About Us

The college is committed to ensuring its curriculum meets the needs of industry and has committed over £8 million to a STEM centre, providing outstanding resources within the Engineering, Construction and Digital sectors. In addition, the college has invested heavily in Digital and Graphics and is one of only two colleges in the North East to offer the newly introduced T-levels in 2020. With further significant investment planned to support additional T-Level qualifications being offered from 2021/22 including Health and Life Sciences, Business and Leadership and Early Years.

New College Durham is nationally recognised as a leading provider of apprenticeship delivery. The college offers a wide range of provision in both frameworks and standards from level 2 to level 7.

The broad range of provision includes well established curriculums in areas such as Construction, Engineering and Digital, as well as diversifying into new sectors such as Fire Safety, Dental Nursing and Human Resources. This has ensured over 1,000 apprentices are in learning year on year, meeting the needs of local and regional employers.

The college offers an extensive portfolio of over 50 different higher education qualifications from level 4 to 7 that are designed, developed and maintained to meet the skills needs of regional and national employers. The college has been validating its own foundation degrees for over 7 years, as well as working in partnership with the Open University to validate degrees and Masters qualifications.

The college places a strategic value on higher education within the curriculum. Following the publication of the details for Degree Awarding Powers, work has commenced to secure these in order to extend the college’s awarding powers to level 6.

New College Durham was one of the first colleges to be awarded Foundation Degree Awarding Powers and continues to be one of a small number of colleges to hold these powers.

As a disability confident Leader, we are committed to employing disabled people and people with health conditions making reasonable adjustments to support disabled applicants when required.