What are the Royal Colleges ?
The Office of Vocational Education Commission showed student attendance for the 2005 academic year as follows:Technical colleges 290,058 ; industrial and community colleges 137,377 ; business administration and tourism colleges 3,480 ; commercial colleges 16,266 ; arts and crafts colleges 2,214 ; polytechnic colleges 36,304 ; vocational colleges 89,703 ; agricultural and technology colleges 34,914 ; Golden Jubilee Royal Goldsmith College 525 ; industrial and ship building colleges 2,391 ; fishery colleges 1,510 ; agricultural engineering training centres 806 ; with a further 340,000 in private vocational schools .