Coleg Llandrillo Cymru
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| Motto: | To provide learning opportunities which contribute to individual development and the social and economic advancement of the community. |
| Established: | 1965 |
| Type: | Further Education College |
| Principal: | Huw Evans |
| Students: | 22,000 |
| Location: | North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Website: | http://www.llandrillo.ac.uk/ |
Coleg Llandrillo Cymru Other names is a multi-campus FE and HE college based on the north Wales coast (in the UK) with campuses in both Conwy County Borough and Denbighshire.
As of February 2008, the college has 5,500 full-time and 16,500 part-time students studying over 3,000 courses. [1]
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[edit] Naming
The current full name, Coleg Llandrillo Cymru, which is used in formal contexts in both English and Welsh, is Welsh for Llandrillo College of Wales. Until recently, the college preferred to subscript the last word, Cymru (Wales).
Previously, it was called Llandrillo College (or Coleg Llandrillo in Welsh) and is usually still known by that name. It is also known locally as the Tech, or just Llandrillo or college.
The college was originally called Llandrillo Technical College, but the technical was removed in response to the college's shift towards teaching academic as well as vocational subjects.
The current name, which was adopted around 2002, was designed to imply that the college is for the whole of Wales.
The base name Llandrillo derives from Llandrillo-yn-Rhos, the original Welsh name for the town, Rhos-on-Sea, where the primary campus is located.
[edit] Campuses
The main site or campus is on Llandudno Road at the westerly extremity of Rhos-on-Sea, bordering Rhos-on-Sea Golf Course and close to Penrhyn Bay. There are also campuses in Abergele, Denbigh and Rhyl, as well as the Llandudno Cyberskills Centre, the Elwy Centre (for business courses) at the St. Asaph Business Park and a mobile IT bus.
The college also offers courses based in over 200 "learning centres" such as halls, libraries and schools in the communities of Conwy, Llanrwst, Llandudno Junction, Llandudno, Llanfairfechan, Llysfaen, Colwyn Bay, Penmaenmawr, Rhos-on-Sea, Denbigh, Dyserth, Meliden, Prestatyn, Rhyl and St. Asaph. [2]
[edit] Facilities
The main Rhos-on-Sea campus has a book lending library; a drama theatre; a lecture theatre; a large public computer room known as the IT Workshop; a lobby (or foyer) area known as the Heartspace; a lounge area (including the students' union and security offices, and a shop and food outlet) known as the Student Lounge, and a Centre for Advanced Studies (also known as Aled, formerly F block and informally the castle due to the building's crenellation) providing computing facilities and a common room to full-time academic FE students.
The college offers a number of eating facilities. On the main site these include the Orme View Restaurant (with associated conference facilities), the Destinations Bistro, a self-service canteen (or refectory), a small self-service outlet within the Student Lounge and several vending machines. Denbigh site also offers the Caffi'r Coleg and Rhyl the Cafeteria. [3]
[edit] Courses
The college mainly teaches vocational and FE courses, although some foundation and bachelor's degrees are offered in collaboration with Bangor University, North East Wales Institute of Higher Education (NEWI) and the University of Glamorgan.
In the academic FE sphere, the college has been a pioneer in both offering the International Baccalaureate instead of the more usual A-levels and offering the recently created Welsh Baccalaureate alongside its A-levels.
There is a wide range of vocational courses (some without formal qualifications and others leading to BTECs, etc.) in areas including art and design, beauty, business, computing, construction, counselling, engineering, English as a foreign language, the environment, finance, hairdressing, hospitality, teacher training, interior design, office skills, languages, painting and decorating, media studies, performing arts, plumbing, sports, mathematics, sciences, textiles, aromatheropy, reflexology, photography, first aid, sign language, health, sociology, psychology and motor vehicles.
[edit] Students' Union
The college's students' union is a full member of the National Union of Students. The union's executive committee is chaired by a president who is directly elected by students at the end of the academic year and is paid by the college to work part-time in the union's office located in the Student Lounge on the main Rhos-on-Sea site. The president appoints the other seven executive members: the vice-president, the secretary (who keeps minutes and interprets the constitution), the equality and diversity officer (encompassing welfare issues), the higher education officer, the bilingual officer (to support Welsh language provision), the international officer and the entertainments officer (encompassing clubs and societies). The executive usually meets at least once every month. [4]
The union also runs a shop in the Student Lounge (but formerly in K block by the entrance to the library) with a paid member of staff from 9 am to 2pm selling stationery and art supplies to students, and provides some entertainment facilities such as a television, a football table and board games.
The current president for the 2007/2008 academic year is Irfan Khan.
[edit] Societies
A local astronomy society has been formed at the college by staff and students of the GCSE astronomy course. Llandrillo College and Coastal Astronomy Society has regular meetings and lectures at the college and in Llanelian Community Centre, observation nights at their 'observatruck' in Dolwen and field trips.
The college also has a Christian Union, which organises talks, discussions and film viewings. [5]
[edit] History
The college (which originally only composed of the main campus), was opened as Llandrillo Technical College by Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, on June 23, 1965. [6]
It was given the highest grade for any Welsh college by Her Majesty's Inspectors, Estyn.
In late 2005, the main campus buildings where each labelled with Welsh place or personal names replacing the existing block letters.
[edit] External links
- Official WWW site
- Official WWW site for international students
- Open Directory Project: Coleg Llandrillo Cymru (collection of links relating to the college)
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