| Established | 1948 |
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| Type | Further education college |
| Principal | Linda Houtby |
| Chair | Mike Argyle |
| Location | Stonebridge Road Grantham Lincolnshire NG31 9AP England |
| Local authority | East Midlands LSC (although in Lincolnshire) |
| DfE number | ???/8000 |
| DfE URN | 130759 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Gender | Co-educational |
| Ages | 16+ |
| Website | Grantham College |
Grantham College is a British further education and Sixth Form college located in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
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It was known as the Grantham College for Further Education.
In the early 1970s, there were advanced proposals by Kesteven County Council (based in Sleaford) to abolish the eleven-plus selection system in the Grantham area and use Grantham College as the only sixth form in the town. Mary Large, the Chairman of the Kesteven Education Committee, said that more young people preferred to go to college rather than stay in a school sixth form because of the 'more adult atmosphere'.
In 1973, the Education Secretary, Margaret Thatcher, had to approve the plan, which involved converting her former school, KGGS, into a mixed comprehensive. It was not approved.
In April 1974, control of the college passed from Kesteven to Lincolnshire in Lincoln. Later in 1979 it became Grantham College of Further Education. In the early 1990s, control passed to the FEFC, then the East Midlands LSC (based in Leicester). Also in the early 1990s, it became known by the shortened Grantham College as was known as an Associate College of Nottingham Trent University. Now it is an Associate College of the University of Lincoln, the University of Bedfordshire, and De Montfort University; through these it offers HNDs and HNCs.
The college was never officially a full-fledged sixth form college, although heavily used for that purpose; in 2008 a purpose-built sixth form college opened elsewhere in Grantham at the Walton Girls High School.
From September 2010 it is now offering equestrian courses at Elms Farm Equestrian Centre in Caythorpe.
The Elsham House building was built by Richard Hornsby & Sons in the 1860s. The college has 77 residential places in Sedgwick Hall and Sedgwick Mews.
The college has another satellite at Sleaford called Sleaford College.
Grantham College is easily accessed via the A1 and East Coast Main Line, and especially the A52 from the east. However, most usage of the college is by people who live in close proximity. Further north of Grantham, similar education is available at Lincoln College's sites in Lincoln and Newark-on-Trent, and distantly to east in Boston is Boston College. Spalding or Bourne do not have FE colleges.
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