West Suffolk College is part of the Eastern Education Group. It is a large general further education college in Suffolk that also serves the surrounding counties of Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. There are three large sites in Bury St Edmunds: the Sixth Form Campus, the University and Professional Development Centre and the Built Environment Campus. There are several small learning centres spread across the region, including at Haverhill, Sudbury, Thetford and Ipswich. These focus on adult and community learning. The college offers courses across a broad range of vocational areas from entry level to degree level. At the time of the inspection, there were just over 3,500 students on education programmes for young people, including T levels, of whom over half were studying at level 3. There were around 340 students with high needs, of whom around half were studying vocational courses and half were on pathways preparing them for adulthood, employment or independence. Around 1,600 apprentices were training in a wide range of subjects. There were around 2,500 adult students, most of whom were on courses preparing them for employment and developing their basic language and numeracy skills. The college works with two subcontractors offering a small number of health-related apprenticeships.