South Cheshire College

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South Cheshire College

Established	1968
Type	Further Education College
Principal	Peter Swift
Location	Dane Bank Avenue Crewe Cheshire CW2 8AB England England Coordinates: 53°05′16″N 2°27′13″W / 53.087653°N 2.453475°W / 53.087653; -2.453475
Local authority	Cheshire East
DfE URN	130619 Tables
Ofsted	Reports
Ages	16+
Website	www.scc.ac.uk

South Cheshire College is a further education college, located in Crewe, England. The College is a single campus situated in a residential area about one mile from Crewe town center. The College is the sole provider of post-16 education in Crewe. It also attracts students from Nantwich, Alsager, Middlewich, Sandbach, Congleton and throughout South and East Cheshire. The College also provides courses for adults at a range of centres, including high street locations in Middlewich and Congleton.^[1]

History

South Cheshire College opened in 1966 and was officially opened by the Queen Mother in 1968. The engineers were the first to enter the College with one of the students being Tom Binkley who up until October 2009 when he retired was an engineering lecturer at the College.^{[citation needed]}

The College building opened in 1966 was an eight-floor tower with different departments on each floor. It offered views from the top floor of the tower right across the Cheshire plain, to the Welsh hills in the West and the Peak district in the East.

This building was replaced by a brand new single campus building, started in 2008 and completed in 2010. The new campus is only 4 stories high (ground plus 3 floors) but occupies a larger footprint. The design was driven by the requirement to retain an oak tree copse within the campus area, which now forms the centrepiece of the whole site, with a crescent-shaped atrium containing it on one side and a moat on the other side. The Crescent atrium is the main social space of the College, with a 3-story glass wall all along the side facing the copse, and different building wings radiating away from it. There are 5 buildings radiating out from the Crescent, including the Library building, distinctive with its orange and yellow external fins, and the Theatre building, a circular building that houses the 300 seat Centre Stage Theatre. The other 3 buildings are named East, West and North, based on the general direction each one faces. These house academic classrooms and vocational workshops.

South Cheshire College is open from 08:00 until 21:30 Mon-Thurs and 08:00 to 17:00 on Fridays, with the sports arena and Fitness Academy being open for additional specific weekend times. Bus services are available to people living out of Crewe and there are local train and bus services close to the main College building. The College offers a large number of courses and is renowned for the lectures in its engineering department. The College offers the following subjects with hundreds of courses to choose from:

A-Levels
Adult Community Learning
Business, Finance and Administration
Construction and Built Environment
Engineering, Technology and Manufacturing
English, Languages and Communication
Hairdressing, Beauty and Complementary Therapies
Health and Social Care
Hospitality and Catering
Humanities
Information and Communication Technology
Management and Professional
Performing Arts
Science and Mathematics
Sport, Fitness and Public Services
Travel and Tourism
Visual Arts and Media

South Cheshire College panorama – rear view of old campus

The College is a twenty-minute walk from Crewe railway station, and on the main road through Crewe, Nantwich Road, which has many buses running. The College is also a twenty-minute walk from Crewe Town Centre.

Future of the College

In 2006 plans were drawn and agreed upon by the governors of the College, and a new modern campus is to be built on the same site but located differently. All buildings currently in place are to be replaced, and the current main car park and some green land at the current front of the College is to be sold for housing development.

Plans for the new campus can be seen on the College's website.

The new campus was completed in September 2010, ready to open its doors to incoming students. During October 2010, the demolition of the old campus was put on hold due to the discovery of asbestos. The demolition was completed in the summer of 2011.

College Facilities

The College offers a range of services to students, and to local residents and schools. Such examples are:

Alumni

Tashi Dorje, tenor
Martyn Grey & Lee Burrows, film directors
Simon Radley, chef

Awards

The College has received numerous awards,^[2] including coming top in the 2004 Ofsted report.^[3]

References

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Universities	Bolton BPP Central Lancashire Chester Cumbria Edge Hill Lancaster Law Liverpool Liverpool Hope Liverpool John Moores Manchester Manchester Metropolitan Salford

University colleges	Royal Northern College of Music

Further Education colleges	Accrington & Rossendale Blackburn Blackpool & The Fylde Bolton Burnley Bury Carlisle Furness Hopwood Hall Hugh Baird Kendal Knowsley Lakes Lancaster & Morecambe Liverpool Macclesfield Manchester Mid Cheshire Myerscough Nelson & Colne Oldham Preston Reaseheath Riverside Runshaw St Helens Salford South Cheshire Southport Stockport Tameside Trafford Warrington West Cheshire West Lancashire Wigan & Leigh Wirral Metropolitan

Sixth form colleges	Aquinas Ashton Barrow-in-Furness Birkenhead Blackpool Bolton Cardinal Newman Carmel Cheadle & Marple Connell Holy Cross Hyde Clarendon King George V Loreto Oldham Priestley Rainford Roby Rochdale Sir John Deane's St John Rigby St Mary's Thomas Whitham Winstanley Xaverian

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