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Further Education Colleges
 
There are four colleges of further education funded by the Black Country Learning and Skills Council in Dudley Borough:
 
  • Dudley College of Technology – a general further education college
 
  • Stourbridge College – a general further education college
 
  • Halesowen College – a tertiary college
 
  • King Edward VI College, Stourbridge – a sixth form college
 
There are also school sixth forms and 141 different work based learning providers that provide work based learning to learners living in Dudley Borough. 43 of these providers account for 90% of Dudley resident learners. Four providers attract around half of Dudley Borough residents; Dudley College, Stourbridge College, Protocol Skills Ltd and VT Plus Training.
 
Dudley College is the largest further education provider in the Black Country with almost 26,000 learners (these are not all Dudley residents). This amounts to about one quarter of all FE learners attending provision in the Black Country.
 
The above information is extracted from the Black Country LSC’s Review of Post-16 Educational Provision in Dudley Borough.