Oswestry Tertiary College
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Oswestry Tertiary College came out of the King Street Institute. An Institute that started in 1921 to meet the demands of the local mining and railway industries. 1n 1958 it moved to a site in College Road, and became the Oswestry College of Further Education.
In 1978 Oswestry Tertiary College was created during the Tertiary re-organisation.
Oswestry Tertiary College was renamed The North Shropshire College in 1991.
At the end of the second millennium The North Shropshire College has 3 main campuses, College Road and Upper Brook Street in Oswestry and Talbot Campus in Whitchurch. and had signed a federated college agreement with Staffordshire University in 1997. At this time the college had trading subsidiary, called 'Mereside' to deal with the college's work with companies and a range of Government-sponsored programmes. including co-ordinating communication for the Government's " New Deal" initiative for all college in Shropshire.
A merger in January 2001 with Walford College created Walford and North Shropshire College
