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 101–200 of 284 · page 2 of 3
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Charles Catholic Sixth Form College stcharles.ac.ukregister id 130411; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| EKC Group ekcgroup.ac.ukblockedregister id 130728; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| North Kent College northkent.ac.ukregister id 130725; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 1 | |
| Hull College hull-college.ac.ukblockedregister id 130579; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Wilberforce College wilberforce.ac.ukblockedregister id 130580; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Wyke Sixth Form College wyke.ac.ukregister id 130581; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| South Thames Colleges Group stcg.ac.ukregister id 130448; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Greenhead College greenhead.ac.ukregister id 130538; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Huddersfield New College huddnewcoll.ac.ukregister id 130539; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Kirklees College kirkleescollege.ac.ukregister id 130537; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Morley College London morleycollege.ac.ukregister id 130412; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| South Bank Colleges southbankcolleges.ac.ukregister id 130413; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| The Marine Society College of the Sea marine-society.orgregister id 130414; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 32 | |
| Burnley College burnley.ac.ukregister id 130735; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| Cardinal Newman College cardinalnewman.ac.ukregister id 130745; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| East Lancashire Learning Group eastlancslearning.ac.ukregister id 130738; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Lancaster and Morecambe College lmc.ac.ukregister id 130737; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Myerscough College myerscough.ac.ukregister id 130743; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Preston College preston.ac.ukregister id 130740; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Runshaw College runshaw.ac.ukblockedregister id 130741; 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 | — | |
| Leeds College of Building lcb.ac.ukregister id 130542; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Luminate Education Group luminate.ac.ukregister id 135771; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College notredamecoll.ac.ukregister id 130548; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 29 | |
| Gateway Sixth Form College gateway.ac.ukblockedregister id 147756; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Leicester College leicestercollege.ac.ukregister id 131863; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 55 | No | 32 | |
| WQE and Regent College Group wqe.ac.ukregister id 130756; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Loughborough College loucoll.ac.ukregister id 130748; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| Melton Vale Sixth Form College mv16.org.ukregister id 145158; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 39 | Gated | 1 | |
| Christ The King Sixth Form College ctk.ac.ukregister id 130416; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 32 | |
| Boston College boston.ac.ukregister id 130761; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Grantham College grantham.ac.ukregister id 130759; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Lincoln College lincolncollege.ac.ukblockedregister id 130762; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| The City of Liverpool College liv-coll.ac.ukregister id 130487; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Luton Sixth Form College lutonsfc.ac.ukregister id 130600; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Loreto College loreto.ac.ukregister id 130503; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| LTE Group themanchestercollege.ac.ukregister id 135524; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 1 | |
| Xaverian College xaverian.ac.ukregister id 130504; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| MidKent College midkent.ac.ukregister id 130726; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Middlesbrough College middlesbro.ac.ukregister id 130570; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 1 | |
| The Northern College of Art no website on recordregister id 152679; GIAS gives no website and Wikidata has none on the URN or UKPRN | — | No | — | |
| Milton Keynes College mkcollege.ac.ukregister id 130609; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | No | 32 | |
| NCG ncgrp.co.ukregister id 130552; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | No | 27 | |
| Newham College of Further Education newham.ac.ukblockedregister id 130451; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| East Norfolk Sixth Form College eastnorfolk.ac.ukregister id 145749; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| Norwich City College of Further and Higher Education ccn.ac.ukregister id 130764; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| The College of West Anglia cwa.ac.ukregister id 130763; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | Gated | 32 | |
| Franklin Sixth Form College franklin.ac.ukregister id 152060; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 7 | |
| TEC Partnership grimsby.ac.ukregister id 130585; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| John Leggott Sixth Form College leggott.ac.ukregister id 130588; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| Weston College weston.ac.ukregister id 130564; 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 | |
| Craven College craven-college.ac.ukregister id 130591; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| Scarborough Sixth Form College s6f.org.ukregister id 130593; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | No | 5 | |
