Central College London

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.

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.