Bridgwater and Taunton College
in Bridgwater, United KingdomCategory: Attraction
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Bridgwater and Taunton College is a further education college based in Bridgwater, Somerset, England. It educates approximately 1500 students between the ages of 16-18 in academic and vocational programmes in addition to several thousand part-time or mature students. It also has campuses in Cannington and Yeovil. The college was founded in 1973, although the history of its predecessor institutions dates to 1891.
In 2017 the college was told by Ofsted to stop referring to itself as outstanding, due to a drop in performance.The college offers courses from entry level through higher education. In addition to A-Levels and BTEC qualifications, the college offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme. The college has links with the University of Plymouth by way of the University of Plymouth Colleges network, Bournemouth University, Oxford Brookes University and is part of the Wessex Partnership, in association with Bath Spa University. After a merger with Cannington College in September 2004, the college expanded its curriculum of full-time and part-time courses for school leavers, adults, university level students, the business community and students from overseas.
In 2012 the college became the sponsor of Bridgwater College AcademyIn 2016 Bridgwater College merged with Somerset College of Arts and TechnologyThe College's Paignton centre closed in 2017.
