Derby College
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| Established | 2000 (merger) |
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| Type | FE College |
| Principal | Mandie Stravino |
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Roundhouse Road Derby Derbyshire DE24 8JE England Coordinates: 52°55′24″N 1°31′29″W / 52.92346°N 1.52474°W |
| Local authority | Derby |
| DfE URN | 133585 Tables |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Staff | 1500 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 14–99 |
| Website | www |
Derby College is a further education centre with sites located within Derbyshire (Derby and South East Derbyshire – Ilkeston, Morley & Heanor), England and the surrounding area. The college is a member of the Collab Group of high-performing further-education institutions.
Because of Derby College's central location and transport links it draws students from across the region.
Derby College of Higher Education split from Derby College of Further Education (FE) during the 1960s. Derby FE was primarily targeted at part-time students from engineering companies such as Rolls Royce and British Rail. This provision continued through to the 1980s until a major restructuring of industry and the apprenticeship system. The FE colleges then took on different types of students and evolved into new areas.
In 1989 Derbyshire County Council was responsible for education, and formed two Tertiary colleges, Wilmorton and Mackworth to serve different parts of the city.
This was opened on the site of the former Parkfield Cedars Grammar School, which moved there in 1969. It became a comprehensive school, then became Mackworth College in 1989. In 1997 there were plans to merge with the University of Derby, but these stalled in 1998.
The building has a 1969 glass-tile mural by the artist Alan Boyson, but this is now hidden behind a partition wall.
This was situated at the current junction of the Wilmorton Link and London Road on the A6. This was some distance from the town centre.
Is situated in the ground of Broomfield Hall. Built in 1873, it was originally the country home of Charles Schwind, and became the Derbyshire Farm Institute. The former students of Broomfield Hall alumni association is called – Broomfield Old Students Association (BOSA).
Is situated in Ilkeston in Derbyshire and began as Ilkeston College of Further Education on 14 September 1953. The official opening ceremony took place on 25 June 1954, the college became South East Derbyshire College of Further Education in 1966. When it opened, in 1974, a site in Heanor on the former Heanor Grammar School was an annex of the main college. Heanor Grammar School closed in 1976, it had around 550 boys and girls. Geoffrey Stone was the headmaster for twenty years and became Principal. In 2010 Derby College in Ilkeston was formed between the merges of three campuses of the college that where situated in Ilkeston and Heanor. The former Field Road and Cavendish Road campus were both auctioned off in 2013 and newly built campus was opened in 2014 on the grounds of the Old Magistrates Court in Ilkeston. In 2015 Derby College scrapped plans to turn the remaining Heanor campus into a new education facility.
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