Southwark College


Southwark College is a further education college located in the London Borough of Southwark. The college at one time had seven sites. It now boasts a £41m state-of-the-art building on The Cut, opposite Southwark Tube Station.
In 2017, along with Lewisham College it was placed in the top ten percent of FE Colleges ] at 89%. In 2018 this rose to 90%.
The college offers GCSE, ESOL, Access, City & Guilds and BTEC courses in many subjects. It also offers Higher Education courses including an MBA.
In 2006 the college had a total of 10093 students enrolled. 2515 of the total students enrolled at the college were on a full-time program and 7578 students were enrolled onto a part-time program. The college also had 200 14- to 16-year-old students enrolled. 62% of the students were female and 38% were male.
Lewisham College and Southwark College merged in 2012, having previously existed as separate institutions. Between 2013 and 2014 the college was branded as LeSoCo, before this was dropped. It was then known as Lewisham Southwark College between 2014 and 2018, becoming part of Newcastle College Group in 2017.
In October 2018 it was announced by Newcastle College Group that Lewisham Southwark College would return to being branded as two separate institutions: Lewisham College and Southwark College.

Notable alumni