South Bank Colleges students recorded 529 successful Level 3 outcomes this summer — 90.7% of all confirmed results — across vocational, creative, technical and access qualifications.

Behind that number are dental technicians, electricians, biomedical scientists, animators, performers, engineers and finance analysts, all of whom spent two years learning a craft properly. Here's some of what they achieved.

T Levels: every student who completed their placement achieved the qualification

T Levels are demanding by design. Alongside the classroom work, students complete a substantial industry placement with a real employer, doing real work to real deadlines — and the qualification isn't awarded without it.

All of our second-year students who completed their industry placement went on to achieve a full T Level. More than that: 83% achieved Merit or above, including six Distinctions and one Distinction*.

That's an exceptional grade profile for a qualification this new and this rigorous, and it says something about what happens when a college's teaching and its employer partnerships pull in the same direction.

Creative students post a 94% pass rate, with 60% of those students achieving a Merit or a Distinction.

Three extended diploma cohorts came through with no fails at all:

• Creative Practice: Art, Design and Communication.
• Creative Media Production and Technology.
• Performing and Production Arts.

For students weighing up whether a creative course can be as substantial as an academic one, those are the numbers to look at.

A clean sweep in Electrical Installation

Every one of the Advanced Technical Diploma in Electrical Installation certifications was a pass, 75% were at Merit or Distinction. 

Six BTEC cohorts with 100% pass rates

Almost 100 students across six BTEC course groups saw every single member of their cohort pass:

Course	Students
Dental Technology (full-time, final year)	25
Dental Technology (adult part-time, final year)	16
Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and Robotics	16
Construction and the Built Environment	15
Applied Science: Biomedical Science	15
Esports	7

Biomedical Science deserves a particular mention: all 15 students passed, and every one achieved a grade profile of MPP or higher.

Strength across the board

Across the wider college, BTEC students recorded a 92.4% pass rate, and NCFE students  93.8%. Our Access to HE students — many of them adults returning to education alongside jobs and families — achieved an 85% pass rate, with Medicine and Health, and Human Sciences, among the strongest course groups.

And a nod to the year below: our first-year Early Years T Level students achieved six core component passes from six, every grade between A and C. A good sign of what's coming next summer.

Congratulations to all out students, everyone has worked incredibly hard to achieve their grades - we are very proud of you all. 

Thinking about September?

Enrolment is open now. We teach T Levels, BTECs, technical diplomas, creative qualifications and Access to HE on the same campuses, which means you can talk through all of them in one conversation rather than picking from a prospectus and hoping.