Your world-class learning environment

We invest in our facilities, and we invest in you. In recent years, we’ve reimagined countless workspaces and we continue to offer world-class facilities that help you to achieve your goals, no matter what they may be. Use the following pages to discover everything about our specialist facilities and find out more about where you’ll be studying.

Learning Resource Centres

We have four staffed Learning Resource Centres (LRCs) across our Hele Road and Queen Street sites - we also have unstaffed LRCs and Study Hubs providing resources in our other sites. The role of the LRCs is to support students with their independent and group study. These communal areas are equipped with PC facilities, and some also have access to Macs. You’ll find a range of books in our LRCs, and even more eBooks in our online catalogue and on our SharePoint page. Our LRCs at Tower, Hele, Victoria House, and CCI have staff available to give you advice and support on how you can enhance your learning journey.

Cafes and Social Spaces

Our sites have great indoor and outdoor communal areas to help you unwind and grab a bite to eat between lessons. Hot and cold food is available, as well as spaces to bring your own food and relax with your friends.

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Hele Road

Subject areas taught here include:

Childcare, Digital, English, Foundation and Level 1, Hair and Beauty, Healthcare, Hospitality, Humanities, IB, Languages and Public Services

Our Hele Road site is the central hub of all College activities. Many of the College’s support teams are based here and students learning on this site have access to well-equipped Learning Resource Centres as well as a lecture theatre, classrooms and social spaces.

At our Hele Road site, the Laurence Building (L) houses industry standard facilities that help students to excel in their chosen profession. Hospitality and Catering students experience the real life rush of a commercial restaurant by working in our very own @thirty-four fine dining restaurant, which is open for business to the public five days per week during term time.

Our professional H2B salon and spa facilities, including a showcase salon Zeal, are open to the public and provide hairdressing and beauty students with the opportunity to perfect their skills in a wide range of treatments on paying clients.

Our Tower Building (T) is also on this site, complete with interactive classroom spaces and rooms for guest speakers and extracurricular live events. The Ted Wragg Building (W) is the home to our Foundation Learning and Support Faculty and offers dedicated support to our entry level and Level 1 learners. Learners in this faculty are also based at the Globe Centre on St David’s Hill and our Hub for Independent Living and Learning, off Queen Street.

Students on Healthcare, Childcare and Public Services courses use the Hele Building (H) as their hub. The glass-fronted building on the Hele Road site boasts inspirational learning spaces as well as communal social and independent study spaces. Our dental suite is being used for our Level 3 Dental Nurse Apprentices to do practicals and simulations. We are also developing a threebed hospital ward, plus a birthing suite, therapy areas and an independent living space for our T Level Health and Level 3 Health and Social Care learners. We will utilise these spaces to do practicals with our Level 2 learners to develop their skills and behaviours. Additionally, we have a nursery set up for our T Level Education and Childcare learners.

The latest addition to the Hele Road site is a state-of-the-art Digital and Data Centre (DDC), which was opened in 2021. The centre forms part of a wider South West Institute of Technology plan to revolutionise digital, engineering and manufacturing technology across the region. Complete with digital learning laboratories, stateof-the-art IT suites and interactive seminar spaces, learners have access to cutting edge equipment to help prepare them to move directly into industry or further study.

Subject areas taught here include:

Business, IT, Leisure, Sports and Tourism

With open classrooms that encourage debate and discussion in groups, Victoria House is a hive of activity for students and found right in the heart of Exeter.

Spacious IT suites are throughout the building, and we also have a Mini Data Hub with two specialist IT suites which include industry standard analytics software.

Sports Facilities

We have outstanding sports facilities at the College. There is a sports pavilion at our Exwick playing fields with rugby and football pitches as well as a full size 3G rubber crumb pitch and tennis courts.

In the city centre we have a high specification Sports Hall and fitness centre, Central Fitness. The Sports Hall consists of a six-badminton court space, four classrooms, a dance studio and a specialised sports therapy clinic. Central Fitness is our on site fitness gym facility for students studying sport or if you are just keen to improve your fitness levels. The gym has excellent equipment, including a range of cardiovascular equipment, a toning zone, free weights area and a spinning room. An annual membership costs students only around £50.

Haven Banks

Subject areas taught here include:

Outdoor Education

Outdoor Education students are taught at the Haven Banks Outdoor Education Centre; a worldclass, award-winning centre run in partnership with Devon County Council.

It offers a wide range of activities, including sailing, canoeing, kayaking, mountain biking, coasteering, climbing, abseiling, caving, orienteering, archery, raft building, team building and first aid, as well as a Powerfan freefall descent.

