Yeovil College

Yeovil College is a tertiary institution and further education college based in Yeovil, Somerset, England. Its main campus is on Mudford Road, Yeovil, but the College also operates the North Dorset Skills Centre in Shaftesbury and the Construction Skills Centre, Lufton, Yeovil, not far from the Yeovil Town Football Club stadium. In conjunction with the universities of Bournemouth, the West of England (UWE) and Gloucestershire, the College also provides Higher Education, degree-level and professional courses at the University Centre Yeovil (UCY) on Preston Road, Yeovil.

Preceding the current establishment was a Science and Arts college of which was first founded in 1887 by appointment of Somerset County Council. In 1947 the college re-branded, with the help of their first principal, as 'Yeovil Technical College', before finally, in September 1974, becoming the location of an early experimental Tertiary College, of which Yeovil's was only the third such in the United Kingdom. The experiment was an attempt to see if it was possible to bring all vocational and non-vocational post CSE/O-level non-degree education under one roof.

The current college was constituted from the existing Yeovil Technical College, and the sixth forms of Yeovil School (boys) and Yeovil High School (girls). Two existing sites were used: the old Tech College site (between Ilchester and Mudford Roads) became the main facility, while the nearby Yeovil School site (on Mudford Rd/Goldcroft) became an annexe containing the Science Department, and Business and Secretarial Schools. Subsequent new building eventually enabled the former college site to be vacated and sold for housing development. Teaching is now concentrated on the site of the former Tech College.

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