Kirklees College
Kirklees College is a further education college with two main centres in the towns of Dewsbury and Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England.
History
The college was formed on 1 August, 2008 after the Dewsbury College Dissolution order [1] approved that the corporation of Dewsbury College be dissolved and all its property, rights and liabilities transferred to Huddersfield Technical College. On 1 August, 2008 Huddersfield Technical College changed its name to Kirklees College.[2]
Former colleges
Part of Dewsbury College is the former Wheelwright Grammar School for Boys. It had around 450 boys in the 1960s and was administered by the County Borough of Dewsbury Education Committee.
Structure
Dewsbury
The Dewsbury centre has three campuses in and around Dewsbury. Wheelwright Campus is often referred to as "The Batley School of Art and Design".[3] This campus is on Halifax Road, Dewsbury, about 200 yards from the main site.[4] Wheelwright Campus is home to all of the art courses, but is also home to sports and fitness courses, due to the large playing field on its grounds.[5] The centre operates an award winning Photographic course - BA Hons Contemporary Photographic Arts, a full time three year honours degree from the University of Huddersfield.[6] The course has a national reputation and has approval from the 'British Institute of Professional Photographers'.
Huddersfield
A new campus is being constructed off Manchester Road, adjacent to the River Colne, just outside the Huddersfield town centre, at a projected cost of £85 million, to replace the current New North Road Campus.[7][8]
Accreditation
The Leeds Metropolitan University validates the School of Art and Designs' flagship course B.A.Hons "Fine Art for Design", an internationally renowned and award winning course. Art, Design & Fashion.[9] Since its creation in 1998 by Eve Jones and Richard Gray, students have gone on to study at The Royal College of Art, won the Unilever graduate of the year award and many other national and international prizes. The course exhibits in London every year at Free Range at the Old Truman Brewery on Brick lane.[10]
Legal Action
In November 2010 the college paid £5,000 compensation in a private settlement to a blind student, Tmara Senior, after legal action was taken against the school, for bullying by a teacher and other students in 2008. Tmara Senior and her husband Wayne, who is also blind said that they think it’s important that what happened to Tmara shouldn’t be “covered up” and “forgotten”.[11]
Alumni
Huddersfield Technical College
Dewsbury College
Wheelwright Grammar School for Boys
- Richard Alexander, Conservative MP from 1979-97 for Newark
- John Dunning CBE, Director from 1955-72 of the Rocket Propulsion Establishment at Westcott, Buckinghamshire
- Robin Esser, Editor from 1986-9 of the Sunday Express
- William George Fearnsides, Sorby Professor of Geology from 1913-45 at the University of Sheffield
- Joseph Fitton, Chief General Manager in 1956 of the Midland Bank
- Philip Fothergill,
- Leslie Fox, mathematician
- Sir Marcus Fox, Conservative MP from 1970-97 for Shipley
- Larry Hirst CBE, Chairman since 2008 of IBN Europe, Middle East and Africa
- Prof Tom Kilburn CBE, worked with Frederic Calland Williams to produce the Manchester Mark 1 known as Baby in 1946, one of the first computers, and Professor of Computer Science from 1964-81 at the University of Manchester
- John Morrell, BBC producer of Children in Need and That's Life!
- Tony Nicholson, cricketer
- Donald Sadler OBE, President from 1967-9 of the Royal Astronomical Society
- William Senior CBE, Chief Dental Officer from 1947-61
- Air Commodore Edmund Stockwell CB, Command Education Officer from 1968-72 of RAF Training Command
- Dr Percy Walker CBE, aeronautical engineer, who helped design the Hawker Hurricane, and later was largely responsible at the Royal Aircraft Establishment for discovering that metal fatigue caused the first de Havilland Comet airliners to crash
- Eddie Waring, rugby league commentator
See also
- University of Huddersfield - from 1896-1956 also known as Huddersfield Technical College, then Huddersfield College of Technology until 1970
References
- ^ http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2008/uksi_20081772_en_1
- ^ http://happy-learners.co.uk/bm/news/index.shtml
- ^ "Batley School of Art & Design". Kirklees College. 2009. http://www.dewsbury.ac.uk/site01/Default.aspx?tabid=87. Retrieved 2009-11-15.
- ^ "Batley School Of Art & Design, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, Wheelwright Campus, Birkdale Road". cylex-uk. http://www.cylex-uk.co.uk/company/batley-school-of-art---design-15792998.html. Retrieved 2009-11-15.
- ^ "Sport". Kirklees College. http://www.dewsbury.ac.uk/Portals/0/PDF%20&%20Doc%20Files/Sport_HE_CourseLflt.pdf. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
- ^ "Colleges in Wheelwright Campus, Birkdale Road, Dewsbury.". kyotee.co.uk. http://kyotee.co.uk/uk-business-directory/Wheelwright+Campus,+Birkdale+Road,+Dewsbury/449/Colleges.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-28.
- ^ Huddersfield Examiner - Kirklees College gets go ahead to move to new £85m Huddersfield site
- ^ Huddersfield Examiner - Work officially begins on new Kirklees College site
- ^ "Art, Design & Fashion". Kirklees College. http://www.dewsbury.ac.uk/Portals/0/PDF%20&%20Doc%20Files/A&D_HE_CourseLflt.pdf. Retrieved 28 November 2009.
- ^ "Free Range - Europe's largest showcase of graduate art & design". Free Range. 2008. http://www.free-range.org.uk/cgi-bin/category.pl?yearID=13. Retrieved 2009-11-15.
- ^ Huddersfield Examiner - Kirklees College pay bullied blind woman £5,000 in private settlement (30 November 2010)
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