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New College is a further and higher education institution in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. There are two main campuses, Queens Drive and North Star, as well as an Adult Learning Centre in Swindon town centre. The college offers qualifications for all ages: GCSEs, A Levels, T Levels, vocational qualifications, higher education and degree-level ...
The 1870 water tower is a Swindon landmark. The campus is on the northwestern edge of Swindon Railway Village, built in the 1840s for workers at the Great Western Railway's Swindon Works. The college is partly newly built and partly in a single-storey building of c. 1845 which was formerly part of the GWR School.
The college offered HNC/Ds and Foundation Degrees, through to B.A. (Hons) courses and a postgraduate programme. In August 2020, Swindon College merged into New College, Swindon. [1] The merged college is classed as a general education college. [2] Notable alumni include Reverend Carol Stone (1954–2014), who also served as a governor of the ...
The Dorcan Academy, in Swindon, Wiltshire, is a co-educational secondary institution that caters to students aged 11 to 16. The academy's curriculum is structured into three pathways: Foundation, Central, and Extended. Students can work towards the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) suite of qualifications at GCSE.
This is a list of current further education colleges that are publicly funded by the Education and Skills Funding Agency in England. The government considers colleges of the further education sector to be: "general FE (GFE) and tertiary colleges, sixth form (6F) colleges, specialist colleges (e.g. colleges of agriculture, or drama) and adult education institutes."
In 2005, in an attempt to aid integration after the 7 July 2005 London bombings, the local council began sending British Asian youth from Swindon (outside the normal catchment area) to the school. [4] Some of this group formed a gang which pupils and parents called the "Asian Invasion", who bullied other pupils. [5] [6]
St. Joseph's Catholic College (formerly St Joseph's Comprehensive School) is a secondary school in Swindon, England. The school opened in 1958 and was the town's first Catholic school, offering education to students aged 11 to 16. Today it remains the only Roman Catholic secondary education provider in Swindon, but is open to other religions.
Before it was named in 1639, Harvard College was often referred to as "the New College"; it is debatable whether or not this was ever a name in the usual sense of the word New College, Teachers College, Columbia University was an undergraduate teacher education college that existed from 1932 to 1939