Kirklees College

Kirklees College
Established 1 August 2008
Type Further education college
Principal Peter McCann
Location Waterfront Quarter
Huddersfield
HD1 3HH
England
Coordinates: 53°38′53″N 1°47′17″W / 53.648°N 1.788°W / 53.648; -1.788
Local authority Kirklees
DfE number ???/8001
DfE URN 130537 Tables
Ofsted Reports
Gender Coeducational
Ages 16+
Colours Aqua and Grey         
Former name Dewsbury College and Huddersfield Technical College
Website Kirklees College

Kirklees College is a further education college with two main centres in the towns of Dewsbury and Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.

History

The college was formed on 1 August 2008 after the Dewsbury College Dissolution order [1] approved that the corporation of Dewsbury College be dissolved and all its property, rights and liabilities transferred to Huddersfield Technical College. On 1 August 2008 Huddersfield Technical College changed its name to Kirklees College.[2]

Former colleges

Part of Dewsbury College is the former Wheelwright Grammar School for Boys. It had around 450 boys in the 1960s and was administered by the County Borough of Dewsbury Education Committee.

Sites

Dewsbury

The Dewsbury centre has three campuses in and around Dewsbury:

Huddersfield

A new campus has been constructed off Manchester Road, adjacent to the River Colne, just outside the Huddersfield town centre, at a projected cost of £85 million, to replace the New North Road Campus.[7][8]

The college's Taylor Hill Centre, on Close Hill Road in the Huddersfield suburb of Taylor Hill, provides full-time courses relating to animal care, land-based studies, conservation and countryside management.[9]

Accreditation

The Leeds Metropolitan University validates the School of Art and Designs' flagship course B.A.Hons "Fine Art for Design", an internationally renowned and award winning course. Art, Design & Fashion.[10] Since its creation in 1998 by Eve Jones and Richard Gray, students have gone on to study at The Royal College of Art, won the Unilever graduate of the year award and many other national and international prizes. The course exhibits in London every year at Free Range at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick lane.[11]

Legal action

In November 2010 the college paid £5,000 compensation in a private settlement to a blind student, Tmara Senior, after legal action was taken against the school, for bullying by a teacher and other students in 2008. Tmara Senior and her husband Wayne, who is also blind said that they think it’s important that what happened to Tmara shouldn’t be “covered up” and “forgotten”.[12]

Alumni

Huddersfield Technical College

Dewsbury College

Wheelwright Grammar School for Boys

See also

References

  1. http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/uksi_20081772_en_1
  2. http://happy-learners.co.uk/bm/news/index.shtml
  3. "Batley School of Art". Kirklees College. 2009. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
  4. "Batley School Of Art, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, Wheelwright Centre, Birkdale Road". cylex-uk. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
  5. "Sport" (PDF). Kirklees College. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  6. "Colleges in Wheelwright Campus, Birkdale Road, Dewsbury.". kyotee.co.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  7. "Kirklees College gets go ahead to move to new £85m Huddersfield site". Huddersfield Examiner.
  8. "Work officially begins on new Kirklees College site". Huddersfield Examiner.
  9. "Kirklees College – Taylor Hill Centre". Kirklees Council. Retrieved 12 March 2015.
  10. "Art, Design & Fashion" (PDF). Kirklees College. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
  11. "Free Range – Europe's largest showcase of graduate art & design". Free Range. 2008. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
  12. "Kirklees College pay bullied blind woman £5,000 in private settlement". Huddersfield Examiner. 30 November 2010.

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