Lakes College | Careermap

What We Offer Here at Lakes College, we aim to provide the best experience for every single one of our students. We firmly believe in helping all our students get to where they want to be in life.

Our focus isn’t just on qualifications… we want to help you to have a successful career and it all starts right here.

Our College Values

Ready Ensure you are always appropriately equipped for your lessons.
Respectful Be a positive role model for Lakes College at all times.
Potential Set targets to help you constantly develop and improve.

LAKES COLLEGE - OUR STORY

We are the main provider of Further and Higher Education in West Cumbria, serving primarily the boroughs of Allerdale and Copeland with a wide range of technical and vocational education, training and services. We have served our region for many decades, during which we have established an excellent reputation for our technical training, support and responsiveness, delivered from our modern, well-resourced campus and facilities.

We are very ambitious for the future, aiming to ensure the people and employers of West Cumbria and beyond have access to an excellent technical college for Further and Higher Education. Our Beyond Good programme described in this document is driving our development to ensure we have the highest standards and expectations. We are committed to long term sustainability and financial health, positive environmental credentials, top class facilities, highly skilled and well supported staff, innovation, genuine collaboration and an offer from Levels 1 to 7 that is well suited to local needs and national priorities.

WHAT WE DO

We reflect and respond to the needs of our service area and communities, meeting the training requirements of the broad cross-section of employers in our region. Nuclear and its wider supply chain is a significant sector for us. We are a founding member of the National College for Nuclear (NCfN) and host its Northern Hub on our campus, delivering nuclear-related courses and qualifications up to degree level. STEM subjects, Construction, Civils, and Health and Social Care are our main areas of provision, whilst we maintain a broad and deep offer to support our local economy and communities, including: the Arts, Computing and Business, Public Services and Sport, Catering, Education and Early Years. We are a significant HE provider locally, particularly within Engineering, Construction and the Sciences.

“We are fully inclusive and believe in the potential of everyone.”