Glasgow Kelvin College
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Former names
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John Wheatley College North Glasgow College Stow College |
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| Type | Further Education |
| Established | 1 November 2013 |
| Chairman | Irving Hodgson |
| Principal | Alan Sherry |
| Location | Glasgow, Scotland |
| Campus | City, Easterhouse, East End, Springburn, West End |
| Website | www |
Glasgow Kelvin College is a further education college in Glasgow, Scotland, which was formed 1 November 2013 from the merger of John Wheatley College, Stow College and North Glasgow College. The College is named after the scientist Lord Kelvin as a statement of its intent to promote engineering and scientific education programmes.
There are five main campuses in the North East of the City and a community based learning network of around 26 centres supported by the College. The College was officially opened on Monday 4 November 2013 by Michael Russell, MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning. The Strategic Plan for 2014/17 is available on the College website.
The College is assigned to the Glasgow Colleges' Regional Board(GCRB) which is the regional strategic body charged with overseeing FE in Glasgow.
The Principal is Alan Sherry who was previously Principal at John Wheatley College. The Chair is Irving Hodgson who served on the North Glasgow Board prior to the merger. The College is seeking to promote Excellence, Progression and Enterprise through its curriculum. To support this work the College is the only Scottish member of the Gazelle College Group. This is a UK wide college grouping which seeks to promote innovative approaches to learning and teaching. This is supported within the College by the Empowered to Take Action programme.
At the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games the College won the contract to provide the alterations for all the volunteers, medal bearers and officials. Sound engineering students worked with the BBC to run a pop radio station broadcasting to the Commonwealth during the period of the Games.
The College won the UK Beacon Award for widening access to FE/HE for 16- to 19-year-olds in 2013. In 2014 learners at the College swept the Board at the ScotGem Awards winning all three top prizes. Learners were also successful in a number of other events including the Trades House of Glasgow annual awards, apprenticeship competitions in a number of construction craft areas and national photography competitions. Learners have won many awards in a variety of Building Engineering Services vocational areas including Heating and Ventilation. A College student was the first woman to win the UK Heating & Ventilation apprentice of the year in 2015.
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