14-16 Courses

Please note that you cannot apply for these courses directly. Parents/Carers and students under 16 must contact their school in the first instance.

Redbridge College is a warm and friendly college and is a great place to study and train for the career of your choice. We have high expectations of students and offer an excellent range of courses in a wide variety of subjects. Our students progress on to work, university or further study here at the College. We are flexible and aim to create tailor-made programmes to meet the needs of individuals. Stringent interview processes are in place to ensure that KS4 learners are appropriately placed.

For school links courses you will study your chosen college course alongside your GCSEs in school for two years. We constantly maintain close links with your school or referring agency and parents/carers. As part of your programme your parents/carers will receive reports from our vocational tutors on your attendance and progress via your school or referring agency.

Part-time courses give you the opportunity to study vocational courses in college as well as completing your GCSEs in school. You can also study vocational courses in college full-time, with the agreement of your school.

Students are to remain on their school roll until the end of year 11.

To gain more information about the opportunities on offer to you at college, speak to either your Head of Year, Student Support Teacher or your Connexions Advisor.

In addition to great teaching we can also offer you fantastic facilities including a large sports hall, gym, state-of-the-art music technology studios, refurbished refectory, up-to-the-minute technology suites and Learning Resource Centre, Evolution Hair and Beauty Salons, Rouge Restaurant - the list goes on!

14-16 Prospectus

You can get a copy of our 14-16 prospectus from our prospectus download page by clicking here.

You can either right click and choose 'save as' to view offline later or left click and view in your browser now. This is in PDF format and requires the freely available Adobe Acrobat Reader to be able to view it.

If you have any problems downloading or viewing these documents you can call our course hotline on 020 8548 7431.

What our students say:

"The work which I was given in school was often quite easy, so when I finished it I would get bored and distracted and start to mess around. This got me permanently excluded from school when I was 13, and I was out of education for around five months. Then in September of that year, I was offered a place on Redbridge College’s BTEC Introductory Diploma in IT.

My disruptive behaviour stopped at college because the work was more of a challenge for me, so I was always kept occupied. If I finished something, I was always given something else to work on. After completing the Introductory Diploma, my tutors agreed that I could skip the First Diploma and go straight onto the National Certificate in IT.

In the first year I achieved three merits, three distinctions, a Jack Petchey Award and a nomination for the Student of the Year. At the end of the course I achieved a Double Distinction and was offered a place at Nottingham Trent University to study a BSc in Computer Science.

Before I started at Redbridge College, I had never thought about going to university, and now I am doing a degree course aged just 17 years old. If I hadn’t gone to college I would probably still be doing a low paid, part-time job.

I'm really enjoying doing the degree, and almost everything that I studied throughout my time at Redbridge College has been very useful for me here.

Now I hope to work in the software engineering industry, preferable doing application programming."

Matthew Shine, BTEC Introductory Diploma in IT

What our students say:

"Welcome to Redbridge College! I know it looks big and scary now but you’ll soon grow to love it. I go to school three days a week and college two days.

When I first came to college I was scared and thought I would struggle with everything from learning on the course to making new friends - I couldn’t have been more wrong! Even going from a school environment to a college one wasn’t as difficult as I thought, because everyone is so supportive and straight away I loved the freedom and independence that you get at college. The staff here are always happy to listen to you and when I told them I have learning difficulties they gave me all the support I needed.

As for making friends, I have found that if you just be yourself, you will get on with people really well. As you work with different people in the classroom you get to know them a bit more too. My friends and I usually go to the canteen for breakfast and lunch (I always start the day with a coffee and tuna Panini!) and the food there is really nice. You also meet new people there and that’s how your friendship groups gradually get bigger and bigger.

The college holds some fun events and I was involved in a sponsored walk for Red Nose Day last year, which was good fun, and there’s always things like talent shows and hairdressing shows going on.

Coming to Redbridge College has given me more than just confidence and new friends; I have been given amazing opportunities like meeting Sir Alan Sugar and Olympic gold medallist Tessa Sanderson.

When I won the Student of the Year prize in June 2009, I felt like I was in a dream. I used to let things like my learning difficulties hold me back but getting that award made me realise that it didn’t have to be that way. All I do is try my best and that’s enough.

So choose your course from this website, try your best and that’s all you need to worry about. Who knows: maybe you’ll be the next Student of the Year?"

Maisie Golding, Young Apprenticeship in Hairdressing