[3] In April 2016 the college announced a strategic alliance with University of East London.

[5] Since 2006, the college has owned and managed the Fashion and Textile Museum, delivering a wide range of educational and training programmes as well as a full programme of exhibitions, including retrospectives from Zandra Rhodes, Kaffe Fassett and Orla Kiely.

In 2018–19, Newham College was the best performing college in London, with overall achievement rates of 90.9% [6] The college was awarded the Mayor's Construction Academy Quality Mark in 2018 and is now part of the Mayor's Construction Academy, a network of 21 training providers that have gained official recognition for providing the sector with suitably skilled workers.

Designer Lee Alexander McQueen took an A Level in art at West Ham Technical College before securing a Savile Row apprenticeship.

Newspaper cartoonists Gerald Scarfe and Ralph Steadman both went to East Ham Technical College.