Subject areas taught here include:

Art and Design, Media and Performing Arts

The Centre for Creative Industries (CCI) is a haven for students with a passion for art, theatre, media and dance.

It has a dedicated art gallery, the Yard Gallery, which showcases the fabulous work of our students.

There is also a darkroom and photography studio with the latest equipment, a fully digital high definition TV studio, two Apple Mac suites and a broad range of media equipment to borrow.

The centre also houses the College’s radio station, which features industry standard equipment, allowing students to get a real taste of what it is like to work in radio.

The BBC’s studio in Exeter is also in our CCI, and their professional journalists use the multimedia space to create new content for digital, radio and TV.

Our creative students also get access to BBC journalists and even have the opportunity to pitch story ideas, work directly with professionals and attend masterclasses with BBC staff.

Centre for Music and Performance

Subject areas taught here include:

Music

The Centre for Music and Performance is a hub for our music students. It has the latest music and sound equipment and live recording studios. It sits in the heart of the city and is in close proximity to some of our external professional performance spaces.

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I love the atmosphere of the CCI – walking in it feels so creative and friendly and a place you can really be yourself.

Macie, studying Performing and Production Arts (Acting).

Subject areas taught here include:

Computer Science, Maths and Sciences

Our Maths and Science Centre provides specialist facilities that enhance and enrich those with a passion and talent for Maths, Science and Computer Science. There are eleven purposebuilt science laboratories, all designed to the highest specifications to facilitate inspirational and innovative teaching and learning. There is also a forensic science suite including a crime scene area, two large computing labs with breakout workstations and central teaching space, as well as four specialist Maths teaching rooms.

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Construction Centre (Falcon House)

Subject areas taught here include:

Our specific construction trade courses and Apprenticeships in Bricklaying, Carpentry and Joinery, Plumbing, Electrical Installation, Painting and Decorating, and Maintenance Operations (multi-skills)

Our Construction Centre boasts excellent facilities for students with state-of-the-art practical workshops and theoretical classrooms. Based in the Sowton Industrial Estate on the outskirts of Exeter, the Construction Centre has great transport links with the site accessible by nearby road, bus and train links.

Exeter College is developing a new centre of excellence to train and upskill people in retrofitting construction skills. By working in partnership with Taylor Lewis, APG, Exeter City Council, Devon County Council, and other key partners in the construction industry, the collaboration will help ensure the region’s homes and buildings are suitable for a low-carbon future.

Technology Centre

Subject areas taught here include:

Aerospace, Automotive and Engineering

Our world-class Technology Centre provides Aerospace, Engineering and Automotive students with state-of-the-art equipment and learning spaces. For those with a passion for Engineering our facilities include two CAD design suites with 20 computers running the latest industry software and a further enhancement of layering up and first build workshop, plus, electronics classrooms where you can simulate and design circuitry and two specialist machining workshops with lathes and mills.

Within our Advanced Manufacturing Suite, we hold our CNC (Computer Numerical Control) mills and lathe, as well as an integrated robot/CNC Cell. Students also get to use equipment that enables reverse engineering and rapid prototyping with our bank of 3D printers. Some aeronautical courses will also be taught at our Future Skills Centre, near Exeter Airport.

Our £3million Advanced Engineering Centre opened in 2018, creating a UK leading centre of excellence for robotics and virtual welding. The next generation of leaders in engineering are being inspired at the centre, which is a 780 square metre extension to the Technology Centre.

Within our Automotive section, you will find a 500 square metre workshop for light vehicles, this workshop holds eight vehicle ramps, tyre changing equipment, wheel balancing as well as vehicle alignment and air-conditioning charge and diagnostics machine. We also have a live MOT workshop, which sets our provision to emulate that found in the industry. Our heavy vehicle section holds three tractor units and one bus, enabling students to get hands on with all elements of the automotive maintenance sector.

Future Skills Centre

Subject areas taught here include:

Engineering and Aerospace, Construction (Civil Engineering and Design, Surveying and Planning) and Travel and Tourism

Our Future Skills Centre boasts excellent facilities for students with state-of-the-art theoretical classrooms and a scientific laboratory to test materials such as concrete crushing and drone operation to enhance the learning experience. The site recently saw the arrival of an Airbus A320 cabin trainer for our travel and tourism learners.

Based near Exeter Airport on the outskirts of Exeter, the Future Skills Centre has great transport links with the site accessible by nearby road and bus links with on-site parking.