Facts and Figures

Below are some key facts and figures about Gateshead College:

• Rated ‘outstanding' by Ofsted (Jan 2009) with grade ones across all six areas of inspection. This result places Gateshead College in the top UK colleges.
  
• Governance and Financial Management graded as outstanding by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) in January 2009
  
• Gateshead College operates from four world class campuses.
  
• The College is the top performing provider of apprenticeships and Train to Gain in the North East.
  
• No 1 for sport in the region, the College has seven specialist sport academies in men and women's football, netball, basketball, golf, athletics and rugby, FA qualified football coaches and professional standard sport facilities.
  
• The college holds a Beacon Award from the Rugby Football Union, one of only three colleges in the UK.
  
• Eight of male footballers, three women footballers and four rugby players now all play professionally.
  
• Gateshead College is the first college in the country to win the English College's Football Association Northern Premier League for seven consecutive years, and is the only college in the country to send both a male and female team to the final this year (2009).
  
• Gateshead College is the preferred training provider for Nissan and delivers the Ford Masters Programme.
  
• The college is the North East lead provider for the National Skills Academy Manufacturing.
  
• Gateshead College was awarded a national Beacon Award for Excellence in Staff Development.
  
• Gateshead College is a Centre of Excellence for Teacher Training in partnership with Sunderland University.
  
• The college has strategic partnerships with leading creative organisations, including The Sage Gateshead and Dance City.
  
• Gateshead College is a founder college for the National Skills Academy for Creative Arts.
  
• Gateshead College is one of the largest businesses in the borough with an annual turnover of £27.5million, employing 700 members of staff and educating over 13,000 students per year.