Motto: Shaping life through learning
Established: 1991
Type: Further Education (Access to Higher Education),(BTEC Diplomas LVL 1,2 and 3), (Foundation Degrees)
Principal: Gill Worgan
Chairman of the Governors: Norma Coulter
Location Hempstead Road Watford Hertfordshire, WD17 3EZ, Watford England
West Herts College is a college in Watford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. The College has campuses in Watford,Hemel Hempstead and Kings Langley.
Courses offered are vocational and apprenticeships. The College works with local secondary schools to offer entry to applicants of 14 years of age and older. Some school pupils may transfer their full-time education to the College in order to restart their education or to take some vocational subjects at Level 1, either as full subjects or as “tasters” (to judge suitability).
Tertiary qualifications (foundation and extended degrees and Higher National Diplomas) are offered, overseen by the University of Hertfordshire (UH).
The foundation degrees may lead on to full BA or BSc awards elsewhere, while extended degrees provide the entry requirements for a degree course at UH. In addition a number of stand-alone courses are offered to part-time students for personal development or leisure.
Mayor of Watford – Baroness Thornhill
Dorothy Thornhill has been the democratically elected Mayor of Watford since 2002. She is the first person to hold this position and was the first female elected mayor in the UK. In 2010 she became only the second Mayor to be elected to a third term
Trodai Martial Arts Academy
Founder, Sensei Robert James Burke, Trodai Master
Sensei Burke practised various forms of Martial Arts before developing the Trodai style, these included Boxing, traditional Okinawan styles Karate, Kung-Fu, Kickboxing and Tai Chi Chuan.
