About Us

Our mission is to provide the necessary skills and knowledge to help learners achieve academic success, enabling them to seek employment opportunities with good earnings potential. 

The College of Central London is a private college of further and higher education, established in 1968 and celebrating 51 years’ service this year. 

The college is located just east of the financial hub of the City of London in the vicinity of Tower Bridge and not far from Tower Hill underground station. We arrange guided tours to special places of interest such as Parliament, the Law Courts and the Stock Exchange. Site visits have previously been arranged to Sky headquarters, the Lloyds building and the National Archives.

We offer a mix of courses in Facilities management, Business, Computing, Shipping and Logistics and Management, increasingly independent learners are looking for online or evenings and we have adapted to meet this challenge. 

All FM courses are in the evenings with some offered as in-house training. Computing and Business level 3, HND's are now offered by distance and blended learning. Currently Shipping and Logistics is only offered as classroom based.

As a private college we are able to control our own fee structure and it has always been our goal to offer students quality education at affordable tuition fees. By controlling our own fees we aim to give students value for money when selecting us as their place of learning.

Brief history 
The College of Central London was founded in 1968 as St Patrick’s College at 24 Great Chapel Street off Oxford Street, London W1 and is a long established provider of education and training. The college name was changed in 1977 to Central London College when it moved to bigger premises at 213-216 Tottenham Court Road with the view to providing education in language, business and computing. A further name change was made in 1996 to the College of Central London. 
Dates of locations as follows:
1968 – 1979 Great Chapel St London W1
1979 – 1997 Tottenham Court Road London W1
1997 – 2002 Great Ormond St WC1
2002 – 2011 Great Eastern Street London EC2
2011 – 2013 Baches St London N1
2013 – 2015 Leman St E1
2015 – PRESENT East Smithfield London E1

Since its foundation, the College has had periods of expansion and retraction reflecting government policies of the day on immigration. In those days the college was primarily made up of international students. 
The college finds itself in its current accommodation with one office and one classroom after a period of tumultuous change in the private education sector since 2009. Where other private colleges have failed, this one has managed change and where it previously focused on international students to dealing with the home market and those from EU. The college no longer has a Tier 4 license and has no intention of applying for one under the present restrictive government conditions applying to immigration. BAC Accreditation is maintained because of the need to have an accredited body dedicated to enhancing the standards and quality of independent further and higher education providers. 
We aim to build strong relationships with our students to encourage and maintain a pleasant ambiance. 

Staff show good support for individual students and sensitivity to their language needs. We are available to help students with any problems that arise during their studies.

Many of our students return the following year to follow another course. Many more recommend their friends and relations to study with us. 
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Accreditation

We have been a recognised centre with BTEC since Tec and Bec formed to create BTEC which is now owned by Pearson.
We have also been a recognised centre with IWFM previously BIFM when it formed in 1993 from its previous title IFM.
Students or education authorities requiring information regarding the status of the College and its courses are invited to refer
to the bodies listed below for which the College has approval:
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