If you don’t have any qualifications yet, then you won’t be out of place at Fircroft. Our Access students come from all background. However, they all have in common a desire to learn and to improve their situation.
Many of our students have got stuck in dead-end jobs and come here because they know they can achieve far more. Some have overcome drugs, domestic violence or mental health problems to get here. Some are parents – their children have gone to school or university and think “Now it’s my turn”!
The majority of students go straight from Fircroft into university. Some decide to stay in the West Midlands at Birmingham, Newman University College, Aston, UCE Birmingham, Wolverhampton or Warwick Universities. Others seek specialist courses elsewhere like Drugs, Media, Communications or Teaching. The most common degree subjects are Social Work and Social Policy. 2009 saw our first Access to HE student accepted into Cambridge University!
We have excellent contact with Higher Educational Institutions and offer advice and guidance throughout the application process.
Posted : 1st September 2010
When Andrea Accison first enrolled on a short course at Fircroft in 2007, no-one could have predicted that just three years later she would be travelling to the House of Lords in London to receive a prestigious national award.
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Posted : 1st September 2009
When you have reached that stage in your life when you no longer know what you are doing and you don’t much care what happens to you or about your job, then that is the time when you take a chance.
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Posted : 1st September 2009
I left school at 16 with a few GCSEs and dropped out of a college course at the age of 17. I worked in various jobs and did a bit of travelling until discovering Fircroft when I was 25.
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Posted : 1st September 2009
I discovered Fircroft College of Adult Education the very next day and decided almost instantly that I would apply for the Access to HE Diploma to try and gain entry to University.
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Posted : 1st September 2008
My experience at Fircroft College has definitely served as a positive platform from which I can effectively continue my interests in academic study.
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