In the UK college generally means the period between 16-18 where you do your final university entrance qualifications (A levels). People also do those at sixth forms but those tend to be attached to secondary schools, whereas colleges are separate institutions. Universities are where you get a degree.
Some universities here have colleges (in the sense that it’s a small community within the university) but it’s not hugely common outside of Oxford and Cambridge.
You also used to have the word ‘college’ attached to schools as a branding thing (to make them seem more academically rigorous) but the ones I know that have had that became academies
In the UK college generally means the period between 16-18 where you do your final university entrance qualifications (A levels). People also do those at sixth forms but those tend to be attached to secondary schools, whereas colleges are separate institutions. Universities are where you get a degree.
Some universities here have colleges (in the sense that it’s a small community within the university) but it’s not hugely common outside of Oxford and Cambridge.
You also used to have the word ‘college’ attached to schools as a branding thing (to make them seem more academically rigorous) but the ones I know that have had that became academies
My local sixth form is called the Sixth Form College and is not attached to a school! There’s a spanner in your works 😂