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 201–284 of 284 · page 3 of 3
| Site | Score | Gated | Pages read | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| City of Sunderland College sunderlandcollege.ac.ukregister id 131347; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Brooklands College brooklands.ac.ukblockedregister id 130825; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| East Surrey College esc.ac.ukregister id 130824; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| Esher Sixth Form College esher.ac.ukregister id 145006; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Godalming College godalming.ac.ukregister id 145004; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 56 | No | 8 | |
| North East Surrey College of Technology nescot.ac.ukblockedregister id 130822; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Reigate College reigate.ac.ukregister id 145005; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 32 | |
| Woking College woking.ac.ukregister id 145007; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | Gated | 32 | |
| New College Swindon newcollege.ac.ukregister id 130851; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| Ashton Sixth Form College asfc.ac.ukregister id 146816; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 48 | Gated | 32 | |
| Tameside College tameside.ac.ukregister id 130516; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 33 | Gated | 32 | |
| Telford College telfordcollege.ac.ukregister id 130796; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | Gated | 32 | |
| South Devon College southdevon.ac.ukblockedregister id 130648; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| New City College ncclondon.ac.ukblockedregister id 130418; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 | — | No | — | |
| Workers' Educational Association wea.org.ukblockedregister id 130419; 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 | — | |
| The Trafford and Stockport College Group trafford.ac.ukregister id 130519; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Heart of Yorkshire Education Group heartofyorkshire.ac.ukregister id 130549; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| New College Pontefract ncpontefract.ac.ukregister id 144732; 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 | |
| Walsall College walsallcollege.ac.ukregister id 130483; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Leyton Sixth Form College leyton.ac.ukregister id 130457; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Sir George Monoux College no website on recordregister id 130458; GIAS gives no website and Wikidata has none on the URN or UKPRN | — | No | — | |
| Waltham Forest College waltham.ac.ukregister id 130456; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 62 | No | 31 | |
| St Francis Xavier Sixth Form College sfx.ac.ukregister id 130422; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Priestley College priestley.ac.ukregister id 144782; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 61 | No | 32 | |
| Warrington and Vale Royal College warrington.ac.ukregister id 130617; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| King Edward VI College ke6n.ac.ukregister id 145174; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| North Warwickshire and South Leicestershire College nwslc.ac.ukregister id 130836; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| Warwickshire College Group warwickshire.ac.ukregister id 130835; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 52 | No | 1 | |
| Newbury College newbury-college.ac.ukregister id 130602; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Moulton College moulton.ac.ukregister id 130772; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | No | 32 | |
| Northampton College northamptoncollege.ac.ukregister id 130769; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| Chichester College Group chichester.ac.ukblockedregister id 130843; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| The College of Richard Collyer In Horsham collyers.ac.ukregister id 152062; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | No | 32 | |
| Ada National College for Digital Skills ada.ac.ukregister id 143540; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| United Colleges Group cwc.ac.ukregister id 130423; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 1 | |
| Kendal College kendal.ac.ukregister id 130631; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 62 | No | 32 | |
| St John Rigby RC Sixth Form College sjr.ac.ukregister id 130523; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Wigan and Leigh College wigan-leigh.ac.ukregister id 130521; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Winstanley College winstanley.ac.ukblockedregister id 130522; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Wiltshire College and University Centre wiltshire.ac.ukregister id 132779; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 44 | Gated | 32 | |
| Birkenhead Sixth Form College bsfc.ac.ukregister id 144829; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Wirral Metropolitan College wmc.ac.ukregister id 130493; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 53 | Gated | 32 | |
| City of Wolverhampton College wolvcoll.ac.ukregister id 130484; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Heart of Worcestershire College howcollege.ac.ukregister id 130713; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Worcester Sixth Form College wsfc.ac.ukblockedregister id 144888; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it; not measured: HTTP 403 (Cloudflare) | — | No | — | |
| Askham Bryan College askham-bryan.ac.ukregister id 130595; address from GIAS (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 74 | No | 32 | |
| York College yorkcollege.ac.ukregister id 130594; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; GIAS gives no website; Wikidata's on the URN is used | 62 | No | 32 | |
