| Established | 1944 |
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| Type | Further education college |
| Principal | Ray Ellis |
| Location | Nuns Corner Grimsby Lincolnshire DN34 5BQ England |
| Local authority | North East Lincolnshire |
| DfE number | ???/8005 |
| DfE URN | 130585 |
| Ofsted | Reports |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 16+ |
| Website | GIFHE |
The Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education (often Grimsby Institute or GIFHE, formerly Grimsby College) is a further and higher education college in North East Lincolnshire, England.
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It was known as Grimsby Technical College in the 1950s, administered by the County Borough of Grimsby Education Committee, becoming Grimsby College of Further Education in the 1960s, offering three-year HNDs (a higher education qualification) in Food Science, and also Applied Chemistry. It was based on Nuns Corner. The food science course involved six months of teaching and six months in industry per year. In 1966 it became Grimsby College of Technology, and was heavily involved with training people for food science careers; which was of considerable importance to the economy of Grimsby.
By 1967 it was also offering HNDs in Refrigeration Engineering, Analytical Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Refrigeration was taught on a site on Weelsby Street. It also offered courses in training for the British Merchant Navy. It hosted food science conferences. By 1968 it was also offering HNDs in Business Studies and Mechanical Engineering (refrigeration or environmental). Its departments included:
By the early 1970s, it was offering four HNDs - Business, Refrigeration Engineering, Food Technology, and Food Science (Applied Chemistry). Its HNC courses also were food or chemical industry based, to train technicians. By 1972 it had a department of Science and Food Technology, as well as Food and Fashion (which looked at catering qualifications, not the chemistry involved). In 1973 it was offering an Applied Biology HND (with options of Nutrition and Biochemistry). In April 1974, administration transferred to Humberside Education Committee, and more HNDs (briefly) included Data Processing and Marketing and Advertising.
By 1989, more arts courses were being offered than science, so the college name became Grimsby College of Technology & Arts (GCTA), then just Grimsby College in 1993. In 2004, in its 60th anniversary year, it became Grimsby Institute.
By September 1982, it was offering its same set of four food-industry-related HND through Hull College of HE on Inglemore Avenue in Hull). On 1 January 1983, the Humberside College of HE came into existence, through integrating Grimsby's HND courses with the Hull College of HE. At this point, it was becoming a full-fledged HE college. On 11 June 1990, the HE College, at Hull, became Humberside Polytechnic. Three of its thirteen sites were in Grimsby (its food and fisheries site), one being the College of Technology's food-industry-related HE courses. The plan was to reduce the number of sites to four by the mid-1990s: three in Hull and one in Grimsby. The grand plans and vision for expansion of the polytechnic extended as far as Lincoln, York and Scarborough. This would almost actually happen: except (conversely) Lincoln would be the centre, extending as far north as Hull; Grimsby would be jettisoned.
The former Humberside Polytechnic, which became the University of Humberside in 1992 (and essentially closed down in Hull when it became the University of Lincoln in 2002), had its Food, Fisheries and Environmental Studies site adjacent to Grimsby College on Bargate, which became the School of Applied Science and Technology with around 500 students. It offered BSc courses in Food Science. It offered a similar range of courses to that of the University of Lincoln's current site in Holbeach.
Grimsby College, as it was known from 1993, was known as an 'Associate College' of the University of Humberside, and offered a wide range of HNDs, not its former range of food-industry courses, although it even offered an HND in Viticulture & Vinification, which became the UK's first degree course in Oenology (wine-making) in 1994, run by Mike Grubb. It offered a Sports Science HND through Nottingham Trent University. The type of degree courses it offered were social science, business, humanities, and marketing & tourism. The former food department was not part of the college.
In 1999 it began to offer Broadcast Journalism and Media Production courses, and in 2000 it branched out to ECE Television, which became East Coast Media, which worked with GTV (owned by Granada).
In 2004 it became the Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education. Its connection (associate college status) with the former University of Lincolnshire and Humberside (formed in 1996) finished when this changed its name to the University of Lincoln in 2002, which rapidly closed most of its main Hull site down (now occupied by the Hull York Medical School), concentrating it all in Lincoln. Grimsby Institute was now separate from any partner university.
In 2006, it sponsored the Pyewipe roundabout on the A180.[1]
The Humber Food School was moved from Grimsby to Lincoln.[2] The Food Refrigeration and Process Engineering Research Centre (FRPERC) moved to the College in August 2009. Ray Ellis took over as acting principal from Prof Daniel Khan OBE in February 2010, who had been there for nine years. In July 2010 the Institute announced that Sue Middlehurst had accepted the post of Principal.
It is situated at the junction of the A1243 and A46, just north of the Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital.
The Institute's main campus is at Nuns Corner in Grimsby, and it has 12 branch sites. In 2006, the Institute had around 23,000 students.[3] The site has its own nursery,[4] fitness suite[5] and travel agency.[6]
The Institute's higher education degrees are validated by Lancaster, Hull, Sheffield Hallam, Leeds Metropolitan, and Huddersfield universities.
Graduation ceremonies are held in October at Grimsby Auditorium.
The College has definite plans to achieve University status in the future, possibly to replace what the Humberside Polytechnic formerly offered in the Humber region.
A £25 million university centre will open in 2011. Construction work began on 15 February 2010. Due to a Scarborough further education college's financial problems caused by its small size, the Yorkshire Coast College merged with the Grimsby Institute on 1 January 2010.[12] Merger proposals were first announced in October 2008. Both colleges are administered by the Yorkshire & Humber LSC based in Bradford.
A new Humber Seafood Institute opened in 2008.[13] The Sea Fish Industry Authority (Seafish) moved to the new site.
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