| Bilborough College no website on recordregister id 147285; GIAS gives no website and Wikidata has none on the URN or UKPRN | — | No | — | |
| Nottingham College nottinghamcollege.ac.ukregister id 130776; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| West Nottinghamshire College wnc.ac.ukregister id 130777; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 54 | Gated | 32 | |
| Oldham Sixth Form College osfc.ac.ukregister id 145002; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 40 | Gated | 32 | |
| The Oldham College oldham.ac.ukregister id 130505; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Abingdon and Witney College abingdon-witney.ac.ukregister id 130793; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Activate Learning activatelearning.ac.ukblockedregister id 134153; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Ruskin College ruskin.ac.ukregister id 130794; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | Gated | 32 | |
| The Henley College henleycol.ac.ukregister id 130789; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | Gated | 32 | |
| Inspire Education Group peterborough.ac.ukblockedregister id 130613; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| City College Plymouth cityplym.ac.ukblockedregister id 130649; 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 | — | |
| City of Portsmouth College city-of-portsmouth-college.ac.ukregister id 130697; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Prior Pursglove and Stockton Sixth Form College pursglove.ac.ukregister id 145227; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 76 | No | 32 | |
| Richmond and Hillcroft Adult and Community College (Rhacc) no website on recordregister id 133053; GIAS gives no website and Wikidata has none on the URN or UKPRN | — | No | — | |
| Hopwood Hall College hopwood.ac.ukregister id 130507; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Rochdale Sixth Form College rochdalesfc.ac.ukregister id 144463; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| RNN Group rotherham.ac.ukregister id 130527; 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 | |
| Thomas Rotherham College trc.ac.ukregister id 145230; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | No | 32 | |
| Salford City College salfordcc.ac.ukregister id 130509; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Sandwell College sandwell.ac.ukblockedregister id 130479; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Hugh Baird College hughbaird.ac.ukregister id 130490; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Southport Education Group southport.ac.ukregister id 130491; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 29 | |
| The Sheffield College sheffcol.ac.ukregister id 130531; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Shrewsbury College no website on recordregister id 130800; GIAS gives no website and Wikidata has none on the URN or UKPRN | — | No | — | |
| Windsor Forest Colleges Group windsor-forest.ac.ukblockedregister id 130604; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Solihull College & University Centre solihull.ac.ukregister id 130481; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| Solihull Sixth Form College solihullsfc.ac.ukblockedregister id 144887; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Richard Huish College huish.ac.ukregister id 148791; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| University Centre Somerset College Group ucscollegegroup.ac.ukblockedregister id 130803; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Yeovil College yeovil.ac.ukblockedregister id 130805; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| South Gloucestershire and Stroud College sgscol.ac.ukregister id 139238; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Tyne Coast College stc.ac.ukregister id 130555; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 65 | No | 1 | |
| Itchen College itchen.ac.ukblockedregister id 130704; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 401 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Richard Taunton Sixth Form College richardtaunton.ac.ukregister id 145228; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| South Essex College of Further and Higher Education southessex.ac.ukregister id 130672; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Carmel College carmel.ac.ukunreachableregister id 130489; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| St Helens College sthelens.ac.ukregister id 130488; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Burton and South Derbyshire College no website on recordregister id 130809; GIAS gives no website and Wikidata has none on the URN or UKPRN | — | No | — | |
| Newcastle and Stafford Colleges Group nulc.ac.ukregister id 130812; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| South Staffordshire College southstaffs.ac.ukblockedregister id 135658; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Aquinas College aquinas.ac.ukregister id 130514; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 76 | No | 32 | |
| The Education Training Collective the-etc.ac.ukblockedregister id 130576; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| City of Stoke-On-Trent Sixth Form College stokesfc.ac.ukregister id 145003; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 65 | No | 32 | |
| Stoke-on-Trent College stokecoll.ac.ukblockedregister id 130815; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| East Coast College eastcoast.ac.ukregister id 130819; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| One Sixth Form College suffolkone.ac.ukregister id 142283; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Suffolk New College suffolk.ac.ukblockedregister id 130820; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| West Suffolk College wsc.ac.ukregister id 130818; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 43 | 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.