Education
Educationally, the college boasts state of the art lecture facilities and specialised areas such as IT suites, a chemistry laboratory and hydraulics laboratory. The tutors are drawn from both the academic world and from officers serving in fire and rescue services around the country. Courses available range from Firefighter recruits through junior officer development to senior officer management courses right up to Chief Officer level. To support the educational side, there as a large administration complex and a library of fire related literature. Students come mainly from the UK but several countries such as Holland, Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Bahamas, Jamaica, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Cyprus, Libya, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, UAE and Gibraltar send students on a fairly regular basis. Prior to the current troubles in various parts of the world, students from Iraq and Nigeria were a common sight at the college, and Dutch students have been attending the college each and every year since 1976.
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