UK Further Education Colleges
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The general further education and sixth-form colleges of the four nations.
Median score
60
across 226 sites
Middle half
53–66
spread around the median
Full range
16–76
lowest to highest
Gated
86 of 226
block AI crawlers outright
Middle of 31 cohorts. All cohorts 54 · best cohort 63.
Where this list came from
The source, and how we filtered it
| Source | UK further education colleges, Department for Education (Get Information About Schools); Scottish Funding Council; Medr; NI Direct, Northern Ireland Executive (GIAS extract 2026-11-02; SFC college final funding allocations 2026-27 (May 2026); Medr/2025/06 Annex FE (August 2025) and Medr Register 2026-07-31; nidirect page read 2026-11-02) |
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| License | Open Government Licence v3.0 |
| Cite as | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| How we filtered it | England: every open GIAS establishment of type 18 'Further education', all FurtherEducationType values, keyed on URN, plus open type 45 'Academy 16-19 converter' establishments whose name contains 'college' (sixth-form colleges that became academies). Website is GIAS SchoolWebsite, else Wikidata P856 on the DfE URN (P2253), then on the UKPRN (P4971). Scotland: every college line in Table 2 of the SFC 2026-27 final college allocations, except SRUC (in uk-universities) and the 'Highlands & Islands Region' line, a funding region that names no college; websites from an exact-name Wikidata match. Wales: the 13 institutions on page 1 of Medr/2025/06 Annex FE; five take their website from Medr's HE register, the rest an exact-name Wikidata match. Northern Ireland: the FE section of nidirect's page, the six regional colleges and CAFRE at its root link. |
| Instead of | Medr's HE register alone was not used for Wales: it lists only the 5 Welsh colleges that teach HE. UKRLP was unavailable (502). |
| Built | 2026-11-02 |
The filtering is ours and is disclosed as ours. The source published a list; the decision about which rows of it belong in a cohort was a judgment call, and it is written down so somebody can disagree with it.
Distribution
Where the 226 sites land
| Grade | Share of the cohort | Sites | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adequate | 113 | 50.0% | |
| Weak | 97 | 42.9% | |
| Not ready | 14 | 6.2% | |
| Strong | 2 | 0.9% |
By dimension
What the cohort earns, dimension by dimension
The mean share of each dimension’s available points that this cohort earned. Low here means the whole sector is weak on it, not that one site dragged an average down. The per-site spread is in the dataset.
| Dimension | Mean share earned | Mean |
|---|---|---|
| #1 · Reach
These parameters determine the fundamental ease of access that AI has to your site information. |
77% | |
| #2 · Read
AI generally turns off JavaScript. Does your site information survive without it? |
58% | |
| #3 · Understand
Does a machine know who and what you are? |
31% | |
| #4 · Act
Sitemaps, redirects, 404s, licensing terms, and not wasting the crawl budget. |
72% |
How much of each site we read
The cap is 32 URLs and it is a ceiling, not a promise. A portal whose every link points at a different host yields one page; a university yields the full sample. The median here is 32, the range 1–32, published so that "we sampled 32 URLs per site" cannot become a claim the data does not support.
7 sites in this cohort served a certificate we could not verify. They were read anyway and scored normally, because reporting no response for a site every browser loads would describe our TLS stack rather than the site, and each one carries the finding in its row.
Where this cohort fails
11 tests almost nobody in this cohort passes
Universal — nobody passes these
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXT-11 | Have you marked the part of a page that answers a spoken question? | 226 | 0 | |
| EXT-12 | Do you tell search engines the moment a page changes? | 226 | 0 | |
| EXT-14 | Does your site offer its actions to AI browsers as tools? | 218 | 0 | |
| EXT-16 | Do you publish a card or a skills list for the agents you run? | 226 | 0 | |
| EXT-17 | Do you list your agents in your domain's DNS records? | 222 | 0 | |
| EXT-18 | Do you tell AI shoppers how they can pay? | 2 | 0 | |
| EXT-2 | Do you list your APIs and agent tools where agents look for them? | 21 | 0 | |
| EXT-7 | If you run real question-and-answer pages, are they marked as such? | 5 | 0 | |
| RED-11 | Does each page tell machines where its Markdown copy is? | 1 | 1 | |
| UND-3 | Do the prices and availability in your page code match what the page shows? | 2 | 3 | |
| UND-5 | Does the author label in your page code point to that person? | 198 | 1 |
Near-universal — 95% and above
| Test | What it asks | Failing | Of | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RED-10 | Do you offer a plain-text (Markdown) copy of your pages? | 196 | 2 | |
| PST-2 | Have you posted a Content Signals statement about what AI may do with your content? | 226 | 0 | |
| EXT-1 | Do you publish an llms.txt file for coding assistants? | 226 | 0 | |
| UND-2 | Does your site use the page labels that search engines still read for what you publish? | 226 | 3 | |
| RED-12 | If a machine asks for Markdown, does your site give it? | 226 | 2 | |
| UND-1 | Does your site say clearly who you are? | 226 | 2 |
Common — 90 to 95%
Coral bars mark tests worth 2 points or more, the failures that actually move a score.
