Level 3 BTEC diplomas are equivalent to A Levels. The inaugural BTEC cohort this year numbers 22, with 15 students in the Art & Design course and seven students pursuing the Performing Arts diploma.

In addition to the BTEC International Level 3 qualifications, the ACG Program Center is also approved to deliver BTEC Level 4 qualifications and A Level Art & Design qualifications.

A mother of a pupil, who did not want to be named, said her daughter, a BTEC art and design student at Paston College, was told her results weren't ready when she arrived to collect them on ...

A Southampton art student has sold her first piece of work. Saskia Vickery, a BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design student at Totton College, was exhibiting the tapestry as part of an show by ...