East Devon College

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East Devon College (sometimes shortened to EDC) is a further education college situated in the Devon market town of Tiverton. The college operates on four sites; the main campus being located in Tiverton, with three other sites being located in Honiton, Exmouth, and an additional Tiverton centre. In 2005/06 the college enrolled 3,144 learners, of which 877 were full-time. Around 80% of those learners were aged between sixteen and eighteen years of age. The college's motto is "Maximising your potential", and their aim is "to develop skills, knowledge and confidence for all".

Ofsted visit and inspect the college once or twice every year, and do a full college inspection approximately every four years or so. The latest inspection was on October 2, 2007, and showed that the college was making "insufficient progress", in areas such as achievements and standards, quality of provision, and leadership and management.^[1]

In July of 2007 it was announced that East Devon was seeking a merger partner following an Ofsted report that judged leadership at the college inadequate. Of the ten learning institutions that showed interest, five were short-listed to give a presentation to the board of governors who, after a rigorous selection process, selected Barnstaple-based establishment North Devon College as the merger partner, making it the biggest college in Devon.^[2]^[3]

1 Courses
- 1.1 AS/A2 level
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Courses

EDC offers a relatively average range of subjects to choose from, and arguably focuses a lot of its attention on the community side of the college, and remaining small and "friendly". The following courses are what are currently on offer to students: