Middlesbrough College
Middlesbrough College, located on one campus at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, is the largest college on Teesside.
Admissions
It provides predominantly further education, but also selected higher education provision, and until 2008, existed on four different sites across the town. Relocation to Middlehaven was one of Tees Valley Regeneration's major redevelopment projects.It is situated just north of the A66 and Middlesbrough town centre, next to Middlesbrough Dock and the dock tower, and close to the Transporter Bridge and Middlesbrough FC's Riverside Stadium. The college is approximately from Middlesbrough railway station.
Student numbers during the 2013/14 college year were 14,232.
History and estates
Former schools
Three of the pre-2008 sites were those of the former grammar schools when run by the Middlesbrough Education Committee:- Middlesbrough High School – opened in October 1870 as a fee-paying school.
- Middlesbrough High School – opened in August 1874. A joint new building was opened on Albert Road in 1877, but the boys and girls were taught separately. The central Middlesbrough site was in use until 1960, and then moved to Marton Road.
- the girls-only Kirby Grammar School - opened in October 1911 on the corner of Roman Road and Orchard Road in Linthorpe.
- the boys-only Acklam Hall Grammar School for Boys – opened in September 1935 when the numbers at Middlesbrough High School for Boys outgrew the capacity of the buildings.
Acklam Hall Grammar School had 600 boys in the mid-1960s. It merged with Kirby to form Acklam High School, a comprehensive school, in 1968. This school then further changed in 1974 to Acklam Sixth Form College and King's Manor 11–16 School. The King's Manor School suffered a fire and moved across the road, Hall Drive, to share a site with Hall Garth School.
Former colleges
Longlands College of Further Education was on Douglas Street which opened in 1957, and at first partly used by the Constantine Technical College. It was near the junction of Marton Road and just west of North Ormesby.Kirby College of Further Education was separate and established in 1968 on Roman Road. It had departments such as Food and Fashion, Catering, Hairdressing, and Business Studies, and taught single O-level subjects. It also offered A level programmes in the late 1970s
Foundation through two mergers
Teesside Tertiary College was created on 1 August 1995 by the merger of Longlands College of Further Education and Marton Sixth Form College, and was based on Marton Road next to the James Cook University Hospital.Middlesbrough College was formed when Kirby College of Further Education merged with Acklam Sixth Form College, also on 1 August 1995.
From 1992, these two colleges had been funded by the Further Education Funding Council for England. In 1995, Teesside Tertiary College offered £1,200 for every person signing up for A-level course who had eight A grades at GCSE.
Merger and move to new site
Middlesbrough College merged with Teesside Tertiary College on 1 August 2002, with it now being spread over four sites. Since 2001, these colleges had been funded by the Learning and Skills Council for England. Once the merger was complete, planning began for the relocation to a single site at Middlehaven in central Middlesbrough. Building work for the new college building at Middlehaven began in early 2007. In September 2008, the four separate sites were eventually consolidated onto a single site with the opening of the new £68 million Middlesbrough college building.The Middlehaven site has since grown with the opening of new college buildings adjacent to the main building. MC6 & MC SPORT opened in October 2012, and MC STEM was officially opened by Professor Brian Cox in November 2015.
Former sites
Middlesbrough college's four previous sites were:- Marton Road
- Douglas Street
- Roman Road
- Hall Drive
The Kirby Campus now has 84 houses and 53 apartments built on it by Taylor Woodrow. The former Kirby Grammar School has become 21 apartments. The Longlands Campus has become 104 houses built by Taylor Woodrow. This includes the former playing field and sports hall.
Curriculum
Courses range from university-oriented academics to vocational education. Selected higher education courses exist by virtue of an indirectly funded partnership arrangement with the Teesside University.Alumni
Acklam Hall Grammar School for Boys
- Roland Carl Backhouse, Professor of Computing, University of Nottingham
- Duncan Hall, chief executive of the Teesside Development Corporation 1987–98
- Strachan Heppell CB, chairman of the European Medicines Agency from 1994 to 2000
- Air Vice-Marshal Robert Hooks CBE
- Adm Sir Michael Livesay, Commander of HMS Invincible from 1979 to 1982
- Colin Mays CMG, High Commissioner to the Seychelles from 1983 to 1986, and Bahamas from 1986 to 1991
- Alan Old, England rugby union international from 1972–1978
- Chris Old, England cricket international from 1972–1981
- Brian Tanner CBE, chief executive of Somerset County Council from 1990 to 1997.
Middlesbrough High School for Boys
- Robert Cant, Labour MP from 1966 to 1983 for Stoke-on-Trent Central
- Sir Fife Clark, Director General from 1954 to 1971 of the Central Office of Information, and former President of the Institute of Public Relations
- Commodore John Dobson CBE DSC
- George Elliott
- Sir Sadler Forster CBE, Chairman from 1960 to 1970 of the English Industrial Estates Corporation
- Sir John Watson Gibson CBE, civil engineer, worked with Pauling & Co. to build the Jebel Aulia Dam, and in the war designed the breakwaters for the Mulberry harbours
- Sir Denis Hamilton DSO, Editor of The Sunday Times, Chairman from 1979 to 1985 of Reuters, President from 1981 to 1983 of the Commonwealth Press Union, and father of Nigel Hamilton
- Sir Ellis Hunter, former managing director from 1938 to 1961 of Dorman Long, the main historic local steel company, and President from 1945 to 1953 of the British Iron and Steel Federation who resisted nationalisation, with Sir Andrew Rae Duncan, of the British steel industry
- Prof Chris Lamb, John Innes Professor of Biology, and director from 1999 to 2009 of the John Innes Centre at the University of East Anglia
- Marcus Langley, former aircraft designer for de Havilland in the 1930s who worked with A. H. Tiltman, and became Chief Designer at British Aircraft Manufacturing in 1936, who produced important work in the early 1930s on metal aircraft construction
- J. D. Mackie, historian and Professor of Scottish History and Literature from 1930 to 1957 at the University of Glasgow
- Horatio Pemberton, Chief Engineer Surveyor from 1957 to 1967 of Lloyd's Register, and chairman from 1966–7 of the Council of Engineering Institutions
- Prof Michael Peters, Professor of Diagnostic Radiology from 1995-97 at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School and from 1997-99 Imperial College School of Medicine, Professor of Nuclear Medicine from 1999-2004 at the University of Cambridge, and Professor of Applied Physiology at Brighton and Sussex Medical School
- Sir Edward Pickering, editor from 1957 to 1962 of the Daily Express, and chairman from 1970 to 1974 of IPC Magazines
- Arthur Puckrin fell runner and brother of Eleanor Robinson
- Dr Alan Robertson CBE, pesticide chemist, and chairman from 1981 to 1983 of the British Nutrition Foundation
- Ian Robinson, former chief executive of Scottish Power
- David Salkeld, Chief Executive from 1995-2003 of Arla Foods plc, Chief Executive from 2003-05 of Grampian Country Foods, and Chief Executive from 2005 of Symington's
- George Scott, editor from 1974 to 1979 of The Listener
- Cyril Smith OBE, Professor of Pianoforte from 1934 to 1974 at the Royal College of Music
- Paul Stiff, typographer
- Norman Thompson CBE, managing director from 1971 to 1974 of Cunard Line
- Bob Mortimer, Comedy Actor
Middlesbrough High School for Girls
- Gillian Hush, BBC Radio 4 producer, notably of Desert Island Discs
Kirby Grammar School
- Anna Raeburn, agony aunt and radio broadcaster.
- Professor Sue Scott, Feminist and Sociologist, Managing Editor of Discover Society.
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