The Sixth Form College, Solihull is a further education college

College

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 for students aged 16 to 19. It is situated on the outskirts of Solihull

Solihull

Solihull is a town in the West Midlands of England with a population of 94,753. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is located 9 miles southeast of Birmingham city centre...

, West Midlands

West Midlands (county)

The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...

 and draws students from across Solihull

Solihull

Solihull is a town in the West Midlands of England with a population of 94,753. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is located 9 miles southeast of Birmingham city centre...

 and Birmingham

Birmingham

Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...

. Founded in 1974, the college consists of several large buildings on a single site.

The college offers 52 different subjects at A-Level, as well as a small selection of vocational courses and more recently, the International Baccalaureate and the IT Diploma. More than 850 students progress to university

University

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 each year, including several to Oxbridge

Oxbridge

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http://www.solihullsfc.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=279&Itemid=66. In the last 5 years, 67 students have progressed to Oxford

University of Oxford

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 and Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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.

Alumni

• Shefali Chowdhury
  Shefali Chowdhury
  Shefali Chowdhury is a British actress best known for playing the role of Parvati Patil in the Harry Potter film series.-Life and career:Chowdhury was born in Denbigh, Wales and moved to Birmingham when she was six...
  
  , actress
• Lucy Davis
  Lucy Davis
  Lucy Clare Davis is an English actress. She is best known for playing the character Dawn Tinsley in the BBC comedy The Office and as Dianne in the horror-comedy movie Shaun of the Dead.-Career:...
  
  , actress
• Elizabeth Bower
  Elizabeth Bower
  Elizabeth Bower , is an English actress, best known for starring as Dr Melody Bell in Doctors from 2007 to 2009.-Biography:...
  
  , actress
• Simon Fowler
  Simon Fowler
  Simon Fowler is the lead vocalist and acoustic guitarist in Ocean Colour Scene.-The Fanatics:Simon Fowler commenced his music career as the lead singer and songwriter for Birmingham band The Fanatics, which consisted of Simon Fowler , Damon Minchella , Paul Wilkes and Caroline Bullock...
  
  , lead singer of rock group Ocean Colour Scene
  Ocean Colour Scene
  Ocean Colour Scene are an English Britpop band formed in Moseley, Birmingham in 1989. They have had five Top 10 albums and six Top 10 singles to date.-Early days :...
  
  
• Gary Knight
  Gary Knight
  Gary Knight was born in 1964 in Oakham, England and was raised in the village of Knowle in the West Midlands. He attended Arden School and Solihull Sixth Form College. He left higher education mid way through his first year and started to travel in Europe and the Middle East...
  
  , war photographer
• Justin King
  Justin King (businessman)
  Justin Matthew King, CBE is a British businessman, who is the CEO of J Sainsbury plc, parent company of the supermarket chain Sainsbury's.King was previously Director of Food at Marks and Spencer and has held senior positions at Asda...
  
  , CEO of Sainsburys
• Anna Brewster
  Anna Brewster
  -Acting career:Anna has appeared in the films Anita and Me, Mrs Henderson Presents, Hippie Hippie Shake with Sienna Miller and Cillian Murphy and How to Lose Friends & Alienate People...
  
  , model and actor from The Tudors

External links

• Official website
• Report on the college from OFSTED
  Ofsted
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