The name was originally an acronym for South East Essex Sixth (VI) Form College.

The College in Thundersley opened in September 1972 and was designed to support 12 partner schools across Castle Point and Rochford districts.

In 2008 SEEVIC opened a new centre at the Icon in Basildon, named New Campus Basildon in partnership with Prospects College and South East Essex College as part of a government initiative to increase FE provision in the town.

New Campus Basildon as an FE centre was closed[16] and it became a Studio school in 2013, with SEEVIC as its main sponsor.

The judge commented that the statutory regime would be completely undermined if an employer, having failed to issue the necessary payment or a "pay less notice", could refer to adjudication the question of the value of the contractor's work at the time of the interim application (or some later date) and then seek a decision requiring either a payment to the contractor or a repayment by the contractor based on the difference between the value of the work as determined by the adjudicator and the sums already paid under the contract.

[20] A slightly later case, Galliford Try Building v Estura Ltd., confirmed this position in relation to interim payments.

This would not, however, prevent the employer from requesting a further adjudication in order to identify the correct value for the contractor's final account.

Student achievement and the standard of work were good and success rates overall 'well above national averages for learners from all backgrounds'.

[27] In 2013 a subsequent report rated the college as "Requires Improvement" because few students studying academic courses were achieving high grades, there were no consistent standards of teaching, learning and assessment, and the college's leadership had failed to maintain the high standards reached in 2007, with many of the implemented measures, particularly regarding the performance management of teachers, being ineffective.

Both students and the general public had access to a newly refurbished sports and fitness centre (including gym), Palmer's hosts a variety of events for children from local schools on its playing fields.

The school had a good record of students attaining places on the prestigious Prime Minister's Global Fellowship programme.

The location of Palmer's Campus is situated on Chadwell Road (B149) next to the A1089 just north of the A126 junction (Marshfoot Interchange).

[31] Basildon ITEC was formed in 1983 by Malcom Bridges, as a provider of IT training when PC's were in their infancy, and had been influenced by the then education minister Ken Baker.