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The Academy is divided into the two main areas of Early Years and Social and Health Care. Each area offers a wide range of learning programmes which collectively cover counselling, early years care and education, health care, playwork, social care and education.

The majority of our lecturers come with backgrounds as care professionals in occupations such as child minding, counselling, health visiting, midwifery, nursery education, nursing, playwork, primary school teaching and social work.

We understand the needs of adult learners as well as those of school leavers. Practical 'hands-on' experience in care is an important component of our learning programmes. We are committed to relating theory to practice, so that what you learn in college is relevant to the real world of caring for people.

We're proud of the fact that we are a vocational centre for learning as well as an academic one with links to Bournemouth and Luton Universities. We also have close links with local colleagues in the caring professions.

We welcome applications from people with a wide range of educational backgrounds and make every effort to treat all our learners with courtesy and consideration. We take care to ensure that you will enter a learning programme that is right for you, thus maximising your chance of success.

We also offer progression routes through different levels of study and are very pleased that many of our learners return to us to develop their qualifications. Many of our learners also achieve the qualifications to enable them to enter professional training in occupations such as midwifery, nursing, social work and early years/primary teaching.

We hope you find our web site useful, but if you cannot find the information you are looking for please do not hesitate to contact The College helpline on 01202 205205 or The Academy for Health & Social Care 01202 205908.