The Sixth Form College Farnborough

Ofsted College Inspection 2007

Name of college: The Sixth Form College, Farnborough

Type of college: Sixth Form College

Principal: Dr John Guy

Address of college: Prospect Avenue, Farnborough, Hampshire GU14 8JX

Telephone number: 01252 688200

Fax number: 01252 688206
 
Chair of Governors: Mr William Bagnall

Unique reference number: 108394

Name of Lead Inspector: Janet Mercer HMI                  

Date of inspection: 1st March 2007 

The Sixth Form College Farnborough serves primarily the needs of full-time 16- 19 year old students in the travel to study area centred on Farnborough. The college has sought to retain and build upon its reputation as a centre of sixth form studies and has had the same single corporate objective since 1996: improving students’ achievements.

In July 2002, the college was named as one of the first four Beacon colleges in the country. The college has won three annual Beacon awards in recent years: for its outstanding work in the teaching of Physics in 2003, for Chemistry in 2001 and for Mathematics in 1999.

Numbers of full-time students have increased from 1,180 in 1992 to 2,908 in 2006. Almost all students are 16 to 19 year olds. The college offers courses in eleven of the fifteen subject sector areas, with the largest provision being in science and maths, arts and media and languages and culture.

The local area has high levels of employment with a significant proportion of hi-tech industry related to the aerospace and defence industries. A high proportion of 16 year olds in the area continue in education. The proportion of students from minority ethnic groups in the college is 7%, which is higher than in the local area. 

You can read the full report on the Ofsted website.