North West Kent College

David Gleed
Principal

The College runs a wide variety of academic and vocational courses for over 4,000 full-time students from two main campuses approximately 12 miles apart in Dartford and Gravesend.

The campus in Oakfield Lane, Dartford, specialises in Access to Higher Education, Art, Design Photography and Multimedia, Business Studies, GCE ‘A’ Levels, Media Studies, Performing and Technical Arts, Professional Care, Travel and Tourism & Management Studies. Gravesend’s Lower Higham Road campus caters for Art and Design, Construction and Building Services, Engineering, Hotel and Catering, Motor Vehicle, Professional Care, Refrigeration.
A partnership between the College and the University of Greenwich has contributed to the development of full-time Higher Education programmes and Foundation Degrees.

The College continues to place high importance on educational and business connections in and around the Thames Gateway area. Here, many of the 120,000 new homes to be built and 180,000 new jobs to be created over the next 20 years will be along the southern bank of the Thames, from Greenwich eastwards through Dartford and Gravesham to Swale.