Blackpool and The Fylde College

General information

Blackpool and The Fylde College is one of the UK’s leading Further and Higher Education colleges and training providers. Our reputation for excellence has developed through professionalism and passion for learning, helped by talented staff, outstanding resources and massive commitment to student support.

We have a number of campuses located in the North West of England providing a range of programmes designed to equip people for work. We additionally provide workforce training to businesses both locally and nationally to equip people with the skills required to meet the demands of competitive industries.

We are proud to offer gateways to education for adults and those who have been out of education for a while. Whether you are looking for career progression or just want to up-skill and learn something new, we offer a wide variety of courses, degrees, apprenticeships and traineeships.

We recently became the third general Further Education College in the UK to receive Grade 1 Outstandingacross each of the main areas since a new framework was put into place in September 2012

Accolades:
- We’ve been designated a National Beacon of Excellence by the government
- We've been judged by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) as fully meeting UK standards, with 2 out of the possible 3 additional areas judged as 'commended' and 11 areas of good practice being cited.
We’re an Associate College of Lancaster University – ranked among the top 1% of universities worldwide*
National Training Award winner two years running
- We’re a National Beacon Award winner – our latest win in 2010 was for working with a group of colleges to make more than £200,000 savings through smarter procurement
- We’ve been awarded the government standard for Customer Service Excellence