USP College

USP College
Location
Map
Essex
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RM17 5TD (Palmer's Campus)
SS7 1TW (Seevic Campus)
Information
TypeGeneral further education college
MottoYour life Your Career
Established1706 (Palmer's College)
1972 (Seevic College)
Department for Education URN130681 Tables
OfstedReports
Principal and CEODan Pearson
GenderCo-educational
Age16 to 25+
Enrolment3,588
Former namesPalmer's College &
Seevic College
Websitehttps://www.uspcollege.ac.uk/

Unified Seevic Palmer's College, trading as USP College[1][2] (previously known as Seevic and Palmer's Colleges Group),[3] is a large general further education college in Essex, England.[4] It was established in August 2017 from the merger of Palmer's College in Grays, Thurrock, and Seevic College in Thundersley, Benfleet, and traces its history back to the establishment of Palmer's as a charity school in 1706. Seevic College was established as a sixth form college in 1972, with Seevic originally being an acronym for South East Essex Sixth (VI) Form College.[5] Seevic and Palmer's now make up two of the college's three campuses, with the XTEND Digital Campus in Canvey Island forming its third campus.[6] There were 3,588 students enrolled to the college as of November 2021.[4]

The Seevic Campus offers adult education courses for learners of any age. Both campuses offer a special needs department for anyone with a learning disability. The Palmer's campus opened its special needs department in September 2018, following the success of the Seevic Campus one which has been running for several years and has over 94 students in the department.

In 2018 Seevic merged with Palmer's College as part of a government initiative.[7] From September 2018 the colleges were renamed USP College with a new logo.

It was announced in March 2019 that USP had purchased local apprenticeship provider ITEC Learning Technologies which would increase the number of apprenticeship training options USP could offer.[8]

  1. ^ "USP College Access and Widening Participation Statement 2018/19" (PDF). USP College. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  2. ^ "Governance". USP College. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  3. ^ New college gives students USP Archived 20 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine 19 July 2018
  4. ^ a b This article contains OGL licensed text This article incorporates text published under the British Open Government Licence: "Inspection of USP College". Ofsted. 12 November 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Our History". USP College. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  6. ^ "USP College awarded Good grading by Ofsted". USP College. 17 January 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  7. ^ "Where Are We - Seevic College". www.seevic-college.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 21 October 2011. Retrieved 12 November 2011.
  8. ^ "USP College and ITEC merger to deliver more choice in high quality apprenticeships - YouThurrock.com p.1 March 2019". March 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2019.