Making a decision about your education is one of the most important things you’ll ever do

Next steps for school leavers

When you select TyneMet as your next step, you’re not just choosing great courses, you’re choosing an entire way of life. Our team cares about every student and each tutor is dedicated to making your time at the college as fulfilling and enjoyable as possible.

Life within the college community gives school leavers the chance to experience an independent way of learning. TyneMet is a place to enjoy new freedoms and take on fresh responsibilities for your own personal development. The college has a welcoming community feel that reaches beyond brilliant teaching to provide students with all the support they need to discover talents, improve skills and broaden their minds.

Working alongside key industry players from across the North East, TyneMet offers students invaluable work experience and placements, preparing them for professional working life. Students also benefit from contact with experts within the college’s learning environment itself. Individuals from various sectors visit to share their expertise, enriching the excellent learning experience TyneMet offers.

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Courses for you

As a school leaver you have a range of options including a wide selection of A level and AS level subjects, hands-on vocational programmes and apprenticeships to suit all interests and abilities. Whoever you are and however you imagine your future may be, TyneMet has the course for you.

Queen Alexandra Sixth Form College

We’ve brought together the expertise of John Spence Community High School, Marden High School, Norham Community Technology College and Tyne Metropolitan College to create a unique school – college partnership that provides students from these and other institutions with a specialised sixth form, dedicated to A level teaching and preparation for university and working life.

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Vocational Study

Enrolling on a TyneMet Vocational Study course is a great way to enhance your current qualifications and skills or learn an entirely new subject. Each course is directly related to the real world of work and students enjoy a learning experience that can lead onto a career or further study at university.

TyneMet's Vocational Study team has decades of professional and industrial experience. The college has close links with both employers and other education providers, helping students to fully prepare for their future.

The range of vocational subjects on offer is vast; students can take their pick from engineering, art, catering, IT, health and social care and much more besides. To improve your employment opportunities, or move onto Higher Education to achieve your aspirations, TyneMet’s Vocational Study programme is first choice.

• Art and Design
• Beauty
• Catering
• Computing and business
• Engineering, Construction and horticulture
• Foundation learning
• Hairdressing
• Health, public services and care
• Sport, travel and tourism

Apprenticeships

TyneMet Apprenticeships offer students a clear route to employment by combining skills training with broad on-the-job experience. The college’s apprenticeship offer is growing all the time, equipping future employees to claim their place as part of the UK’s competitive workforce.

Apprenticeships provide practical training in the workplace alongside college based or employer based learning, which supports the knowledge and understanding required to excel in each industry. This means that as well as gaining everyday technical skills, students develop a comprehensive understanding of their particular industry, enabling a smoother and more successful transition into the world of work.

Check out our Apprenticeship courses