Perth College

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For the girls college in Perth, Western Australia, see Perth College, Western Australia.

Perth College provides further education and higher education in the city of Perth, Scotland through a main campus, a network of learning centres and by distance learning.

It offers a wide range of courses, including nationally recognised qualifications like NQs, HNCs, HNDs and degrees, through its membership of UHI Millennium Institute, as well as work-based learning and vocational training through a specialist Business Development Centre. Degrees available include aircraft engineering, music, social sciences, computing, child and youth studies.

Most of the College’s students attend taught courses on the main campus in Perth, but learning centres across Perth & Kinross also provide local people in Blairgowrie, Crieff, Kinross, Pitlochry and in Perth city centre with access to many courses. AST (Air Service Training), which has been delivering aeronautical engineering courses since 1934, is owned by the College too. AST is UK CAA Approved and based at Perth Airport. British Airways, British Midland, Malaysia Airlines, Aer Lingus, Kuwait Airways, Air Mauritius and Air Seychelles have all had staff trained there.

There is a growing community of international students at Perth College. Its English language school courses are approved by the British Council and it is a member of English UK. International students can live and work in Scotland for up to two years after they graduate.

1 History
2 Current structure
3 Contact
4 External links

[edit] History

The College started in the old Academy building on Perth’s Rose Terrace in 1961 offering day-time further education (FE) courses in building trades, before expanding into a centre in Nelson Street (site of the Southern District School) soon afterwards.

Originally called Perth College of Further Education, it changed to Perth Technical College, then Perth College of Further Education and is now simply Perth College.

The first part of its Crieff Road campus — the Brahan Building — was officially opened on 16 October 1971 by the then Secretary of State for Scotland, Gordon Campbell.

Built on the site of the Pullars’ (of dry-cleaning fame) family home, the College cost £1.25 million and had 24 full-time lecturers teaching 700 students.

[edit] Current structure

Today Perth College employs around 500 full-time and part-time teaching and non-teaching staff and has around 7000 student enrolments.

Previously run by the local authority, it is now governed by a Board of Management made up of the Principal, staff representatives and volunteers from business, educational and political communities in and around Perth and Kinross.

[edit] Contact

Telephone 0845 270 1177, visit www.perth.ac.uk or e-mail pc.enquiries@perth.uhi.ac.uk. Postal address: Perth College, Crieff Road, Perth PH1 2NX Scotland

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