Edinburgh College
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| Type | Further and Higher Education |
| Established | 1 October 2012 |
| Endowment | £909,000 (2014/15) |
| Budget | £91 million (2014/15) |
| Chairman | Ian McKay |
| Principal | Annette Bruton |
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Academic staff
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594 (2014/15) |
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Administrative staff
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582 (2014/15) |
| Students | 29,427 (2013/14) |
| Undergraduates | 5,444 (2013/14) |
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Edinburgh, Scotland 55°58′41″N 3°14′42″W / 55.978°N 3.245°W |
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| Website | www |
Edinburgh College is a further and higher education institution with campuses in Edinburgh and Midlothian, Scotland. It serves the Fife, Lothians, and Scottish Borders regions, and is the largest college in Scotland. It was formed on 1 October 2012 as part of the merger of Edinburgh's Jewel and Esk, Telford, and Stevenson colleges. The college has four campuses, all of which were previously the campuses of the constituents of the merger: Jewel and Esk's Milton Road campus and Eskbank (referred to as "Midlothian") campus; Telford's Granton campus; and Stevenson's Sighthill campus.
On 17 April 2012, Edinburgh's Jewel and Esk, Telford, and Stevenson colleges collectively submitted to the Scottish Government a business case for their merger into a single "Edinburgh" college. The case estimated that the merger would come at a cost of £14.7 million, of which £7.7 million would be provided by the Scottish Funding Council.
The case proposed job reductions across the periods 2012/13 to 2014/15, forecast to eventually provide savings of £9.47 million per year at a cost of 237 jobs. The jobs cut were 60% (49 jobs, £2.88 million) from managerial staff, 17.5% (96 jobs, £3.84 million) from teaching staff, and 17.5% (92 jobs, £2.75 million) from non-teaching staff. Severance costs as a result of job reductions were forecast at £10.47 million.
The case predicted that the merged colleges would have deficits of £0.47 million, £1.5 million, and £3.74 million in periods 2011/12, 2012/13, and 2013/14, respectively, before having a surplus of £0.44 million per period in the following three periods from 2014/15 to 2016/17.
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