Residential adult education courses in Birmingham

Providing adults with an excellent learning environment for personal, professional and political development in a friendly and supportive environment.

Book an open day now Are our courses free for you? Supporting our students

Donate to Fircroft

Support our work in providing adults with transformative learning.

Donate

Student journeys

Andrew

Free Thinking, Level 2 Certificate in Digital Skills for Work and Level 3 Certificate in ICT Systems and Principles

Coming to Fircroft I arrived at Fircroft in 2023, with very little knowledge of what to expect.  However, once I settled in to the Free Thinking course, I found it…

Read more »

Kayum

Access to Higher Education (Social Science and Humanities)

Kayum joined the college in 2022.  Going to school near Fircroft he had always wondered what the place was like – how the building looked and what was down the…

Read more »

Adam

Award in Independent Advocacy

(published in 2022) Adam spent their childhood in and out of care and left home and the care system, at the age of 16.  With little support from anywhere they…

Read more »

Free Thinking Case Studies

Geraldine When Geraldine first came to Fircroft College she was very scared of what it would be like and had many negative thoughts going around her head but when she…

Read more »