Lowestoft College
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| Established | 1898 |
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| Type | Further and Higher Education |
| Principal | Jason King |
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St Peters Street Lowestoft Suffolk England |
| Local authority | Suffolk |
| Ages | Pre16 through close school relationships, 16-18, Adults and HE Degree provision+ |
| Website | www |
Lowestoft College is a Further Education college in Lowestoft, Suffolk. It is affiliated to University Campus Suffolk through which it offers a range of Higher Education degree courses. The College works with two school partnerships, North Suffolk and Lowestoft, delivering vocational training in Lowestoft and also at Halesworth in the North Suffolk Skills Centre. Adult community outreach provision is delivered in the Somerleyton, Beccles, Southwold and Leiston areas.
Records show that classes in science, navigation and astronomy were administered by the Town Council of Lowestoft in the late 19th century. The first Technical Institute was built in 1898 on a site in Clapham Road at a cost of £7,500. The site grew steadily for the next 40 years, developing a number of technical specialisms, together with courses in navigation and art. The Institute was damaged during enemy air action in 1940 and then completely destroyed in a second air attack in 1941. Accommodation was soon found for the provision of full-time instruction in Navigation at St John's Church schoolroom until the war's end. A School of Cookery was established during the war years and achieved great success.
Following the war, the volume of work reduced through the withdrawal of naval personnel, but also through a lack of accommodation. The Institute had become seven disparate hired centres. Moreover, development, possible in other areas, had been difficult within Lowestoft due its fortress nature in the war years where the focus had been very much on the training of naval personnel. Day release classes associated with industry were unknown.
1947 saw the first of the "new" buildings, opened in Herring Fishery Score and in Victoria Road, Oulton Broad. They accommodated the Engineering and Commerce Departments as well as a Building Department. The latter, as well as the Engineering Department, organised the first day release classes and the long journey leading to the new College had begun.
Throughout the post-war period the School of Art established itself, first in the old Morton Road School and then additionally in the Regent Road centre, where it flourished and soon joined the other departments, becoming an integral part of the new College of Further Education.
Negotiations for a new and consolidated site began in 1952 and the present site was agreed in 1954, finally opening in 1965.
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