Every site
Every 284, named, with a report for each
Whether or not it has been scanned. Rows with no website on record, sites that were unreachable and sites that turned us away stay in the table with the reason on them, and none of them enters an average: dropping them would shrink the population to the part that was easy to measure. A few points between two neighbors is noise. The box filters every row in the cohort, not only the page you are on; click a header to sort the rows on this page by name or by score.
Showing 1–100 of 284 · page 1 of 3
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barking and Dagenham College barkingdagenhamcollege.ac.ukregister id 130424; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| Barnet and Southgate College barnetsouthgate.ac.ukblockedregister id 130425; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Woodhouse College woodhouse.ac.ukregister id 148421; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | Gated | 32 | |
| Barnsley College barnsley.ac.ukregister id 130524; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bath College bathcollege.ac.ukregister id 130558; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Bedford College bedford.ac.ukregister id 130597; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 58 | No | 2 | |
| Birmingham Metropolitan College bmet.ac.ukblockedregister id 130466; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Fircroft College of Adult Education no website on recordregister id 130467; GIAS gives no website and Wikidata has none on the URN or UKPRN | — | No | — | |
| Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College jcc.ac.ukregister id 130468; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| South and City College Birmingham sccb.ac.ukregister id 130461; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 36 | Gated | 32 | |
| Blackburn College blackburn.ac.ukregister id 130736; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Blackpool and the Fylde College blackpool.ac.ukregister id 130739; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 31 | |
| The Blackpool Sixth Form College blackpoolsixth.ac.ukblockedregister id 150613; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Bolton College boltoncc.ac.ukregister id 130495; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 16 | Gated | 1 | |
| Bolton Sixth Form College bolton-sfc.ac.ukregister id 131867; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| The Bournemouth and Poole College thecollege.co.ukregister id 130652; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Bradford College bradfordcollege.ac.ukregister id 130532; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Shipley College shipley.ac.ukregister id 130534; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Brighton Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College bhasvic.ac.ukregister id 130669; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Varndean College varndean.ac.ukregister id 130668; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| City of Bristol College cityofbristol.ac.ukblockedregister id 131094; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| St Brendan's Sixth Form College stbrn.ac.ukregister id 130563; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| London South East Colleges lsec.ac.ukregister id 130430; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Buckinghamshire College Group buckscollegegroup.ac.ukregister id 130607; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Bury College burycollege.ac.ukregister id 130498; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Holy Cross College holycross.ac.ukregister id 130499; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Calderdale College calderdale.ac.ukregister id 130535; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Cambridge Regional College camre.ac.ukregister id 130610; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Hills Road Sixth Form College hillsroad.ac.ukregister id 152061; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 31 | |
| Long Road Sixth Form College longroad.ac.ukregister id 151132; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Capital City College capitalccg.ac.ukregister id 130421; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| City Lit citylit.ac.ukregister id 130401; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| The Mary Ward Centre (AE Centre) marywardcentre.ac.ukregister id 130404; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| WM College wmcollege.ac.ukregister id 130403; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Cheshire College - South & West ccsw.ac.ukregister id 130619; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | Gated | 32 | |
| Reaseheath College reaseheath.ac.ukregister id 130623; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Sir John Deane's Sixth Form College sjd.ac.ukregister id 145748; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Cornwall College cornwall.ac.ukregister id 130627; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Truro and Penwith College truro-penwith.ac.ukblockedregister id 130629; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Bishop Auckland College bishopaucklandcollege.ac.ukregister id 130657; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 1 | |
| Derwentside College derwentside.ac.ukregister id 130658; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 2 | |
| East Durham College edc.ac.ukregister id 131859; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 1 | |
| New College Durham newdur.ac.ukregister id 130659; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 1 | |
| Coventry College coventrycollege.ac.ukregister id 130472; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Hereward College of Further Education hereward.ac.ukregister id 130474; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Croydon College croydon.ac.ukregister id 130432; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lakes College - West Cumbria lakescollegewestcumbria.ac.ukregister id 130632; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Darlington College darlington.ac.ukregister id 130656; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College qeliz.nalp.org.ukregister id 150514; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Derby College derby-college.ac.ukregister id 133585; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 31 | |
