Ashton Sixth Form College
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Ashton-under-Lyne Sixth Form College is a sixth form college
located in Ashton-under-Lyne
in Greater Manchester
, England.
area. Courses offered by the college include A-levels, AGCE
s and Diplomas
.
It is situated near Mossley Road (A670) near the junction with Queen's Road (B6194) near Tameside General Hospital
.
Sixth form college
A sixth form college is an educational institution in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Belize, Hong Kong or Malta where students aged 16 to 18 typically study for advanced school-level qualifications, such as A-levels, or school-level qualifications such as GCSEs. In Singapore and India, this is...
located in Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne
Ashton-under-Lyne is a market town in the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, Greater Manchester, England. Historically a part of Lancashire, it lies on the north bank of the River Tame, on undulating land at the foothills of the Pennines...
in Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...
, England.
Admissions
The college mostly accepts students graduating from the two secondary schools in Ashton-under-Lyne, as well as from the larger TamesideTameside
The Metropolitan Borough of Tameside is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after the River Tame which flows through the borough and spans the towns of Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley and Stalybridge. Its western...
area. Courses offered by the college include A-levels, AGCE
AGCE
Advanced General Certificate of Education is a vocational qualification that replaced the AVCE in September 2005. The modular structure of each course available is also different from that of the AVCE...
s and Diplomas
14–19 Diploma
The Diploma is a composite qualification in England launched in September 2008. Its development was announced in the 14–19 Education and Skills White Paper of March 2005...
.
It is situated near Mossley Road (A670) near the junction with Queen's Road (B6194) near Tameside General Hospital
Tameside General Hospital
Tameside General Hospital is an National Health Service hospital situated in Ashton-under-Lyne. Run by Tameside Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, it serves the surrounding area of Tameside in Greater Manchester, and the town of Glossop in Derbyshire...
.
History
The building opened in 1928 as the co-educational Ashton-under-Lyne Grammar School. It had around 600 boys and girls in the 1960s, and 800 in the early 1970s, and 950 by the time it closed with 250 in the sixth form. It was run by Lancashire Education Committee until 1974, then Tameside Metropolitan Borough.Sixth form college
It became a sixth form college in 1980 when most schools in Tameside became 11–16 schools.Academic performance
There are only four places to take A-levels in Tameside: two further education colleges and two 11–18 schools. The college has achieved A-level results that have been slightly above the national average, but the college currently ranks third in the mini-league table of institutions offering A-level courses in Tameside.Ashton-under-Lyne Grammar School
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