City of Sunderland College

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City of Sunderland College
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Type: Public
Location: City of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, UK
Campus: Urban
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City of Sunderland College is one of the largest Further Education and Sixth Form Colleges in the UK based in Sunderland.

The college is a multi-centre establishment, with sites throughout North East England. The main centres of the college are the Bede Centre, Hylton Centre the Shiney Row Campus and the new Usworth building.

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[edit] Shiney Row Campus

Once called the Shiney Row Centre, the Campus is the specialist centre for most of the visual and performing arts courses. The campus's ethos is strong on creativity, encouraging students to pursue their talents with the use of the large performing hall and recording studio.

It provides facilities to assist students with their studies, careers or with university progression.

The Campus is equipped with language and science labs, hair and beauty salons, large-scale computer sites and a brand new art and design wing. It has recently been awarded the title of Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) for its network academy that offers Cisco CCNA courses in networking.

This centre is currently home to the College's Higher Education courses, but this may change in the future.

[edit] Hylton Centre

Hylton is the main centre on the north side of the river Wear in Sunderland. For students wishing to train for careers in numerous occupations it offers real life learning facilities, including a £1 million hospitality and catering wing with fully equipped training kitchens, a bistro and a fast food outlet.

The Centre is home to Hyltons Restaurant and Conference Centre. Also there is a hair and beauty salon, which offers hands-on experience over the range of vocational courses on offer.

A recent refurbishment has brought new teaching facilities, workshops and preparation areas for construction courses such as bricklaying, plumbing and joinery, as well as motor vehicle and electrical courses.

A plan to build a new vocational centre near the Stadium of Light and abandon the Hylton Skills Campus is being considered by college management

[edit] Bede Centre

The Bede Centre is situated close to Sunderland City Centre, in the buildings of the former Bede School.

The Centre offers the students a 150 seat lecture theatre, equipped with audio-visual aids. These facilities enable the Centre to deliver business, business administration and computing courses.

The centre is also the base for Education courses.

It has the facilities to assist students with their studies, careers or with university progression.

In addition to the lecture theatre the centre has fully-equipped science labs and a two-storey learning centre with hundreds of computers, thousands of books, CDs and research materials.

There are plans in the pipeline to demolish the historic buildings and replace them with a modern facility.

[edit] Sixth Forms

The College has three Sixth Forms in partnership with local schools. These are St Peter's Sixth Form, which is currently in the Humbledon Building (Bede Centre), The Bede Sixth Form Academy at the Bede Centre, Durham Road and the Usworth Sixth Form College.

St Peter's Sixth Form College serves the Sixth Form needs of Sunderland North and currently has a partnership arrangement with Monkwearmouth, Hylton Red House and Castle View Schools.

Bede Sixth Form Academy serves the Sixth Form needs of Sunderland South and currently has a partnership arrangement with Southmoor, Washington schools.

In September 2006, Usworth Sixth Form College opened its brand new £10 million campus on Stephenson Road in Washington, Tyne and Wear. The campus also won the award for Public Sector Building of the Year at The Journal Landmark Awards.

[edit] Facilities

Each of the college's centres has its own Independent Learning Centre or ILC in which the students can have access to networked computers, borrow books from the library, or even just find a quiet place to read.

[edit] Famous Past Students

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