Wirral Metropolitan College is a general further education college and operates from three main sites:

  • Carlett Park Campus,Eastham
  • Conway Park Campus, Birkenhead
  • Twelve Quays Campus, Birkenhead

The college provides mainly vocational programmes and offers provision in 14 subject areas. It also offers Apprenticeships and the achievement and attainment of learners attending Wirral Met College has improved consistently over the last five years. In the 2009/10 academic year the overall college learner success rate was 87.9% against a National benchmark of 79.3%.

Birkenhead Sixth Form College is on a single site close to the centre of Birkenhead. The college offers courses in 14 subject areas, the largest being science and mathematics. The majority of learners are aged 16 to 19 and represent around 90% of the college's funding.

The majority of learners at the College follow Level 3 courses and in 2009/10 the College made improvements in their 16-18 Level 3 success rate performance which is now over 80%.