham and surrounding areas and 40% coming from Gosport, to study vocational and traditional academic courses. There are also over 1,300 students aged over 19 at Fareham College who study a mix of classroom and 'work based learning' in very up-to-date facilities on the Bishopsfield Road campus.
Fareham College was formed in 1984 as a merger between an earlier technical college (Fareham Technical College) on the same site and the sixth-form college at the historic Price's School, a boys' grammar school on Park Lane, (before the latter's site was sold to developers) in 1984, and became the sole state provider of tertiary education in Fareham. Price's School became a sixth form college in 1976. Fareham Grammar School for Girls was on Birdwood Grove, and became Cams Hill School.
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