| Chesterfield College chesterfield.ac.ukblockedregister id 130638; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Exeter and North Devon Colleges Group exe-coll.ac.ukblockedregister id 130645; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| DN Colleges Group dncolleges.ac.ukregister id 130587; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Weymouth and Kingston Maurward College weymouth.ac.ukblockedregister id 130653; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Dudley College of Technology dudleycol.ac.ukregister id 130475; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Halesowen College halesowen.ac.ukregister id 130476; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| King Edward VI College Stourbridge kedst.ac.ukblockedregister id 148142; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Bishop Burton College bishopburton.ac.ukregister id 130584; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| Bexhill College bexhillcollege.ac.ukblockedregister id 130670; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 401 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| East Sussex College Group escg.ac.ukregister id 130665; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Plumpton College plumpton.ac.ukblockedregister id 130667; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Capel Manor College capel.ac.ukblockedregister id 130438; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Chelmsford College chelmsford-college.ac.ukregister id 130679; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 62 | No | 1 | |
| Colchester Institute colchester.ac.ukregister id 130674; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Harlow College harlow-college.ac.ukregister id 130676; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | Gated | 32 | |
| The Sixth Form College Colchester colchsfc.ac.ukregister id 151134; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 32 | |
| USP College uspcollege.ac.ukregister id 130681; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Writtle College Limited aru.ac.ukregister id 150975; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; the published address is https://www.aru.ac.uk/writtle-college; cut to the site root | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Gateshead College gateshead.ac.ukregister id 130551; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 32 | |
| Cirencester College cirencester.ac.ukregister id 130686; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Gloucestershire College gloscol.ac.ukregister id 130683; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 23 | |
| Hartpury College hartpury.ac.ukregister id 146555; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Shooters Hill Sixth Form College shc.ac.ukregister id 138966; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 23 | |
| Riverside College Halton riversidecollege.ac.ukblockedregister id 130622; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College wlc.ac.ukregister id 130408; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Barton Peveril Sixth Form College barton-peveril.ac.ukregister id 130701; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Basingstoke College of Technology bcot.ac.ukregister id 130688; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Brockenhurst College brock.ac.ukregister id 130690; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Farnborough College of Technology farn-ct.ac.ukregister id 130689; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Havant and South Downs College hsdc.ac.ukregister id 130695; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Peter Symonds College psc.ac.ukregister id 130708; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | No | 14 | |
| Queen Mary's College qmc.ac.ukregister id 145175; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| South Hampshire College Group shcg.ac.ukblockedregister id 130693; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Sparsholt College Hampshire sparsholt.ac.ukregister id 130698; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 3 | |
| St Vincent College stvincent.ac.ukregister id 145229; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 67 | No | 32 | |
| The Sixth Form College Farnborough farnborough.ac.ukregister id 145057; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 1 | |
| Haringey Sixth Form College haringey6.ac.ukregister id 139363; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| St Dominic's Sixth Form College stdoms.ac.ukblockedregister id 130443; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 401 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Stanmore College stanmore.ac.ukblockedregister id 130440; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Hartlepool College of Further Education hartlepoolfe.ac.ukregister id 130567; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 2 | |
| Hereford College of Arts hca.ac.ukregister id 130714; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | Gated | 32 | |
| Hereford Sixth Form College hereford.ac.ukregister id 143929; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Herefordshire, Ludlow and North Shropshire College hlcollege.ac.ukblockedregister id 130710; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Hertford Regional College hrc.ac.ukregister id 130722; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| North Hertfordshire College nhc.ac.ukregister id 130721; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Oaklands College oaklands.ac.ukregister id 130723; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| West Herts College westherts.ac.ukregister id 130720; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| HRUC (Harrow, Richmond & Uxbridge Colleges) hruc.ac.ukregister id 130446; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 32 | Gated | 1 | |
| West Thames College west-thames.ac.ukregister id 130447; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 30 | |
| The Isle of Wight College iwcollege.ac.ukregister id 130724; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 42 | Gated | 32 |
Scores are for the population, not for ranking two named sites against each other. A few points between neighbors is noise. See what these numbers can and cannot support. Headline figures: summary.json (CC BY 4.0). The site-by-site data on this page is licensed; a bulk copy is from TEN7 for a fee.