Tower Hamlets College

Tower Hamlets College

Type	Further Education
Principal	Gerry McDonald
Location	Poplar High Street London E14 0AF England
Local authority	London Borough of Tower Hamlets
DfE number	211/8066
DfE URN	130418 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Students	6000 (14-18 and adults)
Gender	Mixed
Ages	14–no upper age limit
Colours	Red & Blue
Website	www.tower.ac.uk

Tower Hamlets College (THC) is a large further education college in London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. The college has four different campuses: the largest is on Poplar High Street, about 700 m north of Canary Wharf; the others are at Arbour Square, Bethnal Green and the TowerSkills on East India Dock Road.

Courses and specialisms

Tower Hamlets College offers vocational and academic programmes, including A levels, BTECs, International GCSE English and Maths, and GNVQ and ESOL courses.

The College faces increasing competition at sixth form provision from local schools in Tower Hamlets and underwent an OFSTED inspection in December 2013 which awarded the College good college status (Ofsted, December 2013) ^[1]

The largest ethnic group in the college is Bangladeshi (predominantly Muslims). The college hosts one of the Great Britain's largest Islamic society of College. Currently the Ameer of THC is Muhammad Ibrahiim.^[2]

As of 2009/10 the college had a 18,986 enrolments, of which 66% were adults age 19 and over.^[3]

Tower Hamlets College was featured in the book of The Islamist by Ed Husain, who was a former president of the Islamic Society at THC and explains the growing Islamic fundamentalism of Muslim students part of the Islamic Society during 1992.^[4]

History

The college is housed in the former building of the School of Marine Engineering and Navigation established by the London County Council opened in 1906.^[5] This later evolved into Poplar Technical College, which retained a maritime focus.

External links

Tower Hamlets College website

References

↑ http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/130418
↑ Taking action in college and community – QCA
↑ Raising Achievements – Tower Hamlets College
↑ Ed Husain (2007). The Islamist: Why I Joined Radical Islam in Britain, what I Saw Inside and why I Left. Penguin. pp. 52–60. ISBN 978-0-14-103043-2.
↑ "Poplar High Street: South side". British History Online. Institute of Historical Research. Retrieved 16 August 2015.

Schools and colleges in Tower Hamlets

Primary schools	Lansbury Lawrence School St Paul's Way Trust School

Secondary schools	Bethnal Green Academy Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate School Bow School Central Foundation Girls' School George Green's School Langdon Park Secondary School Morpeth School Mulberry School for Girls Oaklands School Raine's Foundation School St Paul's Way Trust School Sir John Cass Redcoat School Stepney Green Maths, Computing & Science College Swanlea School

Independent schools	Darul Hadis Latifiah Gatehouse School Madani Girls' School

Further education colleges	Tower Hamlets College

Universities and colleges in London

Education in London

Universities

University of London	Birkbeck Central School of Speech and Drama Courtauld Institute of Art Goldsmiths Heythrop College Institute of Cancer Research King's College London London Business School London School of Economics London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Queen Mary Royal Academy of Music Royal Holloway Royal Veterinary College School of Advanced Study St George's SOAS University College London

Other	University of the Arts London BPP University Brunel University City University London University of East London University of Greenwich Kingston University Imperial College London University of Law London Metropolitan University London South Bank University Middlesex University Regent's University London Richmond, The American International University in London Roehampton University Royal College of Art St Mary's University University of Westminster University of West London

Other university-level colleges

Further Education colleges

Sixth form colleges

List

Coordinates: 51°30′31″N 0°01′00″W / 51.5086°N 0.0166°W / 51.5086; -0.0166

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