Southampton City College
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| Type | Further education college |
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| Location |
St Mary Street Southampton Hampshire SO14 1AR England Coordinates: 50°54′12″N 1°23′42″W / 50.90343°N 1.39512°W |
| Local authority | Southampton |
| DfE URN | 130696 |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 16+ |
| Website | www |
City College Southampton is a general further education college located in Southampton, Hampshire, England.
The college has around 1700 full-time and 5000 part-time students, and offers a wide choice of full-time vocational courses including art & design, beauty, hairdressing, media, hospitality and catering, IT, performing arts, construction, engineering, business studies, care, travel & tourism, childcare, marine technology, boat building and technical theatre. The college was inspected by Ofsted in March 2011 and was judged to be a 'good' college with 'outstanding' features.
The college teaches courses for students from 16 years old up. There are courses at all levels depending on the previous qualifications of the student. There are HNDs and HNCs, Access to HE, A levels, BTEC Extended Diplomas and many other types of vocational course to give students the qualifications they need.
The college also trains apprentices. All of its apprentices are employed by a local business and train some of the time at college. Major local firms such as Griffon Hoverworks have high quality apprenticeship schemes. It runs other training courses for businesses and other organisations such as the local hospitals and City Council.
It has been reported that in September 2017 cadets from the Warsash Maritime Academy will move on to the campus.
The Victorian frontage which dates back to the old St Mary workhouse (1866) is on the site of earlier almshouses which go back to the 17th century.
City College Southampton has its origins in wartime skill shortages and a recognition of the need to set up a technical school in Southampton. Operating from a number of locations; in 1948 the Education Authority took over the old St Mary Institution (or workhouse) to provide a more permanent home for the Technical School and following substantial building works and consolidation of a number of local school sites, it was opened as the Technical College in June 1952.
In 1960 work had begun on the construction of Southampton College of Technology and the Technical College was administered under this framework. In 1969, however, it became a separate entity and as such adopted the name Southampton Technical College. In June 1995 it changed its name again to Southampton City College.
City College has finished an extensive campus redevelopment programme. The first stage was completed in September 2004, which included the completion of a new reception and information & advice centre, new teaching block with learning centres for IT, Art & Design, Health & Social Care and Childcare. The second phase was completed in the summer of 2005 and involved the development of a new technology building which includes facilities for motor vehicle, brickwork and construction trades. In September 2009 an outdated block was transformed to provide industry standard learning facilities for 3D creative design, engineering, professional construction and electrical installation. This block also houses learning centres and a lecture theatre.
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