By choosing to study at Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College in Darlington, you can be confident that your decision will lead to a wonderful future. As a specialist sixth form college, we offer the widest choice of A level subjects in the region and you are able to combine subjects to create individualised study programmes to suit your interests.

Very importantly, you will be able to work with teachers who, by specialising in post-16 education, are experts in their subjects and in working with your age group on advanced level courses.

At QE, you will benefit from a mature and vibrant college environment where we all work together to inspire you to be successful not only in your academic results but also in your future careers.

Our academic success speaks for itself.  In addition to students securing excellent results, around 700 each year progress to more than 100 different universities, including 200 to the Russell Group. We ensure that you are provided with the skills, opportunities and experiences to enhance your applications to university courses, higher level apprenticeships or employment.

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Principal Tim Fisher explains: “The commitment we make to each and every one of our students is to educate the ‘whole person’, so not only do we enable them to achieve and succeed academically, but QE also helps them find their voices, grow in confidence, explore their creativity, test their capabilities, cultivate their many talents and nurture their psychological wellbeing.

“Only through this enhanced level of learning, within a dynamic and forward-thinking college setting, can students realise their true potential and self-worth.”

QE offers an exciting and extensive enrichment programme, with more than 60 extra-curricular activities, courses and groups that will enable you to have fun and make friends, while developing key skills, gaining qualifications, or simply exploring new hobbies and interests.

We also provide numerous leadership opportunities, including the Duke of Edinburgh award, Combined Cadet Force, Future Engineers scheme and a student Sport Management programme, to enhance your personal development and to give you valuable employability skills.

Our national award-winning community group, Interact, has raised thousands of pounds for charities both in the UK and abroad, worked with organisations throughout the North East and North Yorkshire, and supported tens of thousands of people through various care schemes and projects.

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The College’s LGBT+ student group has been instrumental in QE recently being awarded the full Rainbow Flag Award, a national quality assurance framework for schools and colleges that seek to improve LGBT+ inclusion and visibility.

Tim Fisher adds: “The opportunities are endless for the increasing numbers of students wanting to enrol at QE. We continue to invest millions in our buildings and facilities such as our newly extended and refurbished Student Common Room to ensure we provide the very best, all-round education for 16 to 18-year-olds in the region.”

We are delighted by the large number of students from across Darlington, County Durham, Teesside and North Yorkshire who make QE their first choice for post-16 study.

For further information about QE, please email Laurence Job, Deputy Principal ljob@qeliz.ac.uk.