Brooklands College

Brooklands College
Location
Heath Road, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 8TT and Church Road, Ashford, Middlesex, TW15 2XD United Kingdom
Information
Motto	Outstanding Every Day
Principal	Maureen Kilminster
Staff	over 500
Enrollment	5,000+
Website	http://www.brooklands.ac.uk/

Brooklands College is a further education college in Weybridge and Ashford. In August 2007, Brooklands merged with Spelthorne College in Ashford. The Weybridge campus is set in the grounds of Hugh F. Locke-King's historic mansion at Brooklands. The Ashford campus is located on Ashford's high street about 5 minutes walk from the station. The college provides courses for those leaving school after GCSEs offering a wide variety of vocational subjects, an A level programme and apprenticeships. The college also offers professional courses for adults including foundation degrees in a number of areas and other courses where new skills can be acquired.

There are around 5,000 students attending the college; of these around 2,500 are full-time.

The college holds a series of Information events and Open Days for new students to see for themselves what the college has to offer. The dates of these can be found on the website.

Alumni

• Susannah Clapp, Theatre Critic since 1997 of The Observer
• Gary Numan, musician
• Arthur Palmer, Labour MP from 1945-50 for Wimbledon, from 1952-9 for Cleveland, from 1964-74 for Bristol Central, and from 1974-83 for Bristol North East
• Irene Thomas
• Norman Willis, General Secretary from 1984-93 of the TUC
• Robert Evans (politician), Labour MEP for London 1994-2009at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles; 1983 World Champion in the World 10km road race championship.

In popular culture

• The 2007 film, "I Want Candy" starring Carmen Electra was filmed at Brooklands College.
• Pop Punk band "You Me at Six" was formed from students at Brooklands College.

College website

Brooklands College Website