--- title: "News: Liverpool" url: "https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/news/tag/liverpool" school: "Birkenhead Sixth Form College" --- [![Birkenhead Sixth Form College](https://files.schudio.com/birkenhead/images/logo/BSFC_FC_RGB(1).png)](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/) - [Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/birkenheadsixthformcollege) - [X](http://www.twitter.com/BSFC) - [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs0mV-sqmiu8V_19dpFY3Zw) - [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/bsfc_/) - [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@bsfc_college) [Apply Now](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/application-form) ![OFSTED](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/theme/birkenhead/img/ofsted_new.png) # News: Liverpool [![Image of Students Take Advantage of University of Liverpool Scholars Programme](https://files.schudio.com/birkenhead/imagecache/750x480c/news/Collage_for_News_&_Social.jpg)](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/news/2015-11-17-students-take-advantage-of-university-of-liverpool-scholars-programme) 17 November 2015 #### [Students Take Advantage of University of Liverpool Scholars Programme](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/news/2015-11-17-students-take-advantage-of-university-of-liverpool-scholars-programme) Twenty-six students attended a talk on University of Liverpool’s Scholars Programme and how it can offer them the chance of a guaranteed place at University… [![Image of Sixth Form College Students Complete Placements at Prestigious City Centre Law Firm](https://files.schudio.com/birkenhead/imagecache/750x480c/news/DSC_0364.JPG)](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/news/2015-09-18-sixth-form-college-students-complete-placements-at-prestigious-city-centre-law-firm) 18 September 2015 #### [Sixth Form College Students Complete Placements at Prestigious City Centre Law Firm](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/news/2015-09-18-sixth-form-college-students-complete-placements-at-prestigious-city-centre-law-firm) Four students from The Sixth Form College recently completed work experience at Weightmans Solicitors in Liverpool… [![Image of Former BSFC Student Leads Team to Victory on University Challenge](https://files.schudio.com/birkenhead/imagecache/750x480c/news/Robin_Wainwright.jpg)](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/news/2015-08-05-former-bsfc-student-leads-team-to-victory-on-university-challenge) 5 August 2015 #### [Former BSFC Student Leads Team to Victory on University Challenge](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/news/2015-08-05-former-bsfc-student-leads-team-to-victory-on-university-challenge) Former Student, Robin Wainwright, led The University of Liverpool’s Team to Victory against Oxford’s St Peters College on the top T.V Quiz show… [![Image of Students take part in The Royal Society of Chemistry Young Analyst Competition held at The University of Liverpool](https://files.schudio.com/birkenhead/imagecache/750x480c/news/bsfc.jpg)](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/news/2015-03-18-students-take-part-in-the-royal-society-of-chemistry-young-analyst-competition-held-at-th) 18 March 2015 #### [Students take part in The Royal Society of Chemistry Young Analyst Competition held at The University of Liverpool](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/news/2015-03-18-students-take-part-in-the-royal-society-of-chemistry-young-analyst-competition-held-at-th) Three students from The Sixth Form College took part in a Chemistry Competition at The University of Liverpool this month and had the opportunity to experience working in a state-of-the-art University Laboratory… [![Image of Sixth Form College Students Success at Bar Mock Trials](https://files.schudio.com/birkenhead/imagecache/750x480c/news/Photo_6_cr.jpg)](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/news/2014-12-02-sixth-form-college-students-success-at-bar-mock-trials) 2 December 2014 #### [Sixth Form College Students Success at Bar Mock Trials](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/news/2014-12-02-sixth-form-college-students-success-at-bar-mock-trials) The Sixth Form College’s Bar Mock Trial Team had a successful day at Liverpool Crown Court… [![Image of The Sixth Form College builds on China partnership by welcoming University teacher](https://files.schudio.com/birkenhead/imagecache/750x480c/news/Yan_Fang.si_outside_College.jpg)](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/news/2014-03-17-the-sixth-form-college-builds-on-china-partnership-by-welcoming-university-teacher) 17 March 2014 #### [The Sixth Form College builds on China partnership by welcoming University teacher](https://www.bsfc.ac.uk/news/2014-03-17-the-sixth-form-college-builds-on-china-partnership-by-welcoming-university-teacher) Wirral’s specialist sixth form college welcomed an academic from China as part of its drive to forge links with the East. 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