Bolton Sixth Form College

Coordinates: 53°36′00″N 2°27′18″W / 53.600°N 2.455°W / 53.600; -2.455

Bolton Sixth Form College

Established	1982
Administrative staff	32
Students	1700
Location	Bolton, England, UK
Website	www.bolton-sfc.ac.uk

Bolton Sixth Form College is a further education college for students aged 16 and higher and is located in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.

Overview

Bolton Sixth Form College is the largest further education college in the Metropolitan Borough of Bolton. The college has around 1700 full-time students. In 2007 the college won the AOC Beacon Award for the Promotion of Racial Equality. Since 2008, this award has been disputed. ^[1]

History

These college is a result of a merger Bolton North and Bolton South Colleges in the late 1990s to form a single Sixth Form College. Today the college is located on Deane Road in Bolton,^[2] and this campus opened in September 2010 and replaced the former North campus which was situated on Smithills Dean Road. The college also previously had a second campus located on Queen Street in Farnworth. This campus opened in July 2008 and replaced the former South campus on Lever Edge Lane in Daubhill. However the college closed its Farnworth Campus in September 2014.^[3]

Notable Alumni

Sajid Mahmood, Lancashire and England cricketer
Clive Myrie, BBC newsreader

References

↑ "College gets top marks in report". The Bolton News. 28 November 2007. Retrieved 2008-01-29.
↑ How To Find Us. Bolton Sixth Form College. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
↑ "BBC News - Bolton Sixth Form College to close its Farnworth Campus". Bbc.co.uk. 2014-03-05. Retrieved 2014-04-28.

Universities and colleges in North West England

Universities	Bolton BPP Central Lancashire Chester Cumbria Edge Hill Lancaster Law Liverpool Liverpool Hope Liverpool John Moores Manchester Manchester Metropolitan Salford

University colleges	Royal Northern College of Music

Further Education colleges	Accrington & Rossendale Blackburn Blackpool & The Fylde Bolton Burnley Bury Carlisle Co-operative Furness Hopwood Hall Hugh Baird Kendal Knowsley Lakes Lancaster & Morecambe Liverpool Macclesfield Manchester Mid Cheshire Myerscough Nelson & Colne Oldham Preston's Reaseheath Riverside Runshaw St Helens Salford South Cheshire Southport Stockport Tameside Trafford Warrington West Cheshire West Lancashire Wigan & Leigh Wirral Metropolitan

Sixth form colleges	Aquinas Ashton Barrow-in-Furness Birkenhead Blackpool Bolton Bolton Wanderers Cardinal Newman Carmel Cheadle & Marple Connell Holy Cross Hyde Clarendon King George V Loreto Oldham Priestley Rainford Rochdale Sir John Deane's St John Rigby St Mary's South Sefton Thomas Whitham Winstanley Xaverian

Schools in Bolton

Secondary schools	Bolton Muslim Girls' School Bolton St Catherine's Academy Canon Slade School Essa Academy Harper Green School Kearsley Academy Ladybridge High School Little Lever School Mount St Joseph School Rivington and Blackrod High School St James's CE High School St Joseph's RC High School Sharples School Smithills School Thornleigh Salesian College Turton School UTC Bolton Westhoughton High School

Independent schools	Bolton School Darul Uloom Bolton

FE & sixth form colleges	Bolton College Bolton Sixth Form College Bolton Wanderers Free School

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