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sixth-form college

British  

noun

  1. (in England and Wales) a college offering A-level and other courses to pupils over sixteen from local schools, esp from those that do not have sixth forms

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Roland says she saw the BBC's student loans reporting on the same day she attended a talk given by a representative of the Student Loans Company at her daughter's sixth-form college.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

It started at the end of sixth-form college, when many of his friends had left for university and he was yet to get a job.

From BBC • Oct. 23, 2020

The college does not meet the legal minimum education or safeguarding requirements of a sixth-form college, she said.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2018

The victims were Aysha Frade, 44, who worked at a London sixth-form college; American tourist Kurt Cochran, 54, from Utah; retired window cleaner Leslie Rhodes, 75, from south London; and father-of-two PC Keith Palmer, 48.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2017

He told the sixth-form college I then applied to that he had expelled me.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2016

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