Wakefield College has provided education and training in the Wakefield District since 1868, and today is home to some 10,000 part-time and 3,000 full-time students of all ages and abilities. A broad range of courses is offered at the College, from pre-entry level through to higher education and professional qualifications. Our Services to Business provides high quality customised training to businesses, and our well respected Centres of Vocational Excellence in Management and Information Communication Technology are innovative and successful.

The College plays a leading role in regional regeneration and a new state of the art learning facility - the skillsXchange - is now open at Glasshoughton, offering skills for employability locally and regionally. The planned redevelopment of the Wakefield Campus will bring a modern, vibrant learning environment into the heart of the City for Sixth Form and Higher Education students.

In January 2007, Ofsted Inspectors described the College as a place where learners enjoy their work, make good progress and develop their confidence and skills and where students with particular needs are well supported by a wide range of specialist skills and equipment.

The College has also emerged top of the West Yorkshire Schools and Colleges’ league table of Achievement and Attainment for the third year in succession, reflecting the achievement in 2006 of its best ever A level results, which were described by the Minister of Further and Higher Education Bill Rammell as ‘phenomenal’.