St Helens College

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St Helens College is a general further education college serving the borough of St Helens in Merseyside, England, United Kingdom, with around 15,000 students enrolled on over 600 different courses of study. The college employs 836 staff of whom 373 are academic staff and 463 are business support.

The College provides a wide range of both further and higher education programmes, including qualifications including City and Guilds, National Diplomas, National Awards, National Certificates and NVQs, and also offers honours and foundation degrees validated through established partnerships with universities including University of Central Lancashire, Edge Hill University, University of Huddersfield, Liverpool John Moores University, University of Salford and Sheffield Hallam University. There are a number of entry level qualifications available.

St Helens College is a member of the 157 Group of high performing schools.

The college website is http://www.sthelens.ac.uk/

e-learning

Distance learning

The college offers three level 3 access to higher education courses partly via distance learning:

http://www.sthelens.ac.uk/adults/adult-courses/access-to-he/464-access-to-higher-education-diploma-in-nursingdiploma-in-midwifery-distance-learning-pathway

http://www.sthelens.ac.uk/adults/adult-courses/access-to-he/466-access-to-higher-education-diploma-in-teachingdiploma-in-humanities-distance-learning-pathway

http://www.sthelens.ac.uk/adults/adult-courses/access-to-he/465-access-to-higher-education-diploma-in-social-workdiploma-in-social-science-distance-learning-p

Online learning for on-campus students

The college's libraries offer students access to online resources: http://www.sthelens.ac.uk/home/college-servicesgroup1/library-services

Open Educational Resources (OER)

No evidence of OERs found.

VLE

Moodle is the VLE at St Helens College.

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