WCG (college)
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WCG (formerly Warwickshire College Group and Warwickshire College) is the managing body that administers several colleges of further education in the English West Midlands, namely in the counties of Warwickshire and Worcestershire. Its most recent acquisition concerned its August 2016 merger with South Worcestershire College of which the two campuses then reverted to their historical names of Evesham College in Evesham and Malvern Hills College in Great Malvern.[2] The merger makes it the largest group of further and adult education institutions in the country and one of the five colleges in the United Kingdom empowered by the Privy Council with the authority to award Foundation Degrees[3] [4] [5]
WCG | |
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Address | |
Warwick New Road Leamington Spa , Warwickshire , CV32 5JE England | |
Coordinates | 52°17′17″N 1°32′56″W |
Information | |
Type | General Further Education College |
Established | 1996 |
Department for Education URN | 130835 Tables |
Ofsted | Reports |
Gender | Mixed |
Age | 14 to 99 |
Enrolment | approx. 15,000 students (full and part-time)[1] |
Website | wcg |
As of June 2018 the group manages seven colleges with a faculty of around 1,500 staff for approximately 15,000 students. The group offers more than 1,000 courses over 20 areas of discipline with an A-Level pass rate of 98%.[6]