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Havering Sixth Form College

college in Havering, UK

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ5683834 ↗
Source-derived summary

Havering Sixth Form College (alternatively styled Havering VI Form College), abbreviated as HSFC, is a sixth form college in Wingletye Lane, Hornchurch in the London Borough of Havering, East London, England. It is part of the New City College Group. Built on the site of Dury Falls Secondary School, it opened in September 1991, and educates full-time students from the ages of 16 to 19. The college offers a wide range of subjects, in A-level, BTEC and diploma formats, amongst others. The current principal is Janet Smith.

Courses

The college offers many programmes of study for students of different abilities and talents. Qualifications offered include:

AS level (Level 3)

A level (Level 3)

BTEC (Level 2, Level 3, Level 4 Art)

GCSE (Level 2)

ILEX (Level 2)

T Level (Level 3)

Extended Project Qualification

The International Baccalaureate formally used to offered however, now that is no longer the case.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Havering Sixth Form College” is college in Havering, UK. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Havering, Sixth and Form, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1991. For this dossier, Havering, Sixth and Form is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5683834. Authority coordinates are 51.561, 0.233. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from “Havering Sixth Form College” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.