| Ayrshire College www1.ayrshire.ac.ukregister id SFC: Ayrshire College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 51 | Gated | 32 | |
| Borders College borderscollege.ac.ukregister id SFC: Borders College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 55 | Gated | 32 | |
| City of Glasgow College cityofglasgowcollege.ac.ukregister id SFC: City of Glasgow College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 28 | Gated | 1 | |
| Dumfries & Galloway College dumgal.ac.ukregister id SFC: Dumfries & Galloway College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | Gated | 32 | |
| Dundee & Angus College dundeeandangus.ac.ukregister id SFC: Dundee & Angus College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | Gated | 32 | |
| Edinburgh College edinburghcollege.ac.ukregister id SFC: Edinburgh College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Fife College fife.ac.ukregister id SFC: Fife College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it; the published address is http://www.fife.ac.uk/Pages/default.aspx; cut to the site root | 50 | Gated | 32 | |
| Forth Valley College forthvalley.ac.ukregister id SFC: Forth Valley College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 57 | No | 32 | |
| Glasgow Clyde College glasgowclyde.ac.ukregister id SFC: Glasgow Clyde College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Glasgow Kelvin College glasgowkelvin.ac.ukregister id SFC: Glasgow Kelvin College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 68 | No | 31 | |
| New College Lanarkshire nclanarkshire.ac.ukregister id SFC: New College Lanarkshire; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| Newbattle Abbey College newbattleabbeycollege.ac.ukregister id SFC: Newbattle Abbey College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| North East Scotland College nescol.ac.ukregister id SFC: North East Scotland College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Sabhal Mór Ostaig no website on recordregister id SFC: Sabhal Mór Ostaig; the SFC's allocation tables give no web address and no Wikidata item has this name | — | No | — | |
| South Lanarkshire College south-lanarkshire-college.ac.ukregister id SFC: South Lanarkshire College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 1 | |
| West College Scotland westcollegescotland.ac.ukregister id SFC: West College Scotland; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 66 | No | 32 | |
| West Lothian College west-lothian.ac.ukregister id SFC: West Lothian College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 58 | No | 32 | |
| Adult Learning Wales (ALW) no website on recordregister id Medr FE: Adult Learning Wales (ALW); Medr's funding annex gives no web address and no Wikidata item has this name | — | No | — | |
| Bridgend College bridgend.ac.ukregister id Medr FE: Bridgend College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 71 | No | 32 | |
| Cardiff and Vale College cavc.ac.ukregister id Medr FE: Cardiff and Vale College; address from Medr Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 60 | No | 32 | |
| Coleg Cambria cambria.ac.ukregister id Medr FE: Coleg Cambria; address from Medr Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 63 | Gated | 32 | |
| Coleg Gwent coleggwent.ac.ukregister id Medr FE: Coleg Gwent; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | No | 32 | |
| Coleg Sir Gâr colegsirgar.ac.ukregister id Medr FE: Coleg Sir Gâr; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 54 | Gated | 1 | |
| Coleg y Cymoedd cymoedd.ac.ukregister id Medr FE: Coleg y Cymoedd; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 59 | No | 32 | |
| Gower College Swansea gcs.ac.ukregister id Medr FE: Gower College Swansea; address from Medr Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 72 | No | 32 | |
| Grŵp Llandrillo Menai gllm.ac.ukregister id Medr FE: Grŵp Llandrillo Menai; address from Medr Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 73 | Gated | 32 | |
| Grŵp NPTC Group nptcgroup.ac.ukregister id Medr FE: Grŵp NPTC Group; address from Medr Register (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 49 | Gated | 32 | |
| Pembrokeshire College pembrokeshire.ac.ukunreachableregister id Medr FE: Pembrokeshire College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| St David's Catholic Sixth Form College st-davids-coll.ac.ukregister id Medr FE: St David's Catholic Sixth Form College; address from Wikidata P856 (low confidence), not checked by loading it | 33 | Gated | 1 | |
| The College Merthyr Tydfil no website on recordregister id Medr FE: The College Merthyr Tydfil; Medr's funding annex gives no web address and no Wikidata item has this name | — | No | — | |
| Belfast Metropolitan College belfastmet.ac.ukregister id nidirect: Belfast Metropolitan College; address from nidirect (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 47 | Gated | 32 | |
| College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE) cafre.ac.ukregister id nidirect: College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise (CAFRE); address from nidirect (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 69 | No | 31 | |
| North West Regional College nwrc.ac.ukregister id nidirect: North West Regional College; address from nidirect (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 32 | |
| Northern Regional College nrc.ac.ukunreachableregister id nidirect: Northern Regional College; address from nidirect (high confidence), not checked by loading it | — | No | — | |
| South Eastern Regional College serc.ac.ukregister id nidirect: South Eastern Regional College; address from nidirect (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 64 | No | 32 | |
| South West College swc.ac.ukregister id nidirect: South West College; address from nidirect (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 70 | No | 32 | |
| Southern Regional College src.ac.ukregister id nidirect: Southern Regional College; address from nidirect (high confidence), not checked by loading it | 67 | No | 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.