The College has strong links with Higher Education, with the overwhelming number of students progressing to their first choice University courses. We have an impressive record of entry to the most challenging degree programmes, with a significant number of students in recent years progressing to leading Universities (including Oxford and Cambridge) to study a wide range of degree courses.

Equally the College has a strong record for direct entry into employment with training, including Advanced Modern Apprenticeships and combined employment and Higher Education opportunities.

Following our usual trend, the destinations of students who left the College in 2010 were as follows:

The percentage of students going into Higher Education should be 84%, those going into employment should be 6% and those taking a gap year before going into Higher Education should be 10%.

Here is a selection of our just some of the destinations of our students in 2010:

• Accounting and Finance at Birmingham University
• Art Foundation at various colleges
• Business Management and Marketing at Nottingham Trent University
• English at Sheffield Hallam University
• Mechanical Engineering at University of Nottingham
• History at University of Bath
• Law at University of Leeds
• Molecular Biology at University of Dundee
• Medicine at University College London
• Mathematics at University of Cambridge
• Physiotherapy at Nottingham Trent University
• Primary Education at Liverpool John Moores University
• German Studies at Manchester University
• Animal Science at Newcastle University
• Criminology and Law